External Instrument Channel (please?!)

hujib · Post by **hujib** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:54 pm

I can't seem to find anything about this on this board, so here goes:

Cubase has a way of linking a MIDI outputs to audio inputs for the use of external effects and midi devices. This link compensates for latecy and allows you to "freeze" external instruments as audio without recording them on a seperate audio track. I use a lot of external MIDI gear with Live and would love to be able to use it more effectivly.

How do others use external gear routed back into Live to mix?

rnbeatz · Post by **rnbeatz** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:34 pm

I would love the feature you describe. It has been memtioned on occasion before. Lets hope it makes it on the list for Live 7.

hujib · Post by **hujib** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:12 pm

just thinking....

What I'd like to see in live is a single configurable channel that sends midi and plays midi clips but recieves audio as it's input. Works like midi but the channel looks like audio. When it's frozen it turns into an audio channel

The Cubase linking is a bit cumbersome..

hujib · Post by **hujib** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:46 am

Am I the only person using external synths? lol ....

hujib · Post by **hujib** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:47 am

oops.

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:21 am

I only use my hardware when the blue moon shines through the clowds and onto my dusty preamps. It is sad that my nord lead has become a controller. It rely is. I am just lazy rely, that is the truth. But having a track that sends midi and accepts audio input would help change that. That would be smooth.

hujib · Post by **hujib** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:37 pm

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:45 pm

If it's so much work to make 2 tracks. Then just save those tracks as a .als file.
Live 6 remembers routings

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:53 pm

Is this thread a joke? I don't get it?

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:48 pm

No not a joke but not a deal breaker that is fore sure

MathematiK I · Post by **MathematiK I** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:09 pm

Hey dude....

As for external hardware what I do is ....

1. I usually send midi timecode for sync to my ext. sequencer ,latency can be adjujsted in the preferences.

2. if you would like to adjust the returns from the external effects units , use the track's individual delay compensation
(viewed on the bottom of the mixer sect., by pressing the small 'D' on the bottom right of the session view.

Hope this helps...