Okay, why won't my Dxi synth record?

[Paul881]

Dumb Schmuck that I am, I cannot get my midi to record output on an audio track.

I only have two tracks, one audio and one midi. I select VSC as the Dxi. I make sure it is selected in the midi track. I arm the output track and see my delta 66 stereo output selected. I test levels....nothing! If I unarm the audiotrack, the level bar meters are working okay. Re-arm the track...again, nothing.

I am sure I have failed to check some box somewhere. Delta is set up to Monitor mixer.

This occurs on my win 98 and win xp dual boot puter.

Suggestions greatly appreciated.

 

[Pedullist]

Which drivers do you use, Paul881?

(hey, I'm a Delta66 user these days too!)

The 29 drivers are screwed, they took them down a few days ago.

They replaced them for .36 drivers.

I had the most peculiar problems with the 29 drivers (no sound was a reoccurring theme), that's why I'm asking.

 

[SPINSTERWUN]

Let us know how do you have everything connected.

Also, update your Delta 66 drivers.

spin

 

[SPINSTERWUN]

http://www.midiman.net/index.php?do=support.drivers

 

[dachay2tnr]

Paul, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are asking, but you don't have to record a DXi. Simply highlight/solo the two tracks (MIDI data and DXi) and select Edit > Bounce to Tracks and voila!! You should get an audio track of the midi data.

However, you don't even have to do that, since a DXi track will also be included in a mixdown. I usually just leave my tracks as midi/DXi. This way if they need any subsequent editing, I can just go directly back and edit the midi data.

Even if you want to use audio effects, you can generally just patch them onto the audio track that contains the DXi plugin.

With DXi's there's no real need to record the tracks to audio, as there was when working with midi and a hardware sound source.

 

[Pedullist]

With DXi's there's no real need to record the tracks to audio,

Performance? Recording them to audiotracks always helps when your CPU is getting overloaded...

 

[dachay2tnr]

Performance? Recording them to audiotracks always helps when your CPU is getting overloaded...

Not really. You still have to use an audio track to host the DXi. In fact, if you have several MIDI tracks routed to the same DXi, you'll get better performance leaving it as is, since you're only using a single audio track. Bouncing them would require the use of multiple audio tracks.

 

[Paul881]

Thanks, Boys for your suggestions.

I d/l'ed the latest win xp and win 98 drivers and installed em okay.

But it made no difference

I have a USB keyboard (this is incidental, even when I use the PRV for the midi track the same result occurs...i.e. doesn't record) I load HS2002 and then have one midi and one audio track.

I load VSC. This automatically loads up in the midi track as the output.

I play my k/board. I see the level meters move. I arm the audio track....i still hear the sound...but the meters stop moving and nothing records.

Its the same in win 98 and win xp ( I have a dual boot puter).

Dachay, surely, to bounce the tracks they have to be printed? At present, the recording is just a silent flat line.

 

[dachay2tnr]

Dachay, surely, to bounce the tracks they have to be printed? At present, the recording is just a silent flat line.

Well surely the MIDI information has to be printed - but you kept speaking of recording to an audio track. So my assumption is that you want to record already existing MIDI data to an audio track.

To accomplish this when using a DXi as the playback mechanism you just have to select the two tracks and bounce them.

If, on the other hand, you mean you actually want to record the initial MIDI data, then you should be arming a MIDI track, not an audio track.

Make sense?

 

[Paul881]

I'm not sure any more what I mean Too much red wine over Christmas - brain cells dying as we speak)

What I want to do is record using VSC (or any other soft synth) plus either my USB keyboard or Piano Roll View so I can hear what I play/record. And to do that, I understood that I had to output a midi track to an audio track.

I know that I have to bounce both the midi and audio tracks to get an audio file. But don't the two tracks (midi+audio) have to record first? Cuz that is not happening.

Please tell me there is a simple explanation here

Or to put it another way, please tell me how to record soft synths from either PRV or my USB keyboard so i hear what I record as I record.

Cuz the only way I can figure to do that at present is to patch an audio output from my omni/delta66 into an audio input and record it that way. Which don't make sense. There has to be an easier way?

 

[Paul881]

I am a pillock. And thats official.

I have been trying to record using the piano in PRV and it doesn't work like that. I got confused with Virtual Piano.

Anyway, I have taken the tablets and feel much better now.

Dachay gave me the clue when he said that to record midi you have to arm the midi track. Of course, I knew that. But forgot that I knew it. I was arming the audio outputtrack connected to the midi output.

Thanks for putting up with this drivel. 2004 will be better for me. I promise

 

[James Argo]

Dear Paul...

I get little confused by the way you said "record the VSC". Does it mean...

what...

You solved the problem?

Great!!!

Happy new year, everyone

 

[dachay2tnr]

Of course, I knew that. But forgot that I knew it. I was arming the audio outputtrack connected to the midi output.

Brits! What are we to do with them?

 

[James Argo]

Hehehe...
Actualy, Cakewalk heard you, Paul. In Sonar 3 PE, there's no "R" to arm DXi audio track. It's only "S" for solo and "M" for mute, thus you won't forget what to arm

 

[Paul881]

James, always a pleasure have you instruct me on Sonar matters, a true Gentleman of this forum (unlike some yanks I can think of )



BTW, does this mean I could get a job testing software? I could be the resident idiot

(Mrs Paul881 writes: "just like you are at home then, darling")

I'm recording something tomorrow so standby for some more stupid questions