Cakewalk Sonar Tricks » sonar

Troubleshooting Midi Interface Devices

KCLau — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:11:43 +0000

Most beginners are stuck at the problem of getting sounds from their Cakewalk Sonar software, whether it is audio or midi. We’ve received emails and comments about troubleshooting this problem.

I think that’s why Cakewalk themselves created a video tutorial specifically to tackle this trouble faced by mostly beginners, or new Sonar users.

In this video, you will find out how to:

look for the drivers, midi and audio devices installed on your computers
rename the devices with easy friendly name
setting up controller/surface
explanation of ACT (Active Control Technology)and WAI (Where Am I)

Music Sequencing with Cakewalk Sonar

KCLau — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:23:23 +0000

Sonar is a very useful music sequencer if you are going to work on your music consist of audio and MIDI. Some softwares are strong at the audio part, but lack many useful MIDI features.

If you’ve just got a copy of Cakewalk Sonar or considering to get one, watch these videos to get started recording some tracks.

This video tutorial series is produced by maskerade45.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Want to learn more about music arrangement, here is a link for your reference:

How to arrange music (easy guide)

How to Create a Beat with Sonar 8

KCLau — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:43:23 +0000

This series of videos is created by Maskerade from www.mlifesoul.com

Maskerade shows you his computer screen how he created a beat with catchy rhythm using Cakewalk Sonar 8. This tutorial is divided into three parts. Watch all the videos below:

Sonar Matrix View Tutorial Video

KCLau — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:04:36 +0000

The Matrix view is the new and exciting feature of Sonar.
You can trigger MIDI and audio loops.
I think the Matrix view has some similarity with Ableton Live kind of sequencing environment.

You can simply drag and drop any audio and MIDI loops in the matrix cell. Then you can trigger the playback for the entire column or row.

After arranging the cells accordingly, you can record the sequence while playback by altering the triggers.

This will be very useful for mixing artist, especially in the dance and trance genre.

I am getting a feeling that Sonar is going to dominate the computer music sequencing world.
More to come!

The funny video of Cakewalk Sonar 8.5 Upgrade

KCLau — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:28:46 +0000

Don’t you read the Cakewalk Forum???
Haha .. this conversation would make you laugh.

How to modify loop slices in Cakewalk Sonar

KCLau — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:15:03 +0000

Ever since Sonar 4.0, the audio loop editor is capable of tweaking individual slices of an audio loop.

This video shows you how to use the pitch envelope, pan and volume envelope to modify the property of different slices in a loop. Thus, a mono sounding loop can be changed to a stereo one just by using the pan envelope. If you have a musical loop that need some note-tweaking and chord altering, the loop editor comes handy!