PreSonus Firebox speaker/midi setup

Hello
I'm recording a song. I've recorded the bass line on the midi keyboard. At the moment I can hear everything (vocals and guitar) back through the studio speakers except the bass line which is playing through the keyboard amp. How do I set this midi input to play through the studio speakers?

Cheers
Sarah

iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11), PreSonus firebox, Roland XP10, Logic Express 7

Posted on Jan 23, 2009 7:14 PM

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Feb 6, 2009 5:28 AM in response to SarahSpillane

I didn't understand the first part of BB's reply (even though it was posted twice!), but essentially this sounds like a method for recording your keyboard bassline as Audio.

If you don't want to record it as Audio (ever!), then you can assign an Audio Instrument to play that track instead of your keyboard. If you don't have a suitable Audio Instrument set up, it's not obvious how to do it but OTOH it isn't too hard either (just ask).

Feb 9, 2009 1:31 AM in response to SarahSpillane

Hello Sarah,

the problem is that you have recorded MIDI data on a MIDI track and that means that Logic send back to your keyboard all the notes etc. so that it plays the bass line.

If you want to use the keyboard bass sound then follow the suggestion proposed by BB, if you want to use a virtual instrument then create an Instrument track in Logic, choose an Instrument for that track and move the MIDI data from the previous track to this new one.

cheers

rob

Feb 9, 2009 5:07 AM in response to clangwork

Isn't it funny how three people can give essentially the same answer to one question, & manage to make it look like three different answers?

My profuse apologies for contributing to the general confusion.

I hope this is clearer:

There are three options —

• If you just want to HEAR (but not record) your keyboard playing the bassline through the studio speakers, then all you need to do is plug the keyboard audio outputs into your interface (Firebox?) instead of your keyboard amp. Then that means that the audio from your keyboard can be monitored in Logic (or possibly directly, bypassing Logic, using Firebox software). This is what BB said. The reason you can't hear it with the keyboard audio leads plugged into the keyboard amp is that what Logic has recorded so far is not audio, but MIDI; & MIDI is just data for producing sounds from instruments: it doesn't contain sounds in itself.

• If you want to hear AND RECORD your keyboard, then (again, as BB said) set it all up as above but with Logic set to record your bassline as audio on an Audio Track (probably mono, but just possibly stereo). Once you've recorded the audio, you will have two recordings of your bassline; one as audio (freshly recorded) & also the previously-recorded MIDI track. There doesn't seem to be an obvious reason for having both of these; everything will eventually end up as audio when it's been mixed, but OTOH the MIDI track has the advantage of being easy to edit & to chose different bassline sounds later if you should want to.

• If you don't particularly want your keyboard to provide the sound, but would be happy for software to do so instead, then you don't need to do all the setting up above. All you need to do is take the track you've already recorded your bassline onto, & assign it to an Audio Instrument (e.g. the EXS24 Sampler).

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