How to record fractal bits in to Cubasis or similar

blodline

I’ve just bought fractal bits but for the life of me I can’t work out how to record it into something like Cubasis. I’ve open it up as an au instrument and can play it but it doesn’t record any midi notes. Am I doing something wrong or doesn’t it work like that?

GeorgeL909

@blodline said:
I’ve just bought fractal bits but for the life of me I can’t work out how to record it into something like Cubasis. I’ve open it up as an au instrument and can play it but it doesn’t record any midi notes. Am I doing something wrong or doesn’t it work like that?

Try using the cubasis keyboard or pads. I only have cubasis 2, but if you go to the upper left, near media you'll have access to the keys menu where you can switch it to pads if you like. The keys and pads are automatically mapped so you don't have to assign anything, it'll record the midi from cubasis as a source. Doesn't seem to pick up midi from the app itself, but the cubasis pads are just as easy to play so you won't be missing much.

Samu

Load it as an AUV3, create a midi-event in Cubasis 2 or 3 and use 'Freeze' to convert it to Audio.
This is the way we have to go until Cubasis 3 makes it possible to use the output from one track as input for another track.

As far as I know FractalBits doesn't output midi so you need to use the Cubasis keyboard to trigger and record the sounds.
(I usually sequence it using the piano-roll in Cubasis and freeze the track when I need it as audio).

Fractalbits 'spreads' the 12 samples across the entire keyboard so there's plenty to sequence

Sometimes I just export the samples and use them with other apps like BM3 or Koala, create loops and export as audio.

Good Luck!

blodline

Thanks a lot both of you I will give it a try

wim

Fractal Bits doesn't output any midi. So playing the pads in Fractal Bits won't output any midi for Cubasis to record. As mentioned, you'll need to play it with the Cubasis keyboard or pads.