Subject:can I record audio and monitor wet signal?

Posted by: ohmaya

Date:3/12/2007 2:59:29 PM

If I am recording the input of my violin into an AUDIO TRACK, I want to send the track to a preset FX chain Ive loaded in the mixer as an ASISIGNABLE FX and monitor the wet signal while recording. I definitely play differently when I hear the wet signal than when Im recording dry.
Right now, I setup the audio track to monitor, but I only hear the dry input.
Thanks!
Flo

Subject:RE: can I record audio and monitor wet signal?

Reply by: ohmaya

Date:3/12/2007 4:02:14 PM

FYI...manual says that the ability to monitor wet signal when recording is subject to the speed of your hardware. I am running Win XP pro SP2, w/. 3.2 Ghz P4 CPU and 2GB RAM. I am using a Steinberg MI4 audio interface with ASIO driver. Everything works flawlessly - I would just like to be able to hear my playing through the FX when I 'm recording

Subject:RE: can I record audio and monitor wet signal?

Reply by: pwppch

Date:3/12/2007 4:33:00 PM

On the track, right click and set the input monitor mode.

or

when armed, you can select the input monitor mode by clicking on the input glyph.

Peter

Subject:RE: can I record audio and monitor wet signal?

Reply by: ohmaya

Date:3/12/2007 10:33:29 PM

Hi again, Peter!
Thanks for the reply but I knew how to monitor, I just cant get a particular monitor scenario to work. Here's my issue in a nutshell...

If I arm an audio track and select monitor ON or AUTO, and there is an insert FX on that track or the track is being routed to a bus that has FX inserted, I hear the wet signal fine - NO PROBLEM!
But if I arm a track and try to use the multipurpose slider mode to send the track's output to an ASSIGNABLE FX (ex. FX1 sending to reverb at -40), then I cant monitor it wet, nor do I see any of the signal being sent to the Assignable FX channel in the mxer while recording. It's not until after I have recorded the track that I can actually see and hear a signal being routed to the assignable FX channel on playback. I cant seem to the assignable FX monitor the same way I can with the insert or bus FX.

Does the wet monitor only work for track insert FX and or when sending to a bus FX and not when sending to an assignable FX channel in the mixer strip? Maybe it's not me - maybe this time it's actually something I want to do and can't

Thanks again for your help!
F.

Subject:RE: can I record audio and monitor wet signal?

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:3/13/2007 12:09:40 PM

AFAIK, you can only monitor input in real-time with effects at the track level. (Though, admittedly, I've never really tried this extensively as I record almost everything via external hardware.)

Iacobus

Subject:RE: can I record audio and monitor wet signal?

Reply by: ohmaya

Date:3/13/2007 12:43:37 PM

I tought about this afterwards...I guess if I really want to hear the FX live while playing, it wouldn't be a bad thing to place them at the track level, play with them and then render out to a new track. I think that's probably the most reasonable workaround

Thanks Iac!