Realtime rendering?? :S

[Timo]

It's not to do with your soundcard, as Flip said you would need to physically record the Virus in realtime and import it as a track into your sequencer, or lay it down (bounce it) with all your other tracks (realtime rendering within your sequencer).

Once done, I'd be more inclined to export the song in Wav format and use a completely separate program (such as RazorLAME with the LAME codec) to fully customise and optimise for the MP3 format. You can always keep the non-lossy Wav as a master backup (for archiving) afterwards, otherwise you would have to render it all again at a later time if you wanted another copy of it. At least with a Wav master you're not burning your bridges like with MP3.

[psy604]

maybe you can add an audio channel ... and just record the output signal into there.
once done solo that channel and render to wave (export).
so you play it in realtime and don't have to use additional software to accomplish this.

no clue of FL

[CyberKenny]

I'd suggest Edison as an "audio logger". It's an option in FL's mixer from version 8 and up.

- Highlight the mixer track with the Virus and press SHIFT-E to "Open audio logger".
- Press Play in FL Studio and you're good to go!

I'll leave it to you how you work with the audio you record, but my golden tip is to save the waveform with a descriptive name and using the "Insert in playlist" option found in the Tools menu.

Just thought I should mention this jewel of a plugin!

[tendo]

This method works but the timing still seems to be off by like half a second. REALLY FRUSTRATING.