How do I get FL Studio to play a Scope device?

sonicstrav · Post by **sonicstrav** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 4:17 pm

Do I use a MIDI OUT device in FL Studio? but I get no output even though its set to ASIO Scope and Creamware Play/Rec 1 in the properties in FL studio and it ahows 'CW sync'. The scope devices get no midi signal even though I have set up the right midi channel and it is properly routed ?????

pling · Post by **pling** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 4:49 pm

i remember something like an "activate midi communication" somewhere in the "top-left menue". i can't check it now because i just tested the demo some months ago.

borg · Post by **borg** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:38 pm

i'm not a FL user, but some of my 'guests' are... i remember having had similar difficulties. we did all the steps you pointed out, however, we had forgotten to select a 'port' in the midi channel/device or whatever it is called in FL to get midi to the outputs (RME in our case).

how that helps.

sonicstrav · Post by **sonicstrav** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:43 pm

Thanks Guys

sonicstrav · Post by **sonicstrav** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:10 pm

Still getting nowhere

I'm trying to use a MIDI OUT plug in FL Studio on one of the channels but the MIDI data isn't getting to the sequencer midi module in Scope - I hear nothing. Could someone please post the steps I need to do to get I simple connection ( I am testing only with EZ Synth and a simple mixer as a scope project)

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:51 am

In FL Studio make sure you select, under "options", "enable MIDI output". That's usually off by default.

Then in your "midi out" module make sure the port number matches the port number in your "options > MIDI settings" panel.

In that panel you'll have "creamware MIDI in/out1" as yout output port mapping.

Likewise Creamware for your master sync output.

That's about it.

The real trick is not so much triggering CWA synths from FL Studio, but recording the MIDI sequence back as audio.... (rather than just the clumsy soundforge/ tape recorder style method).

S

sonicstrav · Post by **sonicstrav** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:00 pm

Great Thanks

I didn't turn on Enable MIDI output in FL Studio.

Now...How do you record the audio from a Scope synth in FL Studio from a MIDI sequence ?

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Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:42 pm

To do it properly you need FL Studio 5 (just released).

Just set your input & output in the FL mixer to Scope, press the disk icon to name the save file & location, then solo the track, enable loop record, and start recording (real time).

In your save location you'll see that each "loop" of the track produces a separate wave file

. If you stop the track halfway through then you'll get a partial loop. So delete the leftover mess.

Sometimes I'm finding that the "cut" doesn't seem absolutely perfect, but just record double the sequence length and chop it in half in the host you're importing to.

In this way FL works brilliantly well with SFP - don't need XTC mode

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sonicstrav · Post by **sonicstrav** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:18 pm

Thanks for the reply