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How Do Hardware Synths Playback And Record?
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| trancenrg69 |
Hey Everyone, I got a question for those with hardware. I never used hardware before and I'm curious as to how hardware is connected and how you record and playback in a sequencer. Does it work like vsti, where u make melodies in the piano roll and play back in realtime? I notice on the back of a virus c there are 6 outputs and midi in/out. Does each output record 1 track of audio? So if i had a soundcard with 6 inputs i could record 6 seperate tracks of virus c?
If anyone can explain all this that would be great, I hate not knowing these things even though i dont have hardware yet, i plan to very soon so i just wanna know what everything does. thanks
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| ManTrance |
| I'll 2nd this. Have always wondered it myself aswell. Will want Hardware in the future. |
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| Damie Mckeown |
This is what I know, The midi sequenced in your computer is sent to the Hardware Sound module and into your mixer, all in real time.
If you want to put it back into your card an onto an audio channel again, your gonna get some latency, so you tend to record it, not in real time.
But some sequencers have a 'Delay time' setup for hardware where it can match up its time by sending the signal a bit earlier than the rest so by the time it comes back its in sync with the track.
If you have a good mixer with effects though you would use that.
As for more than one channel, some of these synths are multi-tibre and you can send 16 different sounds/channels at a time. Not sure if you can effect them differently however because it may only have 1 stereo output, Im guessing thats more complex |
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