things not to do...

[Glenn Stanton]

so, i'm in the process of working out the instrumentation on a new song, i have my VI guitars (Ample SJ and SC) and their basic MIDI. then decide, i'll make a copy of those tracks and tweak the MIDI. turns out i'm not sure i like the newer tracks, so i turn the MIDI level on those all the way down (leaving the original tracks on their normal level - 101 in this case).

i export a rough mix. my guitars are missing!!!! arrrrgggh!

i go back and now everytime i hit play, the volume on the SJ and SC drop to 0! check - cc7? ok i'm not injecting any change there, automation? nope not at that stage. mute the MIDI clip? nope nothing mysterious there still getting the volume turned down to 0. a few more minutes (and coffee), i realize:

if one of the MIDI tracks which is using the same VI as another MIDI track is set to 0,
then the VI master volume gets set to 0 and the other track with the volume set correctly is essentially ignored.

note to self - mute the MIDI clip and/or turn off AUDIO track volume NOT the MIDI volume...
when playing with options for different MIDI played by the same VI
- LEAVE THE MIDI VOLUME ALONE!

ok, all good now.

Edited Friday at 03:05 PM by Glenn Stanton