Wow, guys. Thank you for all your help and suggestions. It paid off bigtime! I've been to all of your websites and read help and tips, and listened to your music. They are incredible. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and talent.
It occurred to me that you guys are using your hardware and software to record from line-in inputs/direct midi/ for guitar, vocals and keyboards into audio and midi tracks. You probably also include a soft-synth here and there to add various parts (drums, bass, brass, strings, etc)
Unfortunately for me, I only know a few guitar chords and can't play keyboards very well, in spite of lessons in the past on both! Therefore I cannot at this time duplicate your recording methods and techniques.
I am using only soft-synths to bring to life one of the genres that I have an interest in. In my quest to find some worthy samples, I, this time, found one that was very good but quite bloated in size because of the number of samples it contained. This caused a problem for MC-x(5) because there is only so much that a user can stuff into this program before it won't allow any more. The standard GS wavetable instruments are very skinny compared to what I was trying to do. I would not comprimise quality, and Music Creator fought back!
But, thanks to your suggestions and comments, you all pointed me in the right direction and I have resolved this issue completely! Here's what I had to do:
- Create a new midi track (actually [Insert] [Soft-Synth] and then my VST Plug-in).
- Write out all the events for that track in staff view, and when satisfied with the result:
- Bounce to track, creating an audio track.
- Mute the original midi track, but it's still usable in Staff view (you can see the notes and events still)
- [HERE's THE KEY] go to Synth Rack and DELETE the soft synth from the rack. (I tried first to click the Power Button to turn it off, but that didn't allow inserting an additional track when it became full) Never even looked at the Synth Rack before, so this was a good tip!
- Repeat the process
I had reached the roadblock with 3 soft fonts installed (winds) and 2 VST pugins (strings). Deleting soft-synths from the Synth Rack allows more and more instances of my very bloated VST plugin, and allowed me to finish my project. I ended up with 14 tracks. MC allowed me to keep the midi tracks so that I could see all the events in staff view (7 midi tracks) plus the 7 audio tracks that carried the actual sounds (with midi tracks muted).
Thanks, guys! Always appreciated. You are the best!
If you are curious, I posted the MP3 of my project. It's another Mozart: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, K-191, 1st movement: Adagio. It's actually written for Principal Bassoon, Two Oboes, Two French Horns, Violins, Violas, Cellos and Double Bass. Seven tracks in all. It sounds really great, though some few parts are not tweaked yet. There is a problen with Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release settings in some of the string parts causing some latency issues that make it sound out of sync at times.
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With much respect to all,
Dan