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Hi, I'm having problems with a very basic function of Adobe Audition. I'm trying to record from a midi keyboard. My sound source is a software sampler - Miroslav Philharmonik 2. The audio interface is a Presonus Audiobox USB 96 with a driver listed as ASIO. I'm playing on midi channel 1 from the keyboard into the computer to the sampler and it's coming out of the speakers through the Presonus box.
I've attached a screenshot of the input device page from Audition. I see I can only add one screenshot but I have a similar one for the sampler program.
I promise you I have been trying to solve this on my own. The tutorials all go for very cool things you can do with your recording but don't seem to talk about how to get instruments to talk to the software. If you can let me know where to go to study this information I'd appreciate it!
Thanks!
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Can't say that I'm particularly surprised that you're having difficulty with this. You have a software sampler which produces what amounts to a 'virtual' output and that's feeding directly to the output that you've specified in Windows that you want to use on your Audiobox. The only way that you'll be able to record that is by connecting the output of the Audiobox back to the line input, selecting that as a source in Audition (you have to do this on the track that you want to use for recording) and recording it that way. You could at a pinch try using Virtual Audio Cable to route it internally, but this is, quite frankly, an almighty pain to set up.
The only other way this can work sometimes is if your software sampler actually arranges to have an output that can appear as a recordable source within Windows itself. In this case, you won't be able to use the ASIO driver for the sound device at all - you'll have to use whatever format the sampler outputs in - probably MME. However you look at it though, this isn't an Audition issue - it's a matter of locating the source, in the format it's available in, and assigning that to a track. With virtual instruments, this has never been simple, I'm afraid; it requires a good understanding of what's going on inside your computer.
On top of that, Audition isn't a good program to do this with, as it doesn't handle MIDI at all - it's editing software at heart, not music creation software.
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Thanks for the advice. I decided to call Sweeetwater, the company that sold me the sampler and most of my other equipment, and they sent me the following help page from Adobe.
https://helpx.adobe.com/audition/kb/troubleshoot-effects-plug-ins-vst.html
Audition actually has a plugin manager. So I employed that and it found the vst file - which turned out to be incompatible.
So I purchased a software DAW (Presonus Studio) and after creating my project I can import into Audition so I can work with Character Animator.
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