waveform midi volume

[ceodell1258@gmail.com]

HI there. I'm a digital newbie and old. Why can't I control the volume/output of my midi tracks? Audio tracks work fine.

[FigBug]

Click on your volume / pan filter and enable "apply to midi velocities"

[Peter Widdicombe]

I would really think "it depends". Are you outputting MIDI to then feed into an external synth, or is this a track with MIDI data and a VST doing conversion to audio?

If it's the latter, then placing the volume filter and applying to midi velocity might sort of work if the filter was before the VST, but the tonal characteristics would then change. You probably want, in this instance, to have a normal volume/pan filter AFTER the VST, possibly as the last plugin on the right...

[fde101]

Also, some instruments do not respond to velocity (or might not depending on how configured), so if there is an external synth involved you would need to control the volume either at the synth or at the track the audio is being returned to.

[ceodell1258@gmail.com]

thanks folks. Moving the volume plugin after the VST did the trick. Magic! Next problem i, when recording an audio track, I'm not able to monitor it. It records and then I can play it back but not before..

[ceodell1258@gmail.com]

Thannks again. I have solved the monitoring issue.

[Peter Widdicombe]

Tracktion/Waveform is normally fairly simple to work out. Everything is left to right; and you just need to be aware of what it is on that path.

Audio is simpler, conceptually. You record audio, get a waveform, and use modifiers in whatever order makes sense (i.e. distortion/echo/reverb/eq/volume).

MIDI is a little trickier. None of that list "work" on MIDI data. VST <instruments> convert MIDI data to audio, after which you do all the audio stuff. Feed MIDI into an audio modifier and you get... nothing !

So your chain then goes MIDI -> MIDI modifiers (i.e. note filters, chord/arp/octave, but still MIDI) -> VST instrument -> (audio) distortion/echo/reverb/eq/volume , and to output.

If you want your track to output to an external synth, DON'T process it with audio filters, but allow MIDI through to the output MIDI interface wired to that MIDI IN on the synth. If needed, THEN route it back into another track for processing, or possibly use a MIDI Insert plugin
(?? conceptually that would work; don't know if it exists B-). ).

Others, if you use them, must be in the right place - like a MIDI monitor can only capture/forward MIDI events; and a spectrum analyzer dropped in anywhere you have audio.

[fde101]

For external instruments I believe you can alternatively use the "Insert" plugin to send to a MIDI output and receive from an audio input. That keeps it all on one track, but complicates recording of the audio data.