<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.rj3.net/cowboy/studio/Cowboy ... .zip"><img src="/forums/images/file_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" File"> File</a><BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Related To: Acid<BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Pulsar Version: Pulsar 3.x<BR> _____________________________________<BR><BR> Acid Production / Soft synth workstation (Creamware Pulsar2, SFP 3.1c)
I work primarily in Acid 4. I don't do any MIDI sequencing, but I do use a MIDI controller to control standalone VSTi soft synths. I have Acid's audio preferences set to use the Windows Classic Wave Driver, instead of ASIO. I prefer to assign ASIO to the VSTi's for ultra-low latency.
My process: I usually make a beat from drum samples, then record a track at a time (some mono or stereo instrument) using different instruments, until I have a complete song.
I record a combination of real instruments (rhodes, juno-106, bass, guitar, etc) into the Pulsar2 Analog Source by way of my Mackie mixer, but I also like to record soft synths such as Native instruments' B4 or Pro 53 - and Giga samples such as the Scarbee RSP '73 Rhodes.
I don't want to have to switch the device that Acid records every time I use a different instrument, so I have set up a mixer for this. The mixer called "INs to Wav/ASIO 1" combines these things:
* Pulsar2 Analog Source (actual hardware recording inputs)
* GSIF Source (audio output of Gigastudio)
* ASIO2 Source 1 (audio output of any ASIO2 soft synth)
* Wave Source 2 (I don't use this yet but set it aside in case I needed to record the output of some non-ASIO/GSIF application, like Winamp or Media Player)
The output of this mixer goes into Wave Dest 1, which Acid records Windows Classic Wave Driver "Creamware Play/Rec 01." The output of this mixer also goes into the second mixer called "OUT to Monitors." This second mixer combines these things:
* Wave Source 1 (audio output of Acid)
* INs to Wav/ASIO 1 mixer (this allows me to monitor everything going through the first mixer)
* ASIO2 Source 2 (I was fooling with a Vocoder here, I don't know what exactly I ended up doing)
The output of this mixer goes to:
* Pulsar2 Analog Dest (actual hardware outputs, hooked up to my monitors)
* Wave Dest 2 (audio input of some windows program like Winamp or Media Player, in case I want to shoutcast)
Good luck!
- Cowboy
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