Sorry to bother you guys but as I begin to make more use of this program i get confused. I thought I had enough unanswered questions to start a thread.
1. I have an audio track that is in stero but only has the left channel. I have been toying around but cant find a solution to make it mono. Im thinking is there a plug or somehting I can put on this track to make it mono with a rendering. Or some sort of routing solution. I want both channels. Any ideas?
2. What if I want to completely rework a song? I can't delete all of my midi parts, that would be bad, but I want a clean slate. Is this what variations do?
3. Oh yeah, my third question is about audio settings. I have an indigo i/o. If I have ext set at 48000 for a sample rate, should I lock the samplerate of the soundcard at 48000 or keep it unlocked? Should I be working in 48000? I got a lot of confusion involving this and what speed my song played at. I was just trying to improve performance. If I do different songs with different samplerate settings, won't that mess up my songs when I switch between my projects. I wan't to keep it at one setting and have all of my songs sound normal. Another wierd this is that now that I have ext set at 48000, if I play iTunes while eXT is open, the songs in iTunes speed up.
BR- No mono out from sequencer & (A few stupid questions
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- KVRAF
- 1601 posts since 24 Jun, 2004 from Australia
1. Try Channel-Tool, it may do what you need. Set the pan of the left channel to middle (or right?) and you should be able to center the sound. I have not tested this, but I don't see any reason why it should not be able to do so.
2. I've never tried variations (I'm still fairly new to energyXT) but your suggestion makes sense. A new variation, I believe, will give you a fresh "slate" on which to work, without the previous parts intefering. I have no idea if you can copy parts between variations.
3. From my experience, your third issue is normal. I personally leave my samplerate unlocked, so that I can play games or do whatever else that might use different samplerates. I also swap energyXT's samplerate depending on if I need higher audio quality or more reliability. You can't change the samplerate per song (as far as I know), if you set it to 96000 and then open a new song, it should stay at 96000. If you keep your samplerate unlocked, all your songs will sound fine even if you switch your samplerate since your card will swtich to what is needed. If you are sure you want to stick with 48000, there's nothing wrong with setting energyXT at that and locking your soundcard to that, because as I mentioned energyXT does not save that setting per song.
As for iTunes speeding up, I almost guarantee it's operating at 44100. This means that, per second, it has less samples to play. This happens to me if I open Winamp and then energyXT as well - opening energyXT, the ASIO driver switches the soundcard to its samplerate (in your case, 48000). So other audio running at the same time goes up to that samplerate as well. Less samples were recorded for 44100 sources, therefore those samples get played faster, resulting in higher pitch and speed.
Try opening energyXT and then iTunes, and see if it still does it. I daresay it will if you have your samplerate locked, but I might be wrong about how that function operates.
2. I've never tried variations (I'm still fairly new to energyXT) but your suggestion makes sense. A new variation, I believe, will give you a fresh "slate" on which to work, without the previous parts intefering. I have no idea if you can copy parts between variations.
3. From my experience, your third issue is normal. I personally leave my samplerate unlocked, so that I can play games or do whatever else that might use different samplerates. I also swap energyXT's samplerate depending on if I need higher audio quality or more reliability. You can't change the samplerate per song (as far as I know), if you set it to 96000 and then open a new song, it should stay at 96000. If you keep your samplerate unlocked, all your songs will sound fine even if you switch your samplerate since your card will swtich to what is needed. If you are sure you want to stick with 48000, there's nothing wrong with setting energyXT at that and locking your soundcard to that, because as I mentioned energyXT does not save that setting per song.
As for iTunes speeding up, I almost guarantee it's operating at 44100. This means that, per second, it has less samples to play. This happens to me if I open Winamp and then energyXT as well - opening energyXT, the ASIO driver switches the soundcard to its samplerate (in your case, 48000). So other audio running at the same time goes up to that samplerate as well. Less samples were recorded for 44100 sources, therefore those samples get played faster, resulting in higher pitch and speed.
Try opening energyXT and then iTunes, and see if it still does it. I daresay it will if you have your samplerate locked, but I might be wrong about how that function operates.
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- KVRAF
- 5350 posts since 8 Aug, 2003 from Berlin Germany
Right click on the audio track in the main mixer and select outputs. Then unlink them and just use the left.funkadil wrote:Sorry to bother you guys but as I begin to make more use of this program i get confused. I thought I had enough unanswered questions to start a thread.
1. I have an audio track that is in stereo but only has the left channel. I have been toying around but cant find a solution to make it mono. I'm thinking is there a plug or something I can put on this track to make it mono with a rendering. Or some sort of routing solution. I want both channels. Any ideas?
Variations share instruments with other variations in their ARRANGEMENT. IT really depends on what you want to keep and what you don't. For me (and being a buzz user maybe you too), I think the best potential here is the LIVE mode for reworking. Save a copy and then just change what you need to in the new version.2. What if I want to completely rework a song? I can't delete all of my midi parts, that would be bad, but I want a clean slate. Is this what variations do?
Don't know the answer to this one. I would guess that 44100 would have better performance and potentially less quality but I think it depends on the resources your sound driver uses.3. Oh yeah, my third question is about audio settings. I have an indigo i/o. If I have ext set at 48000 for a sample rate, should I lock the sample rate of the sound card at 48000 or keep it unlocked? Should I be working in 48000? I got a lot of confusion involving this and what speed my song played at. I was just trying to improve performance. If I do different songs with different sample rate settings, won't that mess up my songs when I switch between my projects. I want to keep it at one setting and have all of my songs sound normal. Another weird this is that now that I have ext set at 48000, if I play iTunes while ext is open, the songs in iTunes speed up.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2029 posts since 21 Jul, 2004
The splitting of the outputs doesn't work. At least for the outputs on the sequencer. I tried and get no sound at all. It only works if they are linked for some strange reason. Thats why I brought this up in the first place actually. Maybe it has something to do with the effect it is routed to? -Bionic delay.
EDIT ---So therefore: any effects that take a mono signal and make it a stereo signal?
EDIT ---So therefore: any effects that take a mono signal and make it a stereo signal?
Do not lick the fablanky
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- KVRAF
- 5350 posts since 8 Aug, 2003 from Berlin Germany
You know what?! I'm getting no sound out of mono tracks int eh sequencer right now either!!!
I think this is a new bug!
two mono outs sound from the sequencer
-Actual results:
no sound
I think this is a new bug!
- add stereo sample to sequencer
- unlink sequencer audio out
- unlink stereo audio track
- rout mono 1 to sequencer 1 and 2 to 2
two mono outs sound from the sequencer
-Actual results:
no sound
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- KVRAF
- 10366 posts since 2 Sep, 2003 from Surrey, UK
soma,
Confirmed, mono outs from the Seuqncer don't work for me either
Confirmed, mono outs from the Seuqncer don't work for me either
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- KVRAF
- 3948 posts since 8 Sep, 2003 from germany
Already mentioned HERE and another topic corresponding to it , if we're meaning the same issues .
It's not only a problem of the sequencer but also with eXT VST/i .
It's not only a problem of the sequencer but also with eXT VST/i .