MIDI questions!

[Pastor Brian]

Slackmaster-Hope you can help. I have asked the question at n-track site and had no luck.

I have an audiophile 2496 and am trying to record VSTI instruments etc...over my guitar and vocal tracks.
MIDI controller is Oxygen 8 via usb

Could you walk me through how to render these tracks (mixdown)

I can get the vsti to play "live" just fine and can "record"
but the track is blank.
I know I have to do some stuff to get the file to convert to Wav.
but I am lost here!

I believe the audiophile does NOT have onboard MIDI so...

Thanks and hope this helps the boredom!

[Slackmaster2K]

The Audiophile simply has no MIDI synth, it does of course have MIDI as you know.

What you actually want to record in this case is the MIDI itself, not a wave file. The MIDI file you record will then trigger the same VST synth you used when playing live...or you can later substitute any VST instrument, and/or play with parameters.

So how do you record a MIDI file in n-Track? Well, I don't know, sorry! I've done MIDI in n-Track but I don't have a MIDI controller myself (e.g. I did it all via the Piano roll editor). My guess is that you simply start a new MIDI track and arm it for recording...probably route it through your VST synth like normal so that you can hear what you're playing.

Try this:

1) Open up n-Track and add a VST instrument channel (Track->MIDI->New VST Instrument Channel).

2) Right click in a blank space in the main track window, and choose "Add Blank MIDI Track". For some reason, this option doesn't appear in the Track menu, go figure.

3) Right click in your new MIDI track and select properties.

4) From the MIDI Track's properties, choose your VSTi in the "Output Port" dropdown list. Choose the channel you want to record from in the "Record From" dropdown. Choose ok.

5) If it's not by default, arm the track for recording by clicking the "R" in the left-side menu for the track.

6) Try recording.

Good luck. I'm just going off what makes sense and what I've done manually...so I hope it works

Now when you record MIDI, you're not recording sounds, because MIDI has no sound. You're recording events (notes, along with information like velocity, etc). You can edit each of these events using the piano roll editor...so if you get off a little bit here or there, it's easy to fix up!

As I said earlier, you'll be playing back through your VST instrument each time you play back the newly recorded MIDI track. You can swap instruments at any time after that, which is also cool. When you mixdown at the end of your project, rest assured that your mixdown file will be as you'd expect, with the VST sounds.

Warning: n-track might be bad at this, so anticipate crashes and save frequently.

Slackmaster 2000

[Student]

Pastor,

This is easy. Just Render the midi file that is playing the vsti instrument. As if it were a wave file. Mute all other tracks, or solo the to-be-rendered track.

Student