Soft Synth Volume Crash!

guitarmandanp · 05-22-2010, 01:28 AM

thanks for your reply. don't have dimension-should I? at this point i got the synths back up to volume by changing the output on each synth channel in sonar from "master" to "stereo asio fw-1884 analog 1" which is the interface. always was good in master just don't understand!

Freebase Dali · 05-22-2010, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by guitarmandanp

thanks for your reply. don't have dimension-should I? at this point i got the synths back up to volume by changing the output on each synth channel in sonar from "master" to "stereo asio fw-1884 analog 1" which is the interface. always was good in master just don't understand!

You should have Dimension Pro. It comes with Sonar since version 8. And in version 7 it was Dimension LE.

Yea, for synths I generally create a bus and feed all the synths to it, then feed the bus into the master bus. You can go straight into the master bus though. If you're bypassing the master and feeding the synth outputs straight into your interface, you're not going to have the correct master volume in the console, and when you export, you're not going to hear the same level you were hearing while working on the project.

Do this:
Open up your project and bring up Console View. Look on the far left and make sure "INPUT" is checked (lit up) so that you see the input gain and pan for all the channels in the console. Now look on the master channel near the top of it and make sure the Input Gain is at zero (unity gain). If it was significantly less than zero, that was your problem. If it's already at zero, it's something else.

Let me know if that was the issue.

guitarmandanp · 05-24-2010, 01:06 PM

sorry for the delay i am fighting a bug that is a very good point re feeding the interface outputs direct and having a volume disparity after an export
i will follow your advice and post the results
thanks guitarmandan

guitarmandanp · 05-27-2010, 03:06 AM

sorry for the delay still quite sick i went into console view and the asio fw-1884 analog 1 master is at unity gain the master bus is at -8 but i always was using it this way until i did a bounce of all tracks to a stereo track for export then i put master up to about -0.3 so for things to radically change i don't understand
don't want to seem dense but whats the easiest way to create a bus to feed the synths and then feed the master bus?
by the way i checked the plug-in manager and see no evidence of dimension in any category strange thanks guitarmandan

05-22-2010, 01:28 AM	#1 (permalink)
guitarmandanp Groupie Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 4	soft synth volume crash thanks for your reply. don't have dimension-should I? at this point i got the synths back up to volume by changing the output on each synth channel in sonar from "master" to "stereo asio fw-1884 analog 1" which is the interface. always was good in master just don't understand!

05-24-2010, 01:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
guitarmandanp Groupie Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 4	soft synth volume crash sorry for the delay i am fighting a bug that is a very good point re feeding the interface outputs direct and having a volume disparity after an export i will follow your advice and post the results thanks guitarmandan

05-27-2010, 03:06 AM	#4 (permalink)
guitarmandanp Groupie Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 4	soft synth volume crash sorry for the delay still quite sick i went into console view and the asio fw-1884 analog 1 master is at unity gain the master bus is at -8 but i always was using it this way until i did a bounce of all tracks to a stereo track for export then i put master up to about -0.3 so for things to radically change i don't understand don't want to seem dense but whats the easiest way to create a bus to feed the synths and then feed the master bus? by the way i checked the plug-in manager and see no evidence of dimension in any category strange thanks guitarmandan