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MIDI: Recording and Playback
Advantages of Audio Instruments: With the virtual
Audio Instruments, the advantages and disadvantages of
both MIDI and Audio Recordings are “equalized”:
– You can play as many tracks as the audio engine is able
to produce audio material on your computer.
– No external instruments are needed for play-back.
– One audio instrument can be called up several times.
– High consumption of computing power.
– Precise and consistent time resolution.
Recording Notes and Playing Them Back with
Sound Generators
You use the keyboard to play notes into your computer.
The computer will forward the notes in real-time to a
sound generator so you can hear what you are playing.
This always applies, even if the output is stopped (Stop),
paused (Pause), recording (Record) or playing back (Play).
Very important: If you are working with a keyboard with
an integrated sound generator, you must set Local Off!
Recording always takes place on the currently highlighted
track in the Arrange window. Every track will be assigned
to a MIDI output (MIDI Out) and a MIDI channel (Chan-
nel).
If you are working with only one General MIDI
Instrument…
…and your MIDI interface has only one MIDI output, you
may use the empty default song, which is opened upon
start-up of MAGIX midi studio generation 6, and imme-
diately record and play-back MIDI notes. The same ap-
plies for sound generators with a GS logo (Roland) or XG
logo (Yamaha) as well as for any other sound generator
with up to 16x multi-mode.
Creating a new Track
To create a new track in the Arrange window:
– Select Functions > Track > Create MIDI Track.
– At the left side of the screen, just below the box with
those nice little tools like scissors etc. in it, you find the
track parameter box. Here you can select an icon for the
new track: Just click-hold on the icon and select one out
of the appearing flipmenu.
– In the parameter-field below the icon you can select the
MIDI channel for the track. This setting has to match
the MIDI channel on which your sound generator
receives MIDI data.
– Again a parameter-field below you can select the MIDI
port of your interface, to which your sound generator is
connected.