More dumb midi questions

[khvt]

Hi - I'm a midi beginner. I know there's a lot going on with the new demo, which I think is beautiful by the way, but I need some help on a more basic level.

1. When you record a midi track, you then have to render it to hear it?

2. I have an M-Audio 61 kybd, no controllers. Is that not considered a proper "midi input?" It doesn't seem to be recognized as a midi anything. What would you all recommend as a good midi input for T2?

3. How do you get rid of the yellow question mark at the left side even when you have chosen an output?

Thanks a lot for any advice. Making fun of me & my novice status is appreciated too! (Okay, kind of.)

khvt

[Lunch Money]

It sounds like you're not running MIDI through a virtual instrument. MIDI itself makes no noise, it's like notes on a piece of sheet music. You need to play them with an instrument.

The yellow warning thing will go away when you put an instrument in the track and set your output to AUDIO (not MIDI).

Greg

[djsubject]

1) NO!

2) yes it is a propper midi controler it should work, how have you connected it to the pc? is it usb or into a midi input?

3) route it correctly the is your buddy if you are new to this app

edit; Lunch jumped in before me

quick typing english teaching bar.......

[valley]

I'd remcommend reading the user manual for T2, between in and the reg manual, it may help to explain a bit about working with MIDI.

[Lunch Money]

quick typing english teaching bar.......

Hey, I could type quickly long before I became an English teacher or even an English major.

Before the internet came along, I used to use dial-up Bulletin-Board Systems, with limited connection times. I learned very quickly how to type what I needed to say in the time allotted!

Currently Mavis Beacon rates me at 110 wpm.

Greg

[valley]

I like to think of myself as 100 tpm.

[djsubject]

i can fart 2x a min

[valley]

i can fart 2x a min

if you can't render God Save The Queen, you just don't count.

[JazAddict]

It sounds like you're not running MIDI through a virtual instrument.

Virtual? Virtual? We don't need no stinking VIRTUAL.

Outboard, Outboard, GooooOOOOO OUTBOARD!

Just check the other threads at what an EASY time I'm haveing with outboard gear.

[Lunch Money]

Seems to be a SNAP. Down with virtual.

[IIRs]

i can fart 2x a min

if you can't render God Save The Queen, you just don't count.

I can do the Sex Pistols version..

[djsubject]

so thats the trick to getting the loose women

[khvt]

1) NO!

2) yes it is a propper midi controler it should work, how have you connected it to the pc? is it usb or into a midi input?

3) route it correctly the is your buddy if you are new to this app

edit; Lunch jumped in before me

quick typing english teaching bar.......

Hey, thanks for your comments - the keystation uses a usb input. When I use an FM7 VST synth as a filter, it plays & I see levels, but then there's nothing recorded so I was confused about whether it needed to be rendered. Even when I use the FM7 as a VST & just play from my computer kybd, it doesn't record.

Re: the yellow! - why do you need to route to a different track than the one being recorded onto?

I'll reread the UGuide & RefGuide. If anyone else sees the error in my thinking, please chime in. Thanks again.

[nuisance sonore]

khvt, reading your post I get the feeling you need to brush up on your knowledge of basic midi, sorry if I assumed wrong.

"MIDI" refers to the technology used to connect between synthesizers, drum machines and computers to write and play music. MIDI files do not contain sounds. They are text files, containing encoded commands, to tell your PC's sound card's synthesyzer (or an external music keyboard, VST instruments etc.), to play notes (e.g. C, G#, Bb). Numbers specify each note's position relative to the start of the music and its time-value, and its volume or velocity if you will.

If you place a midi input on a Tracktion track then that track become a midi track, if you want to hear sound you need that track to output to a synthesyzer, either virtual as in VSTI or a full hardware external synth. If you then want to have a sound file, you then need to render the midi note trough a synth if you use VSTI or record the output back in if you use an outboard synth.

I hope I didn't state what was obvious to you.