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I'm wondering if its possible to route the sound coming from a midi channel in live to a audio channel where i can record that sound as a clip.

seems like this could save a bit of cpu when playing live, going directly to an audio clip to loop a melody i play rather than having the vsti continue to play it.

thanks.

Of course you can! This is Live after all...on the fly sampling and looping is the name of the game.

Either set an audio track's input to Resample. This will capture all that comes out on the master fader. Arm and record a clip, press play. Or set the input to the midi track you want to capture.

your second option is what i want to do, because i don't want to capture everything from teh master just this midi channel but i'm not seeing a way to set it to just the midi track, i see resample, ext in, and FL studio, no choice to select a midi track alone.

any advice?

Try loading an instrument into the track you want to record from...You can't route audio from a an empty midi track.