I am new to the world of Synth and my apology if this has been covered elsewhere. I have an issue when recording a sequence playing to my DAW (Logic Pro X). The sound during the recording is muffled.
I set up an External Instrument with the MIDI destination directing to my minilogue XD. If the recording button for the track is enabled, then the sound is muffled when the sequencer is playing back. As soon as I disabled the recording button or set the MIDI destination to empty, then the sequence play back is fine. I have also tried a similar set up using Ableton and the same is observed. I have tried with Local SW set to off and to no avail.
It is not a showstopper as I can still record the sequencer but with the MIDI destination set to empty and enable it when I want to use the Minilogue XD as the hardware synth. But I am just curious to know if I am the only one with the issue and if there is a solution without there workaround.
I am running the latest firmware version of 2.10 and 10.5 Logic Pro X. Thank you for reading and I would appreciate any advise on this.
Tom
Muffled sequencer sound in an External Instrument track
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It is possible you are already hearing the Minilogue back and when record armed the DAW passes the signal through and "doubles" it. This can result in cancellation of some frequencies.
Audio tracks tend to have a "software monitoring" on/off switch somewhere, that tells the DAW whether to pass the signal through or not. You could try turning that off.
External Instrument plugins can cause more headaches and complexity, because they are trying to treat the external Instrument as a plugin when really it is not.
I usually end up using a separate audio and MIDI track to keep better control of what is going on. You could try that, even if it is just to help debug the situation?
Audio tracks tend to have a "software monitoring" on/off switch somewhere, that tells the DAW whether to pass the signal through or not. You could try turning that off.
External Instrument plugins can cause more headaches and complexity, because they are trying to treat the external Instrument as a plugin when really it is not.
I usually end up using a separate audio and MIDI track to keep better control of what is going on. You could try that, even if it is just to help debug the situation?
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Past Gear: Korg Karma, TR61, Poly800, EA-1, ER-1, ES-1, Kawai K1, Novation ReMote37SL, Boss GT-6B
Software: NI Komplete 10 Ultimate, Arturia V Collection, Ableton Live 9. Apple OSX El Capitan on 15" MacBook Pro