Bounce in place on external midi not working

External midi instruments must be bounced in real time, so are not capable of bounce in place. Solo and use the realtime bounce with add to audio bin checked. Put in arrange and use "region to original recorded position" and it will know where it goes on the time line.

Hi

Ijeoma wrote:

ok got it , any external synth HAS to be recorded in real time as an audio track , even when using the instrumnt plug in method.

Not exactly:

If you intended to use "bounce in place" with external MIDI you are out of luck, so you will need to convert to audio using methods described earlier.

You could simply leave the External Synth running "live", and just do the final Bounce in realtime.

CCT

Hi

Ijeoma wrote:

So let me get this straight, even though I am using an "Instrument Track" with the external synth plugin, I cannot bounce like the manual suggests. I was under the impression that so long as you use the method of hosting the external sythn as if it were a software synth via a Instrument track/external midi plug in the I/O one could then bounce the track to audio as if it were a software synth but you say oterwise no.

In a nutshell, any external MIDI instrument requires a "feed" of real-time MIDI information to 'do it's thing'. This cannot happen with an offline bounce, so you have to Bounce in Real-time.

Ijeoma wrote:

Are you saying I need to create an audio track and re-record the track as audio, or is there another way to realtime bounce?

You could either:

set the output of your "External Software Instrument" Channel to a bus, create an audio track with that bus as an input, then record as normal

or

Create an audio track with the inputs assigned to the inputs where your external synth are, and record as normal

or

Solo the "External Software Instrument" channel, use File:Bounce (or the Bounce button etc) and select RealTime in the Bounce Dialog box. Then import the audio back into the Project.

Ijeoma wrote:

if you cannot bounce an external midi as suggested, what is the purpose of the external midi plugin?

It makes a basic External Instrument setup easier: select a Software Instrument channel, add the Plugin and setup MIDI Channels and audio returns in one go.

hth

CCT

For further clarification purposes...

• Realtime: Creates the bounce file in real time. Use this setting when you want to bounce audio and instrument tracks, plus external MIDI sound sources that are routed into the Logic Pro Mixer via aux channels.

  
  

• Offline: Accelerates the bounce process, depending on the complexity of your arrangement and available system processing power. This setting also allows you to bounce arrangements that would normally exceed the processing power of your system, if trying to play them in real time. Offline bouncing is limited to internal sources (audio or instrument tracks). External MIDI tracks and audio channel inputs are deactivated during offline bounces. The Offline Bounce mode is only available to the output channels of devices that use native audio driver systems (Core Audio). DSP-based audio hardware cannot make use of offline bouncing due to the nature of its stream-oriented technology. (In other words, these devices only work in real time.) Other software applications that are fed into your Logic Pro Mixer via ReWire can be bounced offline.

  
  

  See this link for a full explanation of the Bounce parameters..

  
  

  http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicpro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=29%26se ction=4%26hash=apple_ref:doc:uid:TempBookID-ReplacedWhenAssociatingWithMessierRe vision-43984BOU_SC_0916-1007823