Virus TI Snow and Ableton: how to get seperate audio tracks?

[synthfiend]

arrh that solves a long standing question for me too.
Am I right in saying that you cannot do this for all the 16 Virus Control channels, but are limited to the 3 USB channels.

[nick cenik]

Originally Posted by synthfiend

arrh that solves a long standing question for me too.
Am I right in saying that you cannot do this for all the 16 Virus Control channels, but are limited to the 3 USB channels.

For stereo, yes, I assume 3 is the maximum. However, the various L and R channels available in Virus Control can be used as additional, albeit mono, channels.

[synthfiend]

thanks for that

[mkelly]

Originally Posted by nick cenik

For stereo, yes, I assume 3 is the maximum. However, the various L and R channels available in Virus Control can be used as additional, albeit mono, channels.

I only tried it briefly but I had trouble getting the L and R channels (as distinct mono channels) into Live - I could only seem to get them into a track as stereo pairs. You might be able to mess about with the Utility plug in to separate the L and R channels, but I'd have to play about with that to even be sure that the sounds aren't being mixed into stereo.

[Ceri JC]

Thanks for the info; I'd briefly looked at the tutorial, but overlooked this. I'll have a play with it tonight. Presumably this means that so long as the Snow can play all 4 parts at once (without stealing voices/stuttering), you can also render to wav for all 4 tracks at the same time when rendering a song (rather than doing 4 passes, one for each channel)?

[nick cenik]

Originally Posted by mkelly

You might be able to mess about with the Utility plug in to separate the L and R channels,

Yep, this is exactly how the tutorial video for Live shows one how to get the mono channels to work.

[mkelly]

Originally Posted by nick cenik

Yep, this is exactly how the tutorial video for Live shows one how to get the mono channels to work.

I managed to do this tonight. I directed part 3 to USB3 L and part 4 to USB3 R. I created two tracks in Live and directed USB3 to them both - I could hear one part in the left channel and one part in the right channel. On one track I used the "Left" preset for the Utility plugin and on the other track I used the "Right" preset. This gave me the two tracks nicely separated. It's ugly, but it works!

[Ceri JC]

I tried this last night. Oddly enough all the USB 3 channels are greyed out, so I was only able to use USB 1 & 2 and audio out. I take it that this isn't normal?

[Ronkaz]

it is perfectly normal! read the documentation (the addendum chapter "new output preference")!

r