dubaholic Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Hi, first post here and maybe a very newbeeish question, but how can I record myself playing an instrument within Logic and record that directly as an audio file (and not midi file) all inside Logic ? Thanks for your help. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterboy Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Check out this thread and it might get you started .... THREAD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterboy Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Let me ask you this: do you have any experience with DAW's ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterboy Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Here's another link to help you get started: Apple Online Seminars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterboy Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Another helpful place to look is page 184 in the Logic Reference manual Not trying to be a wise guy - but the manual is a really good place to start! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubaholic Posted June 29, 2007 Author Share Posted June 29, 2007 Thank you for the interest, in fact I know how to record an external instrument into Logic, what I want to do now is set a virtual instrument on an instrument channel, then record directly what I'm playing on an audio channel. Let's say I'm setting the ES1 on Instrument 1 channel, hit record, play live with my keyboard, and the result is an audio file on the audio channel. I know how to record as a midi file then bouncing it as an audio file afterwards but what I want to do is record directly to audio when I'm playing. Do I make myself clearer ? Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterboy Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Funny you should ask this .... I have been toying around with something similar myself. But I think you are going to have to bounce that Audio Instrument to disk, then import into your Audio Window. I could be wrong - but if I am, then somebody will correct me. Sorry that I couldn'e be more help to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 The easiest way to do this would be to use Soundflower, which allows you to reroute the output of the Inst track to the input of an audio track which you can then record live. Check out the RESOURCES tab at the top of this website for a link (free download). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubaholic Posted June 29, 2007 Author Share Posted June 29, 2007 Soundflower's a great idea, thanks a lot for this, but now I clearly get latency when playing ! Arghhh... And I don't know yet how to reroute ONLY the output of the instrument track and not reroute the whole master output to the audio track, but anyway the latency makes the whole thing useless... Seems the only solution is to have 2 computers, using one as only a sound generator - like a hardware synth - ? mmmm..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 If you get latency, try this: Leave the Inst's output to Out 1-2. That way you still monitor the same way as you used to. Set a send to a Bus, and on that Bus' Channel Strip set the output to SoundFlower. Then in Audio > Audio Hardware and Drivers, uncheck "Software Monitoring" so as not to double-monitor the audio track along with the Instrument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubaholic Posted June 30, 2007 Author Share Posted June 30, 2007 Sorry, can't get my head around it !! The only way for me to monitor the same way as I used to - without latency - is to keep my audio card selected as the driver of choice in the audio preferences. If I select there as the driver the soundflower, I get latency when playing. And I don't know either how to set the output to Soundflower on a bus channel strip... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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