Recording Audio From a Virtual Instrument

[Carlos58]

Hi All,

Complete newbie to Mixcraft and VST's in general so this question may well be (hopefully) easily answered by someone.

If I bring in for example Arturia's V4 Moog Modular it will play a sequence and or notes played and record the midi but doesn't record any changes I make such as Resonance, Frequency etc so logically recording the direct audio as can be done in Reaper seems to be the only way to achieve it.

I've read the manual (I'm a dinosaur, bare with me) but saw nothing to help so my question is, without diving in to the guts of Mixcraft, can I record resulting audio on the fly and if so how as logic says use the monitor which is how I got it to work in Reaper but it is greyed out in Mixcraft.

PC Specs are Win7 64bit, quadcore intel, 24g ram, C-Media PCI Audio card, Asio4All

Cheers
Carlos

[Acoustica Eric]

So when you record midi data using a controller of some sort, the Resonance, Frequency etc which I assume you are controlling as you play the controller? Are not getting put into the midi file? So when you play back what you recorded, you do not hear those aspects?
Does it do the same thing with other virtual instruments?

[Carlos58]

So when you record midi data using a controller of some sort, the Resonance, Frequency etc which I assume you are controlling as you play the controller? Are not getting put into the midi file? So when you play back what you recorded, you do not hear those aspects?
Does it do the same thing with other virtual instruments?

Just tested the 'Glass Viper', I have my controller (Beatstep) adjusting the octave while playing a sequence and while I can hear the change nothing is recorded. As a further test I tried the Keylab 61 with just two notes repeating, and while it recorded the two notes, again the octave change wasn't.

Cheers

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

Select that parameter on the automation lane, then arm the automation lane and record. Check out the Mixcraft 7 automation tutorials, in particular the one called "Automating Effect and Instrument Parameters."

Greg

[Carlos58]

Hi,

Select that parameter on the automation lane, then arm the automation lane and record. Check out the Mixcraft 7 automation tutorials, in particular the one called "Automating Effect and Instrument Parameters."

Greg

Cheers Greg, the video show's it working so all should now be good.

Appreciate the help.