Cakewalk Sonar Signal Routing for VST Generator and Synths

greetings oh this is gonna be a tutorial on some of the more complex MIDI and audio routing in cakewalk sonar I'm have the Platinum version but I think this will also work with ban Labs version so some of this can be very confusing because it depends on what order you do things in the results can actually change depending on what order you do things in so for example I have a blank project right here so I'm going to use spiral as the example spiral is a generative sequencer it generates MIDI signals but no sound so I'm going to add a track for spiral and then I'm going to set that so that it another synthesizer will be capturing that MIDI data and then playing back so I'm going to do several examples of that okay so first of all there is a way that you can go down here to the lift the the synth rack and at a dicent this way but unless you put it in a track that's existing it won't function properly so you really have to do at a track first I'm gonna right-click here and insert an instrument alright and then I'm going to select reactor 5 and I'm going to click on create a folder and a split the instrument track and that will give us the synthesizer and at least one MIDI track that we can deal with and that will help with this setup all right so it's gonna open up reactor and then I've already got the menu open here to add spiral again a generative MIDI sequencer ok so again it's it's not sending sound it's just MIDI data so if I if I press playback on my track you can see that it's doing something but you can't hear it because again it's just generating MIDI notes and MIDI data so now there is a way that you can actually plug in one of the reactor synthesizers and work with spiral within reactor itself and there's several tutorials on how to do that on the on the YouTube already so this is just specifically for cakewalk and attaching it to different synthesizers so now we've we've added our generator now we want to add a synthesizer so I'm gonna just start with the insert instrument and I'm just gonna use the stock cakewalk TTS synth here okay now if I just press play nothing happens we don't hear anything let me pin this here and I'll pin the other one in reactor back up here so that we can see that okay so there's something happening but again there's no sound generating and why is that well we got to make sure that we go down here and we check since properties for reactor okay and then we want to make sure we enable MIDI outputs now we've enabled MIDI output so now it now we know that we've enabled that it's checked okay and now we have to set cakewalk TTS to accept the MIDI data from reactor so this is the this is the instrument track and then this is the sub track that created the MIDI Channel so we want to set the input right here instead of my MIDI controller I want to set it to reactor and like you could set it to one specific channel okay but I just set it to Omni and now we should hear something [Music] okay so that's the quickest and easiest way to get spiral working with an external synth I will do that with several other examples of course we can do it a different order in this case so this time I'll add the synth first and then I'll add the midi data so let's do C and an instrument let's do my m1 okay so I'm gonna open the m1 synthesizer again create folder and split the instrument track again just makes it easier to have it there so that you can plug the MIDI data into it okay I'm just gonna push that off to my other screen for a second so I have some space and then I'm gonna insert instrument again let's do transition this is a different one so this is another it's another MIDI generator okay this one I'm just gonna use one of the defaults here so this is a little free one and these little it has this matrix and the cells as these things hit the walls of the cells it will generate a MIDI signal you can set the notes the tones up here you have full control it's really kind of cool so it's a free for utility here transition it's really kind of cool alright so again I don't have this yet hooked up properly because again we can see it's doing something it's moving and these are the signals it's generating but we haven't enabled it to send the signals out so go down a transition one here naval MIDI output ok so we've done that and now we're gonna go to our Korg and one MIDI track and we need to set the input tooth to capture the data okay and so there we go different aspects of capturing in MIDI sequencers that are generating their own little sequences and spiral is really cool there's some other ones in the reactor library and there's other free ones out there as well different that are separate from native instruments and and free that you can experiment with just to kind of generate some different ideas in your pieces alright I think I will do the vocoder as a separate video altogether since it's involving both routing MIDI and audio signals so you can tune in for that one bye bye

Channel: Craig Gardner

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Length: 6min 0sec (360 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 27 2020