Record From Synth & E-Drums & Mic

[dudi1991]

hey all.
so i bought my new gear which includes:
- KRK ROOKIT 6
- Tascam US-122-MKII
- SE Electronics X1 LD Cardriod Condenser Microphone
- Meledi DD506 (E DRUM KIT)
this is my very first "professional" setup.

now.. im about to buy MFB NanoZwerg Monophonic Analouge Synthesizer and i want to know some stuff.

so i begin:

1) lets say i want to record the drums with midi (i have midi in & out on both e drums and the tascam) to fruity loops or ableton or any DAW even.
i know midi is not audio - but if i record midi, how do i turn this into an audio without re-record it? and how i connet the e drums, and to what? (staight to the laptop or first to the tascam-->laptop?)

2)how do i record with a synthesizer? what the order of the connections? like if make a wobble and i want to change the cutoff or something through the synth and not from massive, how do i do it? and how do i use the preset from the synth as my main sound? and by change i mean like in a live recording inside the DAW.

3)same as the microphone.. can i plug it and change setting and play around with the sound with the help of the synth? like "twist" my voice with it?


thanks alot guys!!

[Electric_Head]

You bought all this stuff without figuring out how to connect it?
Put the kart before the horse much?

[dudi1991]

well i know how to use all this stuff but i dont know how to record midi.
thats the problem - i am a drummer 6 years and now i bought an elctronic drums mechine for making beats.
the mic for singing, and the MFB with a keyboard to make melodies.

now i dont know how to record midi to my computer and play it as audio.. thats the problem here.

i read alot of midi in and midi out - using a loop and bring it to the DAW.
but i dont want that, i want to be able to twist a wobble in live recoding.

lets say i hit record on fruity loops with sylenth1 "x" wobble preset.
until now, if i wanted to change live the cutoff or the realese, i was needed to link my knob on the akai mpk mini to the cutoff button in the sylnth1 windows, and so on.. and i dont like it - its messy.
this is the purpose of the MFB - make it more "handy" to use.
and ofcourse.. how to turn the midi into the audio.

lets say i connect the drum module from midi out the the midi in (in the tascam) - and open any DAW.
how do i record what i drum??

now you got it?

until now i had THE AKAI MPK MINI KEYBOARD so i just plug it to my usb, load a preset and cahnge octaves.
but no more - i upgraded my self to get a richer sound and to learn ofcourse.

i dont know how to use these three things espacially when its midi..

[Ongelegen]

1) why record midi if you want to record the audio of you playing. Just record the audio.

2) audio out from synth to line in of interface. The mfb nanozwerg doesnt have presets. I really dont understand your other questions. Seems to me you have no idea how the gear functions.

3) you can feed the signal, post preamp ofcouse, to the nanozwerg which will them go though the vcf and vca.

[dudi1991]

1) why record midi if you want to record the audio of you playing. Just record the audio.

2) audio out from synth to line in of interface. The mfb nanozwerg doesnt have presets. I really dont understand your other questions. Seems to me you have no idea how the gear functions.

3) you can feed the signal, post preamp ofcouse, to the nanozwerg which will them go though the vcf and vca.

i think this all theard is big missunderstading.

look.

lets leave the mfb out for a second.

i have e drums module with midi in & midi out.
now, what do i need to do in order to record what i play live (on the drums) straight to the DAW?
like, if i figured it out currectly - those are the levels:
1) plug the midi out (on the drums) to the midi in (on the tascam)
2) choose to create a midi track insdie the DAW
3) find the right port for the midi (Again, inside the DAW)
4) hit record

now... i dont know if im right, but that should come as midi notes, not as aduio.

how do i turn these midi notes to an audio?
if i get that curretly at all..

[Electric_Head]

As Project Ex has stated in no.2, you can't just plug the mfb in and it's going to work out the box as a controller for Massive or something.

Most controllers have preset cc values that correspond to a setting on the vst.
Which can work well and give you most of the controls from the vst on your hardware.
But often it does not work this way which will mean you will have to link the knobs as you have done.

If your synth has effects then you can route the mic to the nanozwerg effects section but you're probably have a better time just running your recorded voice through vst effects.

I don't know the MFB though, it may function differently.

If you don't want midi to be recorded, you create a simple audio track not a midi track.
Route the output of your audio interface that the drums are running through into the Audio track.
Arm it to record, record and play the drums.

[dudi1991]

like... if i got that right.



connect a TRS cable into the Audio jack on the module (the rightest)



to line left (or right) insdie the tascam? or i need to plug the trs from the drums to XLR?