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I've got Fruity's new FL Studio 4 app, but am having trouble recording Pulsar synths...

Basically I want to trigger Pulsar synths by MIDI from FL Studio, then record the sound into a Fruity audio track.

I can get the MIDI record and playback thing working fine. But after that I run into two problems:

1) FL Studio switches off ASIO input during non real-time record, so I can't use non-realtime.
2) In real-time record you don't get a perfect cut wav file

I don't want to record in real-time since then you just end up with a wav file which stops whenever you happened to hit the stop button. I can get the same thrill using Soundforge...

So I thought I'd send the signal into FL by wave, but can't figure out how to do this.

I look at other peoples' input and output audio options (pics posted in Looptalk) and they have all these different options ! I have only ASIO Scope.

I'm getting a bit tired of rereading the same parts of the FL manual over and over again trying to squeeze out some extra information.

Can anyone help ?

thanks


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Spirit on 2003-03-13 08:59 ]</font>

I haven't got an exact solution for you, but I know that FLstudio only supports recording via ASIO.

From fruityloops.com:

"Track recording with ASIO input channels support"

This explains why nothing else than "ASIO Scope" is selectable in FLStudio.

cheers
Trond

Hmmm.... well pics on the techsupport forum show all sorts of different inputs being used as the record source...

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Spirit on 2003-03-13 08:59 ]</font>

Well, it makes perfect sense. Whatever input driver you may select, you'll never be able to record external sound sources in non-realtime.

Remember that anything coming from CW cards communicates with your computer in EXACTLY the same way as, lets say, a guitar or any other external hardware you may have, coming through any I/O card on the market. Think about this: how could you possibly sing in non-realtime?

Non-realtime rendering is only possible with plug-ins that reside on the host computer. It's simply because this way, the host software can say to the soft plug-in: "Hey, no underclocked humans are listening now, just give me 5 million samples using this score.".

Ok, it's a bit of an oversimplification but it illustrates the process without having to go in excessively technical details.



P.S.: The FL4 manual only mentions ASIO for recording and, I can't get anything else to work either. I have no idea how they got anything else as a sound source. Photoshop maybe.



RedSun .:.

Yes, I can see my fundamental error. I suppose the good compromise would be if there was a real-time record options that basically said "play and record the selected pattern length and wrap remainder". At present the only options are time-based.

Thanks.