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Hello everyone,

I'm feeling like quite the newbie right now. I've had my Pulsar 2 for about a week and half and have set up an SFP project for use with Sonar 3. I'm able to use and record the SFP synths just fine, setting that up was a piece of cake. I am however having a tough time finding a way to process audio tracks from Sonar with the Creamware fx plugins, and then bringing the processed audio back into Sonar for export in the final mix. For example, sending a wav of a drum loop to be processed with Creamware distortion. I'd like to do this without using an SFP mixer if at all possible.

I've read the appropriate sections in the manual over and over, but maybe I don't quite understand the roles of ASIO sources and destinations. I'm usually up and running with new software in no time, but man, this is driving me nuts!

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Don't worry, once you get your head around the concepts it becomes very easy.

The ASIO Dest would be the inputs to sonar which you probably have already worked out since you have recorded synths ok.

The ASIO source would be the Sonar outputs.
How Sonar handles these I don't know but in cubase and nuendo you send the tracks to "buss outputs". Maybe there is something similiar in Sonar. I don't use sonar so I can't help there but someone else will. The idea is to run the sonar track through the an ASIO Source channel, through your distortion module (in pulsar) and then through the ASIO Dest back into Sonar on another track to record the result.

Whatever happens between the Asio Source and Asio Dest modules in the pulsar environment is up to you. You could even send the sonar track out to hardware and back in if you want. You don't have to use a mixer if you don't want to.




<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: bassdude on 2003-11-13 15:31 ]</font>

I know there are others here with a lot more experience than I have with ASIO. I just bought Sonar 3 a few weeks ago so I'm still in the learning curve.

However, you should be able to route the track out through the corresponding ASIO source channel, through an SFP distortion effect (or any effect for that matter), then back into Sonar through the corresponding ASIO destination module channel.

Thanks! I'll try that approach tonight.

JtM

---- A quick update: routing through a bus in Sonar did the trick. Thanks again!!! Now I can finally get to writing some music...that is if I can stop toying around with all the synths and Modular 3. I'm having way too much fun!

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Joxer the Mighty on 2003-11-14 01:01 ]</font>