Dimension Pro Question(s)

It sounds like your problem is that Acid Music Studio isn't set up properly. In that case case you should expect the same problems with Dimension Pro since it is just a plugin and Acid is the host.

Can I record the actual music, instruments and such from the keyboard onto the Dimension Pro without succumbing to using the program's synths?

Im not sure what you mean by that since Dimension Pro is a synth. Any recording you would do would normally be into the host (Acid).

Acid should record your keyboard. I don't use it much (it runs real slow on my system) and I've never used it to record linear music, but it should work just like all the other synths.

Try hooking up your yama via the line outs into your line inputs on your soundcard (you don't mention what kind you have- but I suppose it is something more than an onboard soundcard). Otherwise, if your yama outputs sound via the usb interface you can use that. Look under options>preferences>audio devices and see what hardware input is available. This is not midi, but sound.

Midi is simply info that tells your computer to tell an external synth or internal softsynth to play this note at this time at this velocity and hold it for this long (it can tell a lot more, but that is the basis). It is like typing on your keyboard into MS Word. You can edit it after the fact. The midi info from your keyboard is recorded to the computer and then from the computer is later re-routed back to your synth or another synth. What you hear when you play the keyboard itself is the yama midi playing itself. If you want to record the actual sound you need to use a LINE output/input. If you want to record the midi performance you need to use a midi in/out.

Dimension is a softsynth - a synth your computer powers (just like the yama cpu inside your keyboard). It is a rompler like most Yama keyboards. You can grab samples (snippets) of a sound, but only use them as oscillators within Dimension, rather than capturing an entire performance.

hope this helps.

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Try hooking up your yama via the line outs into your line inputs on your soundcard (you don't mention what kind you have- but I suppose it is something more than an onboard soundcard). Otherwise, if your yama outputs sound via the usb interface you can use that. Look under options>preferences>audio devices and see what hardware input is available. This is not midi, but sound.

Yah, I've been down that route a hundred times already. As I understand it, it's a choice between doing Audio through the audio jack which works quite fine OR doing Midi through the USB which records simply piano notes as I'd mentioned.
My reasoning behind preferring Midi is only because it's all digital with truly clear sound. Through Audio on the other hand there is that 'noise' and slight 'feedback'.

Midi is simply info that tells your computer to tell an external synth or internal softsynth to play this note at this time at this velocity and hold it for this long (it can tell a lot more, but that is the basis). It is like typing on your keyboard into MS Word. You can edit it after the fact. The midi info from your keyboard is recorded to the computer and then from the computer is later re-routed back to your synth or another synth. What you hear when you play the keyboard itself is the yama midi playing itself. If you want to record the actual sound you need to use a LINE output/input. If you want to record the midi performance you need to use a midi in/out.

I think I'm getting what you're saying. And I guess everything is working as it should...I figure.
Heck, I can insert a softsynth instrument within Acid Studio and play it using the keyboard....and yes, it works that way. I guess I thought things would've been better than they are.

Does what I'm saying make sense? Hmmm, hope so. 'or am I way off base in my understanding of all this?
BTW, thanks for the reply.

ORIGINAL: kennywtelejazz

ORIGINAL: CyberFyber


Heck, I can insert a softsynth instrument within Acid Studio and play it using the keyboard....and yes, it works that way. I guess I thought things would've been better than they are.

Does what I'm saying make sense? Hmmm, hope so. 'or am I way off base in my understanding of all this?

CyberFyber,
I have Sony Acid Studio 6 ....and I like it ...
got it after getting beat on E Bay for Acid Pro 5
also have the Dimension Pro...Exellent Synth..
I just opened a Midi file and selected the Dimension Pro as my play back synth.....
to make the Dimension Pro an audio track, you do that by rendering it ...in Acid Studio
the drop down menue has a Render As option .....in my case I looped the whole track
the audio track I did is now a 16 bit wave ...
If you want to just record midi and then use a diferent soft synth later on...record your midi tracks ...however you feel comfortable and then save the file as a Sony Acid Project file ...then you can add whatever synths you want later....or change them to your taste
the render as will convert the softsynths to audio
ex
Wave , MP3 ......WMA....
which you can add and loop and chop to pieces...and incorporate in projects.....

hope this helps some
Kenny

yeah Kenny, thanks. I'm familiarizing myself a whole lot more now with Acid Studio capabilities. All I had to do to perk my interest was to begin downloading free soft Synths here and there.
Please tell me though, is Dimension Pro truly 'All That'? Somehow I've no doubt, but I'm thinking about the price tag. I COULD get a major discount as a student, but just wondering is all. To be honest, I'm excited to be getting back into all of this [even as a newbie] after having taken off for a few days to deal with other obligations.

I bet your Yamaha keyboard is set to multitimbral mode as default. and if that is the case the piano patch is channel one, sequencer and midi. Now you can change the track one midi channel one on the Yamaha to anything you want. and you can have midi from Sonar feeding 16 different channels to that keyboard depending on what the model you have.


To get the audio from the keyboard to the computer record the midi to Sonar then record to audio one instrument at a time into Sonar using the computer to trigger the sounds.

If you were using any kind of softsynth you could record the midi then edit/bounce to track and the compouter would create one stereo audio track new and write the audio to it. almost that fast.

Opps Acid not Sonar. But hey it works just a tad different. I use Vegas 6/SoundForge.

Recording midi from an external keyboad is similer. then just set a stereo track to record the audio and press play on the midi track.

I have a few external boxes left but I use mostly all softsynths now, everything stays in the box, and when I need audio I bounce and go from there. An interenal softsynth bounce is fast, no levels to set, no external noise to deal with.

Oh and I do use Sonar, P5 and have Dpro, Rapture, Z3ta, Pentagon. Having that much power in the box makes doing it fun.

ORIGINAL: kennywtelejazz
Recently somewhere on the forums a few fellas mentioned that Guitar Center was having a sale on the Z3TA+ for $ 99.00 .
I needed a souncard for my other computer first so I got the card ,
I did manange to download the Z3TA+ demo and man ....I love that synth....
I'm gonna be real sad when the demo expires
If you havn't tried that one yet download the demo
The Z3TA+ Kicks Butt...
Kenny

Oh Man!...I'M IN LOVE!
'Downloaded the demo and there I was dancing in my chair to that awesome techno beat of Z3TA+ . Geez, I can't get over how it's so clear, crisp and cool. Thanks for mentioning it Kenny.

Just called my local Guitar Center Store to make sure they had it and that it wasn't just an online special. YUP! They've got it for $99.99 IN STORE and the fella mentioned that they pronounce it as: ZETA.

Soooo, off I go this evening to get it before this sale runs out.