MIDI with Sonar Soft Synths and Q10

[jdier]

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.

Am I correct in assuming that I could plug in two midi cables from the the Casio to the Q10 and then be able to drive the MIDI soft synths included with Sonar?

For reference, I am primarily doing micing and recording of rock and roll. I just want to know, can I do what I describe above, and if I can, does anyone out there have a simple recipe or step by step of how to do it?

Also, if you do not know, who would you suggest I ask... Aardvark or Sonar?

Thanks in advance.

Jim

[Cranky]

Just take the MIDI out from your Casio and connect it to the MIDI in of the first Q10. In Sonar go to Options/MIDI Devices and make sure that the Q10 drivers are highlighted in blue. That's it! Then select a MIDI track to record, under input select either the MIDI channel that the keyboard is set to or OMNI (which records any channel coming in) and you're set. If you want to use a DXI, first you need to select a new audio track and under FX select the DXI you want to use. Once you've done that then go to your midi track and under OUTPUT select the DXI you just added to the audio track. You have to do it in this order otherwise the DXI won't be available in the outputs of your MIDI track. Now go make some good music and make us all proud!

[This message has been edited by Cranky (edited 04-01-2003).]