After my brother and I rocked out to Deerhoof in Portland on Thursday night, I went back to Vancouver with him and stayed the night so we could play golf with Mom on Friday.
Also while I was there, I set up Caustic 3.1 on his computer, and yesterday I made a couple videos showing him how to set it up and record from his Roland TD-11 drum kit.
They were just made for him, but others might find them instructive as well so here they are.
First a short one showing how to set up MIDI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnEX745xAo
And then one about twice as long, on recording and exporting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsmBdCW-VcI
We use Dropbox to share files back and forth; its how I got his drum track on "The Animal" (http://singlecellsoftware.com/node/13326) (he recorded in Audacity; the TD-11 sends both audio and MIDI via USB.)
...hey, is it possible to take MIDI and import it into Caustic?
Because if not, all I can do with his exported MIDI is work with it in REAPER. I would do better to have him save the whole project file and put that in the COLLAB folder.
Maybe you're talking about something different, but I import .mid song files all the time. I've posted 3 in just the last week.
Hello Steph..
First of all, thanx for the vids..
Yes, you can import a midi file into caustic.. It will be in the sequencer's pianoroll..
If your Midi file has several chanels, you'll be asked, for each chanel, to select the machine who will play it..
Usually, the drum parts are recorded in GM midi format, so they will need the PCMsynth, with a GM drum preset..
And hello Uncle too..
Good to know. But I think I'll still have him just save the project file and save some steps, since I'll probably be continuing to work in Caustic anyway.
Well he tried it out the other day but he can't deal with the latency between hitting the drum trigger and hearing the sound (over a second, he says). This even with "Device Latency" set to LOWEST.
His USB cable is 15 feet long; would using a shorter cable reduce the latency any?
Latency has to do with audio drivers. ASIO stuff is the fastest on non external audio interface stuff(with really fast drivers).
I have tried using my Keylab49 with a 10' cable(year or so ago) with caustic and latency with my Focusrite driver is almost non existent.
There's nothing in Caustic that lets you select an alternate driver, is there? And this is pure MIDI we're dealing, not audio