Just starting to get into using step clips, very cool. Only used them with VSTi's until yesterday when I tried to control my Bass Station II. It appears that step clips don't output MIDI until you convert them to MIDI clips? Or am I missing something?
If this is true, it's disappointing. I really love the step clip interface and it'd be great to iterate on riffs controlling external hardware without having to convert to MIDI clip.
Step Clip Question
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- KVRist
- 250 posts since 15 Jul, 2002
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- KVRist
- 45 posts since 18 Dec, 2014
Step clips do output MIDI to external hardware, you just have to set the routing correctly. Have you set the track to output to the correct MIDI device? Have you set the correct MIDI channels for both Tracktion's output and the synth's input?
Mac Mini (late 2011, dual i5 2.3GHz/8GB 1333/OS X 10.9 Mavericks); Harrison Mixbus/Logic Express 9/Tracktion 6; Allen & Heath Zed R16 over FW
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 250 posts since 15 Jul, 2002
Yep, I've checked all that.
Here's what's happening:
1. I create a step clip with notes in it, then loop/repeat the clip for a few measures
2. Test it with a VSTi, VSTi makes sound as expected
3. Delete the VSTi, set the MIDI output to my external synth
4. Play step clip, no sound from external synth
5. Select step clip, press "render to MIDI clip" button in the options panel at the bottom
6. Press play, voila, external synth make sound!
If the MIDI channel/routing was incorrect, the external synth wouldn't sound after I render the step clip to a MIDI clip. I can have a bunch of step clips on either side of a single MIDI clip, and if I play the whole string there won't be any sound from the external synth during the step clip portion but as soon as it passes through the MIDI clip the external synth will sound. No idea what I'm doing wrong.
I'm using the Linux version of T7, maybe there's a bug in it?
Here's what's happening:
1. I create a step clip with notes in it, then loop/repeat the clip for a few measures
2. Test it with a VSTi, VSTi makes sound as expected
3. Delete the VSTi, set the MIDI output to my external synth
4. Play step clip, no sound from external synth
5. Select step clip, press "render to MIDI clip" button in the options panel at the bottom
6. Press play, voila, external synth make sound!
If the MIDI channel/routing was incorrect, the external synth wouldn't sound after I render the step clip to a MIDI clip. I can have a bunch of step clips on either side of a single MIDI clip, and if I play the whole string there won't be any sound from the external synth during the step clip portion but as soon as it passes through the MIDI clip the external synth will sound. No idea what I'm doing wrong.
I'm using the Linux version of T7, maybe there's a bug in it?
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- KVRist
- 473 posts since 1 Feb, 2006
i would send that to tracktion support directly
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 250 posts since 15 Jul, 2002
Can somebody confirm for me that they can actually control an external synth using step clips? Nathanscribe, this is something you've done successfully?
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- KVRist
- 45 posts since 18 Dec, 2014
It is. I use step clips for drum programming, using both software and hardware sound sources.Lava wrote:Can somebody confirm for me that they can actually control an external synth using step clips? Nathanscribe, this is something you've done successfully?
Mac Mini (late 2011, dual i5 2.3GHz/8GB 1333/OS X 10.9 Mavericks); Harrison Mixbus/Logic Express 9/Tracktion 6; Allen & Heath Zed R16 over FW
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 250 posts since 15 Jul, 2002
Dang. Maybe somebody reading this who is on T7 Linux can test it on their system to see if it's OS-specific?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 250 posts since 15 Jul, 2002
Figured out what I was doing wrong - didn't realize that each "track" of a step clip had a default MIDI channel of 10. I changed them all to channel 1 and was in business...