USB rendering
Jazz Paladin | Posted on 28 Nov 2021, 08:48 AM Is there any easy way to sync all the multitrack renderings that are done for a song? Since you have to manually press the record button and whatever is the source of the original midi file, I would imagine it could be tricky getting things aligned again if you can’t render all tracks simultaneously? |
KODAMO | Posted on 29 Nov 2021, 05:01 PM Hi,There is currently no way to sync the usb audio renderings. It's not easy to think about a feature that could help, since it has to accomodate many ways of using it (MIDI file playback, manual playing...) but we'll take any suggestions. Currently I would simply sync the tracks by ear in an audio editor. For sample-perfect accuracy (which is often not needed!) I would put a note at the beginning of each track so you can then use it to overlap all tracks perfectly |
| Jazz Paladin | Posted on 29 Nov 2021, 05:29 PM Thanks for taking the time to read this.I would imagine keeping the process internal would be easier than syncing to a different source. As long as it even one option to keep things in sync, it would be better than none. If it is playing back a midi file via usb stick, that would probably be easy since it could always capture each track from 0:00 . Otherwise, my personal dream would be a midi recorder built in to Essence some day to accomplish the same thing, but I could imagine that would be more of an undertaking. Or even temporarily hold midi notes captured from a multitrack midi source into ram until each output can be processed independently… |
Teomi | Posted on 05 Dec 2021, 04:26 AM Since USB multitrack audio render is out of scope of the EFM (and quite honestly almost all synths out there) there are 2 options:1) Make effective use of the multi outs and the multitimbrality features of the EFM so you can potentially record up to 8 mono outputs at once. 2) record track by track. Either way, you will have to create an audio "slate" like Kodamo suggested. I usually add a 4 beat pulse type sound (like a metronome) so it's easy to sync up later on. If you zoom in enough syncing is super easy and even if you have lots of tracks, it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to get all of it synced up. |
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