NAMM Demo Building a song and mixing using SONAR 8.5 and the VS-700

Just Posted on the Cakewalk YouTube channel is one of my NAMM demos. It takes you through building up a song using Cori Yarckin’s single “Everything You Said”. Topics covered are Session Drummer 3, Guitar Rig, True Pianos, VS-64 and mixing using the VS-700.

Enjoy!

Using Pentagon as a vocoder

Pentagon is one of the included soft synths in SONAR.  It is a great analog modelling synth and perfect for learning how to create sounds on a synth. You can use it in other ways too, like a vocoder. The above video takes you through how to do just that.

Here are the important points:

• Insert Pentagon as an audio effect on the audio track you want to vocode.
• Route a MIDI track to Pentagon and either play in the MIDI data (via input monitoring) or have a clip or clips int he track.
• Finally click on the Pentagon logo on the synth and turn voice modulation on.

Have fun!

-Robin

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SONAR Home Studio

From NAMM 2009. Here’s a demo I did on SONAR Home Studio the intro to the video covers the new USB MIDI and Audio interfaces available from Cakewalk. The video takes you through recording a guitar with the UA-1G, adding drum tracks with Studio Instruments, adding beats with the loop explorer and working with soft synths.

-Robin

SONAR 7 Masterclass

I made this video while on the road last year. A lot of people have found it useful so I have added it to the blog.

-Robin

Turning the in-line PRV on and off in SONAR Home Studio 7

A short 30sec video that shows how to turn the in-line Piano Roll View (PRV) on and off in SONAR Home Studio. Once the video is playing turn on HD for better quality (requires faster connection).

-Robin

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VS-700 video – Channel locking and Channel branch

Channel Locking and Channel branch-Brandon Ryan

Cakewalk’s Brandon Ryan displays SONAR V-Studio 700′s “Smart Fader Technology” with the new channel locking and channel branching features. These new tools assist the user in utilizing the faders on the console to best control their mixes and speed up their workflow.