Bouncing MIDI drums to tracks

I've bounced my MIDI drums to tracks, but can't get any sound from the new track.

What should the inputs and outputs be for the new drum audio track?

Cheers

No Beagle, no waveform in the clip

that's a tedious way of bouncing.

not sure why bouncing doesn't work for you herb, I do it all the time, especially since 90% of my music is MIDI driven.

rob - if there's not a waveform in the audio track you bounced to, then it didn't work right.

make sure that when you're bouncing, you highlight both the MIDI and the DX OUTPUT tracks before selecting EDIT>BOUNCE TO TRACKS

here's a visual tutorial:

we're going to bounce the BASS GUITAR MIDI track. It uses TTS-1. notice the output of the MIDI track is set to the TTS-1 and the patch is set to Fretless Bass



Now, SOLO the MIDI Bass track and the TTS-1 DX OUTPUT Track (in this case track 1).
then click on the number beside the MIDI Bass track and it will turn a different color from the rest (it won't be exactly as mine because I have customized my colors)
then press the CONTROL key on the keyboard at the same time you're clicking on the number beside the TTS-1 DX OUTPUT track (in this case, track 7)
notice that the MIDI TRACK DATA (the waveform window) also turns dark grey for tracks which are highlighted.



Now, select EDIT>BOUNCE TO TRACKS



a new window will pop up asking you for parameters. NEW TRACK as the DESTINATION should already be default. just leave it there.
change the SOURCE CATEGORY to TRACKS
make sure the CHANNEL FORMAT is STEREO
and change the DITHERING to NONE (you don't need to dither for bouncing synths unless you KNOW why you need dithering)
click OK



after clicking OK, the progress bar will start at the bottom of the main MC/cakewalk window. if you don't have any data being sent to the softsynth, then this progress bar will move REALLY fast. if there's data, it will take a few seconds to finish, sometimes even a couple of minutes.



after the progress bar is finished, you should notice that cakewalk will insert the new AUDIO track at the bottom of your list of tracks (with the number it assigned from the window, in my case was 21). you should also notice now that this track will have AUDIO WAVEFORM in the track view and you should notice that the OUTPUT of this track defaults to the soundcard. you should make sure and change the output to the MASTER BUS (because I know everyone uses a master bus, right???? )



Now you're going to want to ARCHIVE the BASS MIDI track because you don't want both tracks sending sound to the master bus. you don't want to DELETE the MIDI track, just in case you ever want to come back and change the bass track.



notice that you must make sure that ONLY the track(s) you want to archive are highlighted (different color track number) if you leave BOTH tracks highlighted from the bouncing, then BOTH tracks will be archived, and you'll not get any more sound out of the TTS-1 softsynth for any OTHER MIDI tracks which might be sending data to it.



now you may want to HIDE your ARCHIVED MIDI track just to get it out of your way. hit "M" on your keyboard and it will bring a menu up. you can then choose which tracks to hide/unhide, etc.

HTH!

That's my drums bounced gentlemen, many thanks again.

Quick un - with all the tracks now converted to audio, what do I do with the TTS-1 track? Shouldn't need that now yea?

Yep cheers Mamabear

Sure. I didn't mean that to be so short--must have hit enter too soon. Anyway, if you want to edit the midi track later, you'll need that synth track too. That's what I meant to say.

Ah thanks Beagle!
Great tutorial, with pictures too!!!!

Thank you man

One thing i do at times is to delte the midi and stuff after i bounce, but I then save with a different name, like song1 or songaud. then if i want to go back and change stuff I can, or just keep working with the audio tracks.

I find it easier when that circumstance happens to freeze the track then clone the resulting wave to another track then unfreeze track and mute or archive the midi and its audio counterpart if your happy with the result.  Sometimes bouncing wasn't working even though I could hear the output it would record it with almost no volume or none (what's the differnce LOL).  Other times it did work which seemed purely random, very frustrating.  Hence I got happy with the workaround.  Other way would be as mentiond to export audio (main outputs) with just the drums playing and than import it back.

Surprised?  I think I was trying to get my 2 rambunctious grandsons to settle down for a Christmas picture at that point.  lol

No kidding! 

How did this 2 1/2 year old thread get bumped anyway? lol

I haven't been over here in quite awhile, obviously.  How's it going?

That's great!  I'll get over to the songs forum soon...I've got some to catch up with. 

Exactly!

So.... Janet, you decided to take the Christmas tree down after all......