Printing MIDO to audio: can't hear audio

[dg27]

I'm new to MIDI and have successfully done what I'm posting about several times, but today I'm having issues.

I have two MIDI percussion tracks created with EZDrummer.

The session file plays these tracks as expected.

I want to print them to audio for mixing.

I created two stereo audio tracks and set the output for 'Percussion 1' to bus 9-10. I set the input for track 'Percussion 1A' (A for audio) to bus 9-10.

I did the same thing for 'Percussion 2' and '2A,' uses busses 11-12.

I soloed both the source and destination, armed the destination tracks, and hit record.

The meters on both the source and destination tracks responded as they should.

The outputs on the destination audio tracks are set the same as the rest of the mix. There are waveforms on the tracks. But nothing is audible and the meters do not respond when I play the track.

Here is a screenshot of the routing.



This is driving me mad. If anyone can suggest what I'm doing wrong I'd greatly appreciate it.

What kills me is that the session has three other audio tracks printed from MIDI as described above. I had no problem with those.

 

[GoldenVulture]

Re: Printing MIDO to audio: can't hear audio

I'm new to MIDI and have successfully done what I'm posting about several times, but today I'm having issues.

I have two MIDI percussion tracks created with EZDrummer.

The session file plays these tracks as expected.

I want to print them to audio for mixing.

I created two stereo audio tracks and set the output for 'Percussion 1' to bus 9-10. I set the input for track 'Percussion 1A' (A for audio) to bus 9-10.

I did the same thing for 'Percussion 2' and '2A,' uses busses 11-12.

I soloed both the source and destination, armed the destination tracks, and hit record.

The meters on both the source and destination tracks responded as they should.

The outputs on the destination audio tracks are set the same as the rest of the mix. There are waveforms on the tracks. But nothing is audible and the meters do not respond when I play the track.

Here is a screenshot of the routing.

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This is driving me mad. If anyone can suggest what I'm doing wrong I'd greatly appreciate it.

What kills me is that the session has three other audio tracks printed from MIDI as described above. I had no problem with those.

M , your monitor button on that track ? Enable it.

 

[dg27]

Re: Printing MIDI to audio: can't hear audio

Re: Printing MIDI to audio: can't hear audio

Thanks, GV. "M" in PT land is mute. In the screenshot the MIDI tracks are muted (when I was trying to play the audio tracks).

It kills me because I've have no issues with several other tracks and a couple of sessions.

 

[GoldenVulture]

Re: Printing MIDI to audio: can't hear audio

Re: Printing MIDI to audio: can't hear audio

Thanks, GV. "M" in PT land is mute. In the screenshot the MIDI tracks are muted (when I was trying to play the audio tracks).

It kills me because I've have no issues with several other tracks and a couple of sessions.

I'm not familiar with the PT interface.
Is there a monitor enable/disable with each track ? or Solo.
Check the track output routing.
Maybe try routing it to your main stereo out and see if you can hear it.

 

[dg27]

Re: Printing MIDO to audio: can't hear audio

The "S" is solo. The track routing is as it should be.

 

[dg27]

Re: Printing MIDO to audio: can't hear audio

As a workaround I bounced the MIDI tracks to disk and imported the .wav files to new audio tracks at the start of the session, so the problem is solved. But I'd still like to know why printing to audio tracks failed.

Thanks.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Printing MIDO to audio: can't hear audio

Dumb questions:
Did you arm the tracks you are bouncing down to? Did you do it in real time? Not all DAWs allow you to render without playing the song in real time. In Logic there is a feature called Bounce In Place which will take any multiple number of tracks and bounce them down to a separate, stereo, track. Not sure how this is done in PT.

 

[dg27]

Re: Printing MIDO to audio: can't hear audio

Yes. The meters jumped on both source and destination and there were waveforms on the destination tracks.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Re: Printing MIDO to audio: can't hear audio

I never tried this approach before. Normally this is done by exporting the MIDI track into audio or converting the MIDI track into audio track.

 

[dg27]

Re: Printing MIDO to audio: can't hear audio

Thanks--I eventually did it by export but have done it this way as well.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Printing MIDO to audio: can't hear audio

Someone needs the PT12 Power Users book!

 

[dg27]

Re: Printing MIDO to audio: can't hear audio

Yes--you're right. I'll tweet Santa.

But in this case I did what I described on two sessions over the past couple of weeks without incident.

Thanks.