Sonar 8.5 drum
Could come up in the mix, I suspect, but then I really just wanted to have the experience of putting in a line that ran counter-points against the static chord progression - that's right! I cheated, musically. Put that through the reverb after EQ'ing out some of the low and middle. Piano - The included Amber Piano Modeling Plug-in - Lovely, slightly more editable than Session Drummer 3, but usable, none-the-less. Quantized - Swing = 1% - I'm left handed and was STILL having problems nailing it. I ran it through EQ and then compression. Still - I didn't really need echo for the bass-line and apart from that little glitch, it did the job, nicely (even though you're probably thinking the bass-line is a little too loud).
Sonar 8.5 drum pro#
The bass-line - My old friend, Dimension Pro has had a makeover to 64-bit - even though when I tried to turn on her echo, fumbling through the presets it completely killed the sound on EVERYTHING in Sonar. Quantized - Swing = 50% - like that matters - I quantized them to the measure. The GUI is more functional than pretty but it still gives me the tingles. The channel EQ has a lovely feeling of precision about it. The panning pad comes from Zeta (I love this one - it's tasty!) and a preset I ran through its double filters and a very slow oscillator, run through some minor shelving on the channel EQ, then processed with the Channel Tools stereo imaging plug-in after I ran it through some compression (itself a marvel of graphic functionality and precision). Curious bastard had problems understanding MIDI note On's after the MIDI note Off's should have been sent when that feature was employed. Put it through some echo, I did, but that's the stock sound - no edits - even though I did experiment with the step modulation envelope a little. Included for up-selling to its actually working version, is Rapture32LE - That plug-in is responsible for the little formant sine-wave squiggling, with a sometimes appalling lack of regard for key, throughout my little tune. The Vintage Channel Strip is a useful tool, definitely. I put the kick drums through the included Vintage Channel Strip, compressing it and then shelving the bass. Love those Hi-Hats in my song? Those came from session drummer - I think they're lovely. I am hopefully missing something, skill and experience wise, about Session Drummer 3 but my current impression of it is that it is far too pre-fab-centric with only superficial editing of its parameters. I wound up downloading a couple of plug-ins, from KVR, in order to make the kick-drums. Oh, and Roland - I know you acquired cakewalk but Groove-synth and that other crap-tastic thing with the mixing board - they don't work (High aliasing, low functionality on my computer) but having had experience with Groove-synth, already - IT ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SUCKS - even though I've used it on a couple of songs for little odd jobs like doubling a bass-line or adding percussion. Getting Sonar to work with the HP factory soundcard (Realtek HD) in WDM Mode proved to be so jarring that I wound up down-loading ASIO4ALL, and apart from a couple of quirks (click-track comes from the headphone jack ONLY - and ONLY the click track? I have to open the audio options dialogue box and then the ASIO profile box to get sound from Sonar - and I can't expect to hear sound from ANY other application including YouTube, once Sonar has been engaged - even if it's since been turned off.), I'll hopefully be ironing out with a swift attack on the learning curve, the overall quality of this DAW far surpasses anything I've had the pleasure to work with. The included percussion processor has no face - no GUI. Shows up in the directory but errors out.
The included soft-synth, Pentagon - no show.
Sonar 8.5 drum windows 7#
Okay - the bad part is that not everything that's supposed to work, works, and having a system with nothing less than the recommended specs, I am a little disappointed, but then Sonar, I'm guessing, has only recently acquired Windows 7 support. First times are always a little awkward as tension fills the room and her hesitation yields to the sincerity of the moment.
Sonar 8.5 drum free#
Here is the first song: - feel free to rip it to shreds. I have fallen madly in love with my new buggy beast. I have happily made the switch from Project 5 to Sonar 8.5. Sonar 8.5 - A Love Story - TranceAddict Forums