Re: [Qtractor-devel] Qtractor 0.6.2 audio and MIDI output issue

[Holger M. <ho...@ma...>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 18:48 +0200, Holger Marzen wrote:
> > > Is there a way to send MIDI data from several tracks to the synth plugin
> > > of one track?
> > 
> > Should work if you put the synth plugin into a bus and route the tracks
> > there.
> > 
> > > Is there a way to get sub groups for mixing the audio signals of MIDI
> > > and audio tracks?
> > 
> > You should be able to manually connect the tracks' output to a subgroup
> > bus. Alternatively you can use an aux send to the subgroup bus. It's
> > pre-fader, so you can put the track's fader down.
> 
> All those routing tricks cause issues in the past and I doubt it will
> work without issues nowadays. I didn't use the computer for music for a
> while, now I'm trying to make a song using Qtractor again and I already
> experienced all the IO issues I experienced in the past that already
> happened and happen without tricky routing, such as MIDI in is ignored
> for a while and suddenly speaker damaging noise appears and after that
> MIDI does work again. Or after a while of usage MIDI in is delayed etc.
> pp..

I can't see a problem here. To use JACK for audio routing is the
designed way to go.

Ansicht
-> Optionen
-> Plugins
-> Instrumente
[X] Dedicated audio outputs

Restart Qtractor. Then newly created tracks have their own outputs that
you can route to buses. Those buses are your subgroups.

If that's not what you want then you might try Rosegarden. It has a
built-in subgroup concept. You assign each instrument to Master or a
Subgroup.