no sound from midi with piano roll - pls help a newbie!!

nachtstrom · Post by **nachtstrom** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:02 am

hello!
i am really ashamed to ask such a simple question but i am relatively new to live (4) and cannot find the solution for my problem...
when i load a vsti into live and instead of playing it with the midi keyboard want to paint the midi notes with the mouse in the piano roll i hear the sound of the instrument- but only if i start the track from the beginning- if i start in the middle there is no sound anymore. also if i render the track the sound of the vst instrument is not there. if i play the vsti with my keyboard and record ist everything seems fine! but as said before if i paint the notes with the mouse the sound is only availible if i restart the track from beginning.. can please anybody give me a advice what to do, that would be extremely fine!
sorry for my bad english
greetings from austria
walter

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:04 pm

That's not a dumb question because I've been using Live for a while and I can't figure out your problem either.

Seems like you should be able to do this.

I tried this out and when I tried to draw in notes the cursor turned into a "You Can't Do That" symbol.

I'll fiddle around and see what I can do...

telekom · Post by **telekom** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:38 pm

Hi folks,
I seem to get the sound going ok when i try this... I used CM303 on a midi track, drew some notes in a loop, it played ok, I tried starting within the loop and that was ok, I tried recording some stuff to the arrangement and tried playing from 20 bars in... and it was OK. Maybe I'm picking you up wrong? I know that if you have a long note programmed in to a sequencer and you start playing within the length of the note, you won't hear it as the note on message has not been played. But it doesn't sound like this is your problem...

What is actually happening when you try to do this?