Rayzoon Technologies LLC

[Ja_mes]

Hello. First off, I am having a blast with your software. It is blowing my mind every time I use it. The drumming is spot-on perfect, and the drum tones themsleves are as good as I've heard. Keep up the good work.

Having got the JS drummer to do exactly what I want, I now want to record that performance to audio tracks. I am running Win XP, hosting in Sonar 6, and using JS 2.5.2. I set JS to Jam With Audio, and used the audio plug-in to send some audio tracks to 'power' the JS performance. To render soft synths to audio in Sonar, one uses the Edit - Bounce To Tracks commands, choosing the JS audio track as source. I quickly learned that the "Fast Bounce" command needs to be unchecked for Bounce To Tracks to work with JS, so that the bounce occurs in real time.

When I did this, I first noticed that the audio that was rendered contained all of JS's drum hits, but the performance lacked the 'power' that I got from using the audio input to JS. so the audio track that was rendered was flat and lifeless compared to the performance I heard from the JS playback.

I then tried to solve this problem by using the Freeze command in JS. I played the song all the way through, and enabled Freeze in JS. With JS now frozen, I discovered that the JS Kit Mute and Solo cammands no longer worked. This meant that I could not record just the Kick drum or Snare drum to an audio track. Because I wanted a "virtual Snare mic" on it's own track, and a "virtual Kick mic", and "virtual Tom mic", all on their own tracks, I had to give up on the Freeze command as a way to capture JS's lively performance in audio.

I next tried using Midi. I recorded the JS performance as a Midi track, and switched JS to "Drum Module Mode". In this way, I have been able to capture all the performance nuances of JS playing on a solo snare track, solo kick track, solo Hi-hat track , All Toms soloed track, and a "room" track (the entire JS kit with ambience).

My questions: 1) is there a way to get the livliness and nuances of a JS performance when "jamming with audio" captured using Bounce To Tracks in Sonar? 2) is there a way to enable Kit Mute and Solo commands when JS is "frozen" 3) On playback, JS drums are spread across the stereo field. When I Bounce to Tracks using the JS audio track as source, what I hear is NOT stereo, even though I rendered to a stereo audio track. I get stereo spread by selecting a bus as source. I'm confused because I thought the JS audio track WAS output in stereo. Can anyone help me with this?

Any input on my questions is appreciated. And thanks again for a great software instrument!! jmp

[Ralph [RZ]]

[Ja_mes]

Thanks for your reply and the tips. I will try them out and report back.