Not fussed if you like the track, tear it to shreds, looking for productive constructive criticism (and potentially praise!) in regards to the mixdown.

Thanks in advance

I have taken a copy of Sonar 5 from a friend of mine ( a producer ). And I have just installed it. And the only thing I checked out was the synths as you can think. But the synths just won't sound :( I've been trying to play Roland Groove but as I said it won't sound when play with my MIDI keyboard or the keyboard of the laptop itself. I've checked the manual but I couldn't figure it out.

hello all :)

which is the best soft synthesizer around? and why?

This may be a jaded topic, but here I go anyway.
I'm thinking of buying the new Virus TI Polar, it costs big bucks.
I'm interested to hear if people think its worth spending so much on a hardware unit ( that will be obsolete sooner than you would like) or can the same sound s be achieved thru soft synths ( which are usually upgradeable).

i've just discovered i have this synth on my computer if anyone know's anything about it or know's what i can do with it i would like to know as maybe i can use it for midi thanks

Hey everyone! New to the forum, so I thought I'd lob a softball out there...

...or not...
:D

If I'm using soft synths and sampled sounds, does the soft synth software actually make any use of my sound card or does it generate the sounds totally independent of the sound card?

If they are independent, does it matter if I have a crap sound card?

Hi,

I am working on a project with some folks where we're using midi horns and strings along with live bass, drums, keys and three vocalists.

I have recorded my live drums along with the midi tracks and the more I listen to it, the more "cheezy" the horn and string parts sound.
I'm using SONAR XL and a Korg X5RD module.

I'm in an area that I don't know too much about. Integrating a soft synth into ACID 4.0. I think I've got everything installed just fine. The problem is serious latency. I'd read about this, but figured it might not be too bad... wrong. The setup is...

PIII 733 Mhz
Windows 98me
AudiomediaIII card
Acid 4.0
Sampletank

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Do I even need to remind you guys that I am new to all of this any more?

Here are my questions. Sonar up and running on nice DAW with 2 Q10's. The Q10's have MIDI ports, the keyboard we have is a casio home piano type with two 1/4" outs (L/R) and a midi in and a midi out.