Recording VSTi drum machine on LE4

[skintag]

Hello,

I've posted this a couple other places, but I'm getting no responses, which seems odd, considering that I think it's not hard if you know what you're doing.


I'm realy new to recording, and some MIDI and VSTi stuff seems to be going over my head. I have a VSTi drum machine (the Audiorealism DM), and while I can program beats, I don't know how to get it to record onto Cubase (LE4 mac).

It has options for routing the different instruments (eg. BD to track 1, SD to track 2, etc), but I don't understand where "track 1" and "track 2" actually GO. When I set routing, I just don't hear anything. How do I get that sound to go into tracks on cubase? Do I have to put this through an audio interface for some reason? And will a drum machine like this record as MIDI data that I can move around or as a .wav file?

Any help would be really, really appreciated.

 

[skintag]

Sorry, I possibly should have put this in the "beginner" forum.

 

[Guitargodgt]

VSTi are all midi all the way with the exception of their audio output.


My guess (and this is simply a guess) is that your keyboard can trigger beat patterns you programmed. At least that is the way it works with some other step editor drums (boom and reason redrum).

So what you need to do is record the midi note that starts the loops and play it from a keyboard OR draw it in.

 

[suprstar]

Sounds like a stereo track. Look at your mixer - there's a fader there for it, just like a regular audio track. You can apply eq, fx, automation, etc to it just like regular audio tracks. Treat it like a regular audio track, the only difference is you don't have an actual waveform to edit.

Most drum vsti's do a stereo track 1/2, OR you can set it to multi-track and get like 8 tracks (some stereo) of kick/snare/oh's/hihat/toms/etc, then the mixer has 8 additional tracks in it for those, and you can apply eq/fx to each drum individually. Also, if you look at your main project window, there's a 'VST Instruments' section you can expand and see the instruments, expand that and you can see the track(s) that vsti is giving your project.