Solved Assigning a channel to the Hydrasynth

[coro]

hey all,

been fiddling for a while but I'm stuck on this:

I have the Hydrasynth connected to the PC via USB (set it up asa "Keyboard" in the external instruments) and I've recorded a part with some automations (Hydra's knobs).
I could hear it while I was recording and S1 has received the midi notes but now I don't know how to assign a mixer channel to it so I can listen back and bounce it into audio.

I'm a super noob so I'm still getting my head around S1's track VS channel concept and sure how to proceed

 

[Gerran]

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You probably have to map an instrument as well. Keyboard goes into S1
Instrument comes out
See linked video from Lukas, very explanatory..

 

[coro]

Thanks Gerran!
Funny enough Lukas already sent me this video 2 days ago when trying to set up the breath controller XD

I was missing the HS to be setup as an "Instrument" as well and not just as a "Keyboard".
Works perfectly now.

One thing remains: I can hear it but I'm still missing a channel in the mixer. I'm still going thru the basics of S1 (bought it 2 days ago) but if you could quickly let me know that'd be awesome

Thanks!

 

[Gerran]

As long as it's "just" a MIDI track, it contains, just MIDI. You'll have to send the MIDI to an Instrument that can play the note information of the MIDI. The instrument can be your synth for example, but if you want that sound in S1 you'll have to route that back in. That sound input will have a channel in the mixer. Just so with a Virtual Instrument. That will listen to MIDI information and create sound based on those notes. That Virtual Instrument track will have a console channel associated with it.
Try to see MIDI tracks as note information, not as audio. That way, it all makes more sense and it's actually quite clever how S1 has implemented it.
You can even have a single MIDI track as a source for multiple instruments (each with their own audio channel(s)).

 

[coro]

that makes sense indeed and, while unfamiliar for now, I sniff out that this track VS channels might truly be a more clever implementation in the long run .

Tho' I'm still stuck on one thing:
I created the second track and picked the HS as the instrument but still I don't get any channel
Obvs I did wrong somehwere but can't figure out where
Any hint by looking at the picture?

 

[sintil8]

bounce it into audio.

I'm a super noob so I'm still getting my head around S1's track VS channel concept and sure how to proceed

If it's the bounce to audio what you are after. Gregor provides the missing bit.

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Regards

 

[Lukas]

I created the second track and picked the HS as the instrument but still I don't get any channel
Obvs I did wrong somehwere but can't figure out where
Any hint by looking at the picture?

It's again what @Gerran explained: MIDI is just note information. It's not audio. In the console you only see audio. But audio is only created when the MIDI information (notes) goes into an instrument that actually makes noise from those notes.

The AUX track solution Gregor shows in the video above is exactly what you're looking for Check it out!

 

[coro]

Thank you Lukas & Gerran