Having trouble sequencing Sonar5/Edirol FA66/keyboard
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:59 pm
Hi. Please can you help.
We want to start home recording and recently purchased a Carillon laptop (with Sonar 5 installed), an Edirol FA66 soundcard/interface-type thing. As a first step, we want to record some pre-programmed parts (drums; bass; piano) that are on our keyboard (Roland XP-60) onto individual parts on Sonar and then add guitars and vocals on top. We've tried to link up the keyboard to the Edirol, but I think we have set it up wrong because there is no sound coming out of the Edirol. And we can't seem to find the problem - we are presuming that it might have something to do with the sequencing (because the 'sync' light is blinking on the Edirol), but might be wrong.
If I set out the steps we have taken to set up the keyboard/Edirol/Sonar link, it would be great if someone could give us suggestions as to what we are doing wrong and/or what other things we need to do. What we have done so far:
- we have saved the song parts on the keyboard to floppy as a MIDI file (smf.1) and then loaded into into the keyboard so that it is ready to play.
- set the sync mode on the XP-60 to 'slave' (we did this directly by hand, by changing the settings on the keyboard);
- set the sync setting on the XP-60 to 'in' (so taking lead from the external source - ie when 'record' is pressed on Sonar?);
- On Sonar, made the following settings: set the sample rate to 44.1 and the bit depth to 16 (I think the Edirol manual suggests setting it to 24, but when we do this Sonar displays a message saying that it will return to the default setting of 16); set the playback and recording (Driver mode) to 'WDM/KS'; Dithering set to 'Pow-r3'.
- I pressed the Wave Profiler button (not sure what it did);
- linked a MIDI cable from the keyboard MIDI 'out' socket to the Edirol MIDI 'in' socket;
- linked a MIDI cable from the Edirol MIDI 'out' socket to the keyboard MIDI 'in' socket;
- Changed the sync setting on Sonar to 'Trigger and Freewheel (Best when sound card has a word clock inpuit)' because I think the keyboard manual mentions that the keyboard works on a Midi clock setting (as opposed to MTC).
- Attached a standard (ie non-MIDI) lead from the keyboard 'output' to the Edirol 'input2' (on the front of the Edirol).
- Pressed the 'digital' button on the front of the Edirol, but the 'sync' light starts blinking (which, as I understand it, means that the Edirol, keyboard and Sonar are not properly synchronised). Can't hear any sound through the headphones (plugged into the headphones socket on the Edirol) when I press play on the keyboard.
[Someone also mentioned that the keyboard, Sonar and Edirol need to be set to the same channel, but I haven't seen any reference to this in the Sonar manual. Is this true and, if so, what do I need to do to make this setting?]
Any help and top tips will be gratefully received as we don't know how to solve this.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
We want to start home recording and recently purchased a Carillon laptop (with Sonar 5 installed), an Edirol FA66 soundcard/interface-type thing. As a first step, we want to record some pre-programmed parts (drums; bass; piano) that are on our keyboard (Roland XP-60) onto individual parts on Sonar and then add guitars and vocals on top. We've tried to link up the keyboard to the Edirol, but I think we have set it up wrong because there is no sound coming out of the Edirol. And we can't seem to find the problem - we are presuming that it might have something to do with the sequencing (because the 'sync' light is blinking on the Edirol), but might be wrong.
If I set out the steps we have taken to set up the keyboard/Edirol/Sonar link, it would be great if someone could give us suggestions as to what we are doing wrong and/or what other things we need to do. What we have done so far:
- we have saved the song parts on the keyboard to floppy as a MIDI file (smf.1) and then loaded into into the keyboard so that it is ready to play.
- set the sync mode on the XP-60 to 'slave' (we did this directly by hand, by changing the settings on the keyboard);
- set the sync setting on the XP-60 to 'in' (so taking lead from the external source - ie when 'record' is pressed on Sonar?);
- On Sonar, made the following settings: set the sample rate to 44.1 and the bit depth to 16 (I think the Edirol manual suggests setting it to 24, but when we do this Sonar displays a message saying that it will return to the default setting of 16); set the playback and recording (Driver mode) to 'WDM/KS'; Dithering set to 'Pow-r3'.
- I pressed the Wave Profiler button (not sure what it did);
- linked a MIDI cable from the keyboard MIDI 'out' socket to the Edirol MIDI 'in' socket;
- linked a MIDI cable from the Edirol MIDI 'out' socket to the keyboard MIDI 'in' socket;
- Changed the sync setting on Sonar to 'Trigger and Freewheel (Best when sound card has a word clock inpuit)' because I think the keyboard manual mentions that the keyboard works on a Midi clock setting (as opposed to MTC).
- Attached a standard (ie non-MIDI) lead from the keyboard 'output' to the Edirol 'input2' (on the front of the Edirol).
- Pressed the 'digital' button on the front of the Edirol, but the 'sync' light starts blinking (which, as I understand it, means that the Edirol, keyboard and Sonar are not properly synchronised). Can't hear any sound through the headphones (plugged into the headphones socket on the Edirol) when I press play on the keyboard.
[Someone also mentioned that the keyboard, Sonar and Edirol need to be set to the same channel, but I haven't seen any reference to this in the Sonar manual. Is this true and, if so, what do I need to do to make this setting?]
Any help and top tips will be gratefully received as we don't know how to solve this.
Thanks in advance,
Matt