I had to reinstall NTrack on a new PC. Picked up my project, no sounds for Midi Drum Tracks. I’m sure it’s got something to do with output routing, but for the life of me i’m struggling to find what might need changed to get sound.
I’d appreciate any suggestions. Midi tracks just aren’t my thing
Thanks
If the track is using one of the n-Track builtin drum preset sounds, make sure that the sound is installed via the Add-on manager, which will open when in the instrument browser you select a preset that is not currently installed. The instrument browser appears clicking on the track’s output instrument box in the mixer.
Flavio.
Thanks Flavio, that appear in order, i can see the plugin is triggering the audio as per the piano roll, i’m sure it’s just something not routing correctly to output.
As this was a new install on a PC i’ve hit another couple of hurdles.
I’ve selected an audio output that comes up with a popup saying it cant work and i need to selecting another audio device, but i can’t because the pop-up keeps reappearing when i dismiss it. Is there a work around? I had to delete the config file to clear the error and start again as such.
Further, with the midi tracks that aren’t creating any sound, i thought i’d convert them to audio, which i cancelled as i decided not to do it, but it removed the audiotracks from the project and now i can’t get them back it seems. All help appreciated.
I’m not sure if I’m following, how did you exactly try to convert midi tracks to audio? Bouncing? Using the Undo command should bring you back to the previous state of the song. Or you could use the File → Manage song → “Restore song from snapshot” command to open a previous version of the song.
If an instrument track doesn’t play, try to change the instrument assigned to it from the Instrument browser, and then change it back to the original one. Also one thing you can try is to create a new blank instrument track, and then copy and paste the content of the track from the old to the new track, so that the new track will have the notes of the old track but the routing and settings will be the default ones.
If the problem persists please post some screenshots or a short video showing what’s happening and including the mixer view of the tracks so that it shows the routing settings.
Flavio.
Hi Flavio and all,
Many thanks for your work developing and maintaining N-Track Studio. I have been using it on and off for over a decade.
I’ve got a similar issue here where out of nowhere one particular VST Instrument (Steven Slate Drums 5) is not generating any sound. It has worked perfectly for years but just stopped working all of a sudden in N-Track Studio 9 so I restarted the computer, re-installed the VST, checked it in another DAW (it worked) and so upgraded to N-Track Studio 10 but still this one particular VST Instrument fails to make a sound.
I’ve made a short screen recording to show you that the Midi track initiates Steven Slate Drums but no sound is generated, and the same Midi track initiates another Drum VST and a sound is generated.
You can view the recording here: N-track studio VST Drum issue_241204.mp4
Please advise!
We’ve reproduced the issue with Steven Slate Drums 5 and we’re working on it.
Thanks for the report.
Andrea.
Thanks Andrea, hope to hear of a solution soon!
We’ve just released a new build (9171) that should fix the problem with Steven Slate Drums 5.
Please let me know.
Andrea.
It sure did!
Thanks so much Andrea and team, impressive response time
Can I ask what the issue was? And if there’s anything I can do to avoid it happening or resolving it in future?
There was a bug in the code affecting all multi-output instrument plugins with both mono and stereo outputs active simultaneously (such as Steven Slate Drums 5).
Thank you again for your feedback, and please let us know if you notice anything else.