I always use VST plugins this way:
1. load the VST on a MIDI track
2. create more MIDI tracks for each midi channels played by the instrument
The problem is when I drop an FX on the MIDI track created for playing separate midi channels, Live re-set the outputs of the track to an audio track automatically...
Did u know what I mean?
Why is Live acting like this?
thx
add vst FX on multi-MIDI track
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Hi,
you have to figure out what "midi" and "audio" tracks are meant for...
Of course Live switches the output of a midi track to audio if you drop an audio effect on that track, because Live assumes that you want to add this effect to an instrument that's supposed to be in front of that effect.
If you want to add an audio effect to your sounds you have to add them to the channel where the instrument (or audio file) is. If you wanna have different audio effects on the seperate channels, the VST instrument must have multiple outputs...
Hope this helps...
Stefan
you have to figure out what "midi" and "audio" tracks are meant for...
Of course Live switches the output of a midi track to audio if you drop an audio effect on that track, because Live assumes that you want to add this effect to an instrument that's supposed to be in front of that effect.
If you want to add an audio effect to your sounds you have to add them to the channel where the instrument (or audio file) is. If you wanna have different audio effects on the seperate channels, the VST instrument must have multiple outputs...
Hope this helps...
Stefan
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Live turns a midi track into an audio output if you drop a VST midi FX into the track too. This shouldn't happen in my opinion and it doesn't happen if you drop a Live midi FX into a midi track. You can cascade Live's midi effects in one track but you can't do this with third party plugs... well, not any that I have found.
It would be nice if you could use third party midi plugs without having to route the midi output from the midi plug in into a second midi track set to ON.
So what the OP needs to do is open a new midi track and tell Live, via the pull down menus, to take its input from the output of the FX in the original track. Its more complex but it doesn't always work.
It would be nice if you could use third party midi plugs without having to route the midi output from the midi plug in into a second midi track set to ON.
So what the OP needs to do is open a new midi track and tell Live, via the pull down menus, to take its input from the output of the FX in the original track. Its more complex but it doesn't always work.
What plugin are you talking about?
And you mean "multitimbral" and not "polyphonic".
Some multitimbral plugins have multiple outputs, in which case you should route these individual outs each to their own seperate Audio track, and apply specific FX there.
Otherwise, a MIDI track is just notes.
Reverb, or any other audio plugin, cannot be applied to notes. Only to sound.
And if your sound is all mixed together on one audio track, you can't unmix it and apply a reverb to just one patch from a multitimbral instrument.
If your multitimbral plugin does not have seperate outputs, just recrod each sound seperately, and apply FX to the distinct audio tracks.
And you mean "multitimbral" and not "polyphonic".
Some multitimbral plugins have multiple outputs, in which case you should route these individual outs each to their own seperate Audio track, and apply specific FX there.
Otherwise, a MIDI track is just notes.
Reverb, or any other audio plugin, cannot be applied to notes. Only to sound.
And if your sound is all mixed together on one audio track, you can't unmix it and apply a reverb to just one patch from a multitimbral instrument.
If your multitimbral plugin does not have seperate outputs, just recrod each sound seperately, and apply FX to the distinct audio tracks.
Oh yeah try this:
create MIDI track.
Add MIDI plugins (like octave shift)
Add an instrument (like Simpler)
add audio plugins (like compressor)
Now you have MIDI and Audio on one track, just like cubase.
And just like cubase, you can't change the order. You can't add a MIDI octave shift after a VSTi, only before. And you can't compress MIDI notes, only audio that was made from those notes.
create MIDI track.
Add MIDI plugins (like octave shift)
Add an instrument (like Simpler)
add audio plugins (like compressor)
Now you have MIDI and Audio on one track, just like cubase.
And just like cubase, you can't change the order. You can't add a MIDI octave shift after a VSTi, only before. And you can't compress MIDI notes, only audio that was made from those notes.