Sonar anyone

I must admit that until we finished "Something In The Way" last week, "Monkey" was my favourite too - thanks for the comments!

The vocal effects are largely done using Antares and Sonitus plug ins. I don't know too much about them - that's Andy's domain.

Monkey was pretty much finished in it's first incarnation - a single session resulted in the complete song and rough sketches of the guitar parts and organ, so every subsequent session has been a polish of the original, while other songs have been elongated, edited and generally cut and pasted about.

Having said that, we're only up to mix 9 on "Monkey" - some other songs are up to mix 20 and beyond. The mix on the MySpace site is actually mix 7 - we're waiting for our real drummer to complete his drum programming, and I've got to re-record the real bass, as my first attempt was a bit of a bodge.

The bass on mix 7 is the same synth line that we used for the prototype for mix 1, and I'm particularly averse to synth basses, unless used for effect - so it needs to die!

I also need to come up with a solo for the section after the white noise/feedback in the bridge - so I'm frantically searching the LickLibrary.com archives. Surprisingly, the best DVD I've found to plunder ideas from is called "50 Killer Metal Licks", featuring Danny Gill - but I can't play that fast... yet!


Thanks again for the comments about the music!

I used to be a big fan of Cakewalk - around version 3 - then things got ropey when they first added Audio in v4.

We have Sonar 4 on our studio PC, but find it orders of magnitude less friendly than Sony ACID Pro, which we use exclusively these days.

The results can be heard on my MySpace profile - but that doesn't mean you'll like the music - it ain't Prog Rock, although "Modern Man" is kinda proggish in the mid section.

^^Are you doing any recording with Sonar 4 and having lock up problems? I had a hell of time with 4 until I put on 5.

It's an aging SD-35 Soundcanvas player. Uses floppy discs. Unfortunately they are 720k discs and they are getting very hard to come by... But it still plays like treat.

I use it all the time for recording and midi for our covers band. The midi makes excellent backing stuff when played through a Roland midi player, which through a PA sounds just like there was an actual Roland instrument there.

Excellent darren. Are you using midi instruments or recording directly into it?

So, nobody uses sonar...
What music recording software do the musicians on this site use then?

The program is a music studio for PC by Cakewalk. Puts a recording studio on your desktop. The greatest thing since sliced bread.... for a musician.

The Drum Manufacturer? Sonar Drums?

True... Lindsay L

Any experience with it?