Skyline_UK
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Convert soft synth track to audio...how exactly?
I usually use my Roland Fantom to record audio from midi tracks, obviously in real time. But I'm also using Halion Sonic, and I can't see for the life of me how to 'bounce' this track to an audio track. I've followed the Help file instructions and nothing gets recorded. I have a midi track with the notes on, outputting to a Halion Sonic instrument track. I tried bouncing the first track down and found that was obviously wrong and then tried bouncing down the Halion Sonic track and that made a recording on a separate audio track, but a blank recording. I've exhausted the permutations here. What am I doing wrong? 
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Re:Convert soft synth track to audio...how exactly?
2011/10/08 05:57:57
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I use Halion Sonic and Fantom X also!
To convert HS. Select both the midi and audio out select range and bounce to new track.
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Re:Convert soft synth track to audio...how exactly?
2011/10/08 05:58:08
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I might be missing the point (not familiar with Sonic, assume it behaves like other VSTi's) Freezing the track bounces the audio down. I normally just use Simple Instrument Tracks, which you can bounce down.
post edited by Bigdogs - 2011/10/08 06:25:41
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Skyline_UK
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Re:Convert soft synth track to audio...how exactly?
2011/10/08 06:37:28
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backwoods
I use Halion Sonic and Fantom X also!
To convert HS. Select both the midi and audio out select range and bounce to new track.
Ah, that's it. I was selecting one or the other instead of both. Many thanks. 
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Re:Convert soft synth track to audio...how exactly?
2011/10/08 08:33:36
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Why?
I hardly ever freeze/bounce VSTis - I don't see the need.
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Re:Convert soft synth track to audio...how exactly?
2011/10/08 08:42:35
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Twigman
Why?
I hardly ever freeze/bounce VSTis - I don't see the need.
Actually, you've got a good point. I was making the same mistake as the OP. Thanks to both of you for educating me Simon
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Re:Convert soft synth track to audio...how exactly?
2011/10/08 09:22:56
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freezing/bouncing releases cpu resources
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Skyline_UK
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Re:Convert soft synth track to audio...how exactly?
2011/10/08 11:54:08
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As I said, I use a Roland Fantom X6 a lot, and if I have some MIDI tracks still playing through my Fantom external workstation then I can only bounce a final mix in real time, and that wastes a lot of time when I create a number of different final mix attempts. So I like to convert all my MIDI tracks to audio before I mix down, and then I'm only working with audio.
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Re:Convert soft synth track to audio...how exactly?
2011/10/08 11:58:32
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As I said, I use a Roland Fantom X6 a lot, and if I have some MIDI tracks still playing through my Fantom external workstation then I can only bounce a final mix in real time,
Thats one of the woes of using outboard synths. Cj
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