Riverdog said:
All this adds up to Editor - is that you must ultimately record in real-time the MIDI track to audio... Whether it's done inside your program or outside using an external device and a mixer, you must record the sound to an audio track in order to perform a full audio mixdown...
Yeah, I understand ... that's what I'm trying to do. I also understand your 'old school' references
My last experiences with multi-tracking involved a Fostex 4-track machine (I'm a video editor by trade & an R & B guitar player at night). I think what I've done here is applied 'old school' thinking to 'new school' programs & stumbled on something that I thought was regularly done but isn't, if you follow my meaning.
Not that I'm a big Fruity Loops fan (it makes a lot of things easier & faster to get back to the music creation) but when I came across that particular program, I immediately ignored all the RAP & LOOPING benefits & used it to lay down drum, key and horn tracks. Once that was done, I would import into CuBase for adding guitar lines. That worked fine, as long as I was using soundfont based instruments & samples <--- took a while to wrap my head around those
... but when I picked up an M-Audio MIDI Controller keyboard, I thought I'd try out MIDI ( I kinda like a couple of the sounds I discovered)
I've managed to export MIDI to a WAV file in Cubase but that's not where I created the original hook for a particular ditty. The Fruity Loops manual says I can't export 'MIDI data' to a WAV file. "No problem" I thought because I just wanted to pull an AUDIO file into Cubase. Turns out that NO SOUND exports from MIDI tracks. I tried exporting a MIDI file & also a WAV file ... no big deal
... and I have found other utilities that will convert MIDI to WAV but I think there must be an easier way.
The main reason I want to solve this problem is because I have been exploring soundfont possibilities (found some dynamite B3 fonts!) and this is MIDI based, as far as Cubase is concerned.
I think the answer is in MIDI routing and/or creating a VSTi that will play the MIDI data in CuBase exported from Fruity Loops (or pulling the Fostex out of the closet
Hey! I grew up on Hendrix ... all feedback is good