Sonar - Tips and Tricks #1

0:00 Recording with a metronome to keep timing on the grid.
01:28 How to make session drummer play on a MIDI track
03:08 Freeze Synth - how to and why
04:05 A bit about fades and cross fades.
05:04 FX - set up a reverb in the FX Bin of an audio track and also in the FX send 1 bus

Category:

Music

Tags:

• cakewalk
• roland
• sonar
• drag
• drop
• copy
• paste
• session
• drummer
• drums
• fade
• crossfade
• Fade
• metronome
• fx
• reverb
• send
• bus
• bin

[declan32001]

Thanks so much for doing these. So many of us just do what we do, and these concise vids inevitably remind me I should be more proficent and efficent.

Single core P4 3.0 in Sonar 8? Very impressive. You have a real knack for this.

[dustypuppy]

@declan32001

Thank you very much :)

[Verdelufe]

@dustypuppy Hi ! you seems to be the best tutorial for Sonar at YT, I have a question about a song I made but a producer who complained about a trombone at

the end (final cut), he found too square, he put 10 seconds of trombone and 15 of fade out, there are 45 sec.available of trombone. He does not want to change and send it by e-mail. Can I change to 30 seconds of trombone playing and 15 seconds of fade out ? using the original CD ? and create a new CD. THANKS !

[dustypuppy]

@Verdelufe

I think you can do that, if I understand your question. If you have a CD with the entire long version with 45 seconds of trombone, here is what to do.

By using Windows Media Player, you can rip the song from the CD and store it on your computer. Next, open SONAR and import the audio to an audio track.

Then, using Automation on the MASTER track in Sonar, create a volume envelope and make it fade out as you wish.

Finally, export audio and burn a new CD

good luck

[Verdelufe]

@dustypuppy One more question, I have the CD finished with 10 sec. of trombone, 15 sec, of fade out and 20 erased. Does it get destroyed and I have

to get the original song with 45 sec at the end of trombone to insert it.

Or I used the CD with 10 sec. of trombone and change to 30 sec. of trombone.

and save and make a new CD. The fade out of 10 sec. can be moved to time

frame I wanted. I am staringt now are you confused?

[dustypuppy]

@Verdelufe That doesn't sound good :(

I think you're going to need the original version.

You see, you can extract it from a CD and trim it smaller, but you cannot get back what was erased.

I hope this helps

[Verdelufe]

@dustypuppy  OK ! I got you now.

[Verdelufe]

@dustypuppy  Thanks a lot !!!

[chizulch4]

This is a great video. Straight forward, to the point, and clear. No stupid buzzwords, egotistical mugging the camera, or annoying editing. Puts a lot of other "help" videos to shame. Congrats to dustypuppy.

[KBmediaOnline]

I searched for months trying to figure out how to overlay a clip without it chopping the other one on the bottom. I found the solution in his video.Thank you so much!!!

[Mustanghands]

Interesting. I noticed you installed the tts1 onto Track 5, then you opened the Session Drummer, and you put the groove clip on Track 5. So I am guessing you have to install a softsynth with a rythm bank on the track before you here SessionDrummer? Is that right?