How To Connect Hardware Synth to Laptop and Record In Ableton Live
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2020
- A simple video showing you how to connect a hardware synth to your laptop and record in Ableton live.
As I mention, the principles of connecting are the same for all laptops or computers with USB ports. The final few steps are slightly different if you use a different DAW.
The interface I use is a Focusrite Scarlett audio interface, link here: amzn.to/2WlT2si
The most straightforward , clear explanation of how to connect and use a hardware synth in Ableton . Brilliant. Wish I’d have known about you a year ago .
i got my firts synth today normally do vst and getting hardware to work was a pain in the arse as sudennly everything didn't work any more i nearly went mad trying to get it to work lol Thank you so much. Subbed
Thanks! Very helpful. 😊👍🏿
Holy Cow.... Had a whole day of headache with this cr%p... Thanks lol. 👍😂
This worked great for me, thank you very much
So good thank you.
Hey man nice stuff thanks
Thanks for the video lmao had it all working until packed up equipment and went to friends house just totally forgot and been using Ableton and maudio for a longtime lol
Very nice video, it helped me a lot but I was trying to do it and my monophonic synth only sounds on one of the speakers, how do I make it sound on both? Thanks!
Hello! Thank you for your video, it is very easy to understand what you are explaining, you are very educational and you have good vibes. And yes! Please I need help. I'm a total newbie and I want to make my drum machine start playing the backbeat at the same time I start playing my synth and stop when I stop playing too. As in a workstation but without workstation. And no DAW.
Is it possible to do that?
Can that be done?
Can you do that?
Thank you
Thank you for this video! I've purchased an old Kawai K4 synthesizer but it has 2 audio outputs (L/R) instead of one (like the Novation one in your video). Does that mean I need 2 cables: one going from each output into each of the 2 inputs of my Audio Interface?
Great video thanks. I’m a rookie and when I play the synth I hear it out of L&R but it’s only recording onto the right channel. Any tips?
Nice
Hey, do you know a budget friendly cheap poliphonic digital synth to start with?
What about cv semi modular moog Mavis for example ?
I'm trying to figure out how to use midi, so I can overdub tracks using the BSII. I want to build up a dance track using all sounds from the BSII , but keep all the tracks I record in sync.
How do I do this?
What if the synthesizer is analog and does dot have a USB port?
Hey I hope all is well with you, I have a problem with my routing or I Don't know what I can hear the sound
See the signal but cant see the gain and record it in my live session nor can i see it in my 6i6
I get all that great video what im struggling with is I want my DAW (Logic) to play play my 4 Behringer synths all at the same time but I cant work it out im using a Keystep to put the midi in and I assume I have to assign each of my synths a separate midi channel but thats about as far as I have got
Excellent video. It seems I only need the audio interface. Would you recommend a good cheap one for a beginner like me?
behringer UMC204
This was a great demonstration thanks! I am still having an issue. Granted This is the first time I've ever hooked up a synth for recording.
I bought the behringer um22 and I hooked my arturia microfreak up to it. I was pleased to finally hear at least something but there's something terribly wrong with the signal. I've tried two jacks with the same result. It hisses loudly and when I play the mf, it sounds awful. Just terrible quality, broken and crackly. Any thoughts on that?
hmm that does sound strange. I would recommend the standard detective work, try and test the mf with just some heaphones perhaps, then try running some other things through your interface and test different cables. This is the only way to work out which part of the chain is the culprit as it could be any one of the cable, speakers, synth or interface, so you need to figure out which. For me 9 times out of 10 its the cable that causes issues like this.
@@Tunelighting i did. I've arrived at the point where I understand the source of the issue. All the hardware is fine btw. Its the behringer drivers that you have to Select in windows settings. They produce no sound, and windows actually states that when trying to play an mp3 through media player, windows says that there's either no sound device to play it through or there's something wrong with the drivers (behringer ones). I'd need these to work for the behringer usb driver in abelton to give me sound.
When the behringer driver in ableton is selected, there's a signal from the microfreak and its clean. I can see it in the track monitor. I also recorded myself playing with these drivers set - switched back to my realtek drivers and there was a perfect sample of my recording.
@@Tunelighting the horrible sound was simply a result of having the realtek asio driver selected in ableton, which I'd understand.
greeat thnx, any help on making it as midi
hey thanks for the video can I use my synth as a MIDI controller inside ableton tho? I want to use the software instruments inside the DAW with my Hardware synth as a controller
yep you can use any modern synth as a MIDI controller in Ableton when connected via USB
I use my Yamaha Modx as a midi controller and it works good.
@@Tunelighting yeah but like, how?
Hi. I have a small problem with latency..what can I do with IT?
hey am looking for the free audio recording software and if possible you can give me a hand towards music.
thank you
Thanks for the informative video, so no need to plug the midi out into my audio interface 🤔 just the jack
yep, the MIDI outs and ins on the interface are only really for use with older equipment
2 questions: 1. is it better to use two outputs as a stereo signal if the synth has the option? 2. why did u have to plug the midi cord into ur synth? is it a controller and needed the midi cord as the power supply ? seems unnecessary for midi if ur trying to get the synth sounds recorded from ur synth. that's what i'm trying to do- record the synth's sounds and not use the DAW's sounds via midi. trying to figure out the best way to do that. thanks!
did u figured this out yet?
So do you hook up your monitors to your laptop? I’m sorry if it’s a dumb question.
Hdmi cable
Cable from the back of the Focusrite connects to the usb on the laptop.
Monitors connect to the back of the Focusrite line outs.
Monitor speakers are connected to the L & R out ports on the Scarlett/audio interface. The Ableton audio preferences part of this video is where you choose where the output sound is going through. Can also have headphones plugged into the audio interface if you want to or into the laptop of course. You could connect speakers to the laptop too via the headphone out, but monitors sound far better coming from the audio interface.
Mate would u be willing to help me out on this. I followed all the steps. Im on windows so you may not be able to help
what am i supposed to use if my output has a RIGHT / LEFT / PHONES
Plug it into the one that says “deductive reasoning”
Highly confusing for me. You didn't select "external instrument" and configure it that way. I'm lost as to why you didn't do that or how this method works.
Can I connect one with a scarlet solo iterface?
Yes you can.
that still didn't help how to set it up on windows cause windows has not much but a few different thing to mac on Ableton and i still cant figure out how to hook my synth up
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