How can I record Audio AND Vision from my Sonar X1?

Alan in Cram · 11 Jun 2014

I have Sonar X1 Studio (X1c build 319) – X 64 and an Edirol UA-4FX interface (no longer made) which rest within my Acer Aspire (All in one PC) Z 5610 with a Realtek HD Audio sound card. OS is Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition.

The interface acts as an Audio / Midi input and output. When I playback my work from Sonar it goes through the interface and I listen through headphone connected to the interface. I have never been able to get Sonar to recognise the PC’s sound card and playback through my PC’s speakers.

I am an amateur, hobbyist messing around with Sonar for nearly 3 years. Sometimes it drives me mad but I have got to the stage where I can produce simple compositions, and use software synthesisers.

Users of Sonar (like Fireberd) will realise that using the staff view on Sonar will display the musical notation of the track viewed. It will also allow me to put lyrics and chords onto the manuscript. When the track is played the time line will follow the notation, lyrics and chords (much like the bouncing ball concept) making it easy to play along with on a guitar (or any other instrument).

What I have been trying to do is record the staff view to produce a video of the music notation and lyrics of various songs for demonstration purposes.

I have tried two Screen Capture programs, being: (1) Microsoft Windows Expression Encoder 4 Capture and (2) BB Express FlahBack Recorder. Both of these captured the video in vision but with no sound.

I suspect the reason for this is related to me using an ASIO driver with the interface. Perhaps the Realtek sound card does not respond to ASIO. (To be truthful I don’t fully understand the concept but I’m sure there must be someone out there who can help).

Perhaps someone who uses Sonar X1 has tried to do what I am doing and has been successful.

Can anyone help please?

fireberd · 11 Jun 2014

This question would be best posted on the Sonar Forum. Although I'm a Sonar (X3 Producer) user, I haven't done anything with that function.

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Alan in Cram · 12 Jun 2014

I've been round the houses with this including the Digi Tech Cakewalk forum, BB Express Support, Roland support and an unanswered email to Sonar support.

When I saw some of your answers relating to ASIO I thought they were great. Hence I've tried this forum.

I've taken up your suggestion and posted it on Sonar X series forum. I'll leave this message open for a while in case anyone has any ideas and I'll come back later to update it and hopefully mark the thread as solved.

Thanks for your prompt reply and suggestion.
Alan

fireberd · 12 Jun 2014

I think that is the best place. I can't answer it as I don't use that function. Actually, I use very little MIDI and probably 1/8th of what the program can do. I almost always only use "analog" tracks, as all my recording is traditional country music.