No Idea What Im Doing Wrong Here...

[ODEKK]

I am missing something small, I'm sure.

Trying to separate some midi drums and render them as audio.

I have thr midi track routed to a VST instrument track. THEN, I have a separte audio track routed to "listen" to that VST. Only problem is that every time I switch that input of that audio track id like to record to, it changes the track properties or something and the RECORD button goes away.....

Anybody here tell me what incredibly simple thing I'm doing wrong?

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!

Kevin

 

[metalhead28]

I am missing something small, I'm sure.
Trying to separate some midi drums and render them as audio.
I have thr midi track routed to a VST instrument track. THEN, I have a separte audio track routed to "listen" to that VST. Only problem is that every time I switch that input of that audio track id like to record to, it changes the track properties or something and the RECORD button goes away.....
Anybody here tell me what incredibly simple thing I'm doing wrong?
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!
Kevin

I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying. Sounds like you've got a MIDI source track and a VST instrument enabled with it's output track created. I don't understand what you mean by "switching the input of that audio track".....anyway
If you want to bounce a MIDI track to audio, you use the "Bounce to Track" feature. Also you could "Freeze" the output track and it would accomplish the same thing basically (if you are using Sonar, that is)

 

[DM1]

Anybody here tell me what incredibly simple thing I'm doing wrong?

You're probably just conceptualizing the process wrong.

The record button disappears because you don't actually record a VST synth. Instead, you record the midi notes that get sent to it. As metalhead28 said, you just need to "bounce" the track (or "freeze", in Sonar) in order to render the VST synth as audio. The recording part is already done.

 

[dachay2tnr]

You're probably just conceptualizing the process wrong.

The record button disappears because you don't actually record a VST synth. Instead, you record the midi notes that get sent to it. As metalhead28 said, you just need to "bounce" the track (or "freeze", in Sonar) in order to render the VST synth as audio. The recording part is already done.

And to add to that, there is really no pressing need to render a VSTi synth to audio. It will export as is.

I imagine if you have FX applied to the VSTi track, you could reduce CPU overhead by rendering to audio, but other than that I can't think of a good reason to do so. Leaving it as a VSTi allows you to continue to tweak the synth as needed, throughout the mixing process, while still allowing you to export to a wave file without rendering to audio.

 

[James Argo]

I am missing something small, I'm sure.

Yes, you forget to tell us what Cakewalk you use, and your comp spec

Anyway, as the almighty Dachay stated above, with DXi / VSTi you can do the "MIDI to audio" conversion in the mixing stage, that's it when you export your tracks as final mix into stereo wav file (File --> Export --> Audio). But if you realy need to do it before mix (eg. you want to put different effect for each drum piece in it's own effect bin) then it can be done before mixing final result.

First, BACK UP YOUR PROJECT! Then select (highlite) the MIDI track. Yes, the drum MIDI track only, which you wish to split it's notes. Then run CAL program called "Split notes to track. Follow the instruction as necessary to split the notes you want into new MIDI tracks. Once it's done correctly, you'll have new MIDI tracks contains splited notes from the original source. Now, adjust their properties (output, volume, pan, etc). Route their output to the VSTi (audio) track. Try it, if you solo one of the MIDI track, both MIDI and VSTi will automaticaly "solo'ed". Un-solo them.

Now, select (highlite) one of the MIDI track and the VSTi mentioned. Make sure you select only two of them, otherwise every MIDI track selected routed to the VSTi will be included to "bounce to track" result track.
Select Edit --> Bounce to track. It will ask for some additional adjustment, adjust them. Bounce them into new track.

There you go, the MIDI track is "bounced" into new audio track. Now, release the output of your bounced MIDI track, then mute / archive it. If you don't release the output before muting, your VSTi will also be muted as you mute the MIDI track.

Do as you like to the new audio track (bounce result)...

Come back if you have any difficulties.

Ps. Sorry if it sounds too technical...

Hope it helps,

Jaymz