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Supersonic1 · Post by **Supersonic1** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:33 pm

Thanks Jo for your work on PR4.

I've updated - but just the application and the skins, in order to preserve my previous audio/sequence files.

One problem, however. When I open Luna now, it comes up with a message saying 'Couldn't start audio engine'. The application opens fine, all my tracks are present, but it won't play - i.e. when I press the space bar or play button - nothing plays.

Can anyone tell me why this might be? I've tried updating the application again, but that didn't work.

Thanks

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:01 pm

Go to the Edit->Audio Setup panel, and re-set your audio settings. That should solve the problem.

Don't know why the update didn't work immediately.

Supersonic1 · Post by **Supersonic1** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:24 pm

Thanks Jo,

Yes, it's working fine now.

It did play when I first downloaded the update - I think I must have edited the audio setup and just didn't know that it was that causing the problem - sorry about that!

Androidmonk · Post by **Androidmonk** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:04 am

This is all very exciting! I remember really wishing for audio input monitoring when using Muzys.

Does anyone know how to work the new MIDI vst plugin feature? I can't seem to output any MIDI vsts into a synth or MIDI player.

Caco · Post by **Caco** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:27 am

Hi Androidmonk

Go to the player section, create new synth and select your MIDI VST. Now do the same again and insert the VSTi you wish to control with the MIDI VST.

Set the player for your sequence part to the MIDI VST then go to the player's options and connect the MIDI VST's event output to the VSTi.

Hope that helps

Androidmonk · Post by **Androidmonk** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:06 am

Hey thanks Caco, it worked like a charm!

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:40 pm

Jo, as promised, I've had a delve into the innards of Kontakt2 and LUNA. I cannot get mixdown to work - for some reason, K2 seems to start trying to recover voices and gets the stealing algorithm wrong when in mixdown.

Is there any chance of a "do mixdown in realtime" switch somewhere?

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:22 pm

No such switch currently.

Is it still only a problem with that hihat sound?

Could you then please send me that hihat file (if that's legally allowed of course).

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:21 pm

muzycian wrote:Is it still only a problem with that hihat sound?
Could you then please send me that hihat file (if that's legally allowed of course).

Yes, still just the one hihat... but we're talking 496 samples at 201Mb (plus 20K for the .nki). ns_kit7 is neither small nor free, so sending it's not really feasible. I've posted a support query to NI, though. K2 shouldn't work in real-time but get confused in mixdown...

jpumphandle · Post by **jpumphandle** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:52 am

Just to note that I have not encountered any problems in PR4.

Have a question tho ...
How do you turn off looping when the key editor is open?

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:08 am

It's a skin issue. Please reread the first page of this thread, it's handled there

oldguy · Post by **oldguy** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:27 pm

Hi Jo, I hope the house is coming along.

One feature that would be nice is the ability to copy sequences / audio between sessions. With the audio, I could just output to wave as a workaround, but with the midi I loose flexibility if I do that.

The particular application is that I've got a library of drum patterns in Midi format. If I've already got a song in process, importing the midi causes a new session to be created instead of just dropping into the file. Maybe there's something I'm missing here in doing what I want to do....

Peace.

Remedial · Post by **Remedial** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:53 pm

Never used Luna before, so this is my first go around. I'm guessing that a MIDI VST is a plugin that you use to record MIDI data (note value, velocity, etc..) which you can then transmit to a VST i. Now, my question is, what is the use of a MIDI VST in Luna if Luna supports MIDI recording and playback?

My only other question is:

Does Luna support the export of files to the OMF format? If not, this feature would be great.

Thanks.

DaveL60 · Post by **DaveL60** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:01 am

Remedial wrote:I'm guessing that a MIDI VST is a plugin that you use to record MIDI data (note value, velocity, etc..) which you can then transmit to a VST i. Now, my question is, what is the use of a MIDI VST in Luna if Luna supports MIDI recording and playback?

Actually, a MIDI VST would be used to process MIDI data. An arpegiator would be a classic example, something like this one. So LUNA handles the MIDI recording, but then a MIDI VST may modify the recorded data on the way to the VSTi.

That said, playing with MIDI processors is on my to-do list; I've not experimented with any yet.

DaveL

Remedial · Post by **Remedial** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:39 am

DaveL60 wrote:
Remedial wrote:I'm guessing that a MIDI VST is a plugin that you use to record MIDI data (note value, velocity, etc..) which you can then transmit to a VST i. Now, my question is, what is the use of a MIDI VST in Luna if Luna supports MIDI recording and playback?
Actually, a MIDI VST would be used to process MIDI data. An arpegiator would be a classic example, something like this one. So LUNA handles the MIDI recording, but then a MIDI VST may modify the recorded data on the way to the VSTi.

That said, playing with MIDI processors is on my to-do list; I've not experimented with any yet.

DaveL

Cool, thanks for filling in the blank for me.

Here's one last question for all though:

Is there any form of quantisation within Luna? Does it default to 16th notes for midi recording? Thanks.

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