in this tracktion waveform tutorial I'm going to quickly show you how to convert
your MIDI clips into audio and you can do this in tracktion waveform free and
waveform Pro I'm Zane welcome to simple green tech where I do
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unleash your creativity now let's jump into waveform 11 as you can see I have a
MIDI clip here and this is just with the micro drum sampler that comes with
waveform so let's just listen to what sounds like now what if I wanted to make
this into audio instead of MIDI so what I need to do is just click on the header
area of the track here then you want to go down here to render clip click on
render the selected clip and then you have some options in here and if you're
going to be loading this back into your project you should really use the same
sample rate that you use for your project and if you're not sure you can
go into your settings then go into your audio devices and you can see what the
sample rate is in there and I typically record at 24-bit so I'm gonna change
this to 24-bit and I know I'm recording this at 48,000 so I'm going to put
48,000 in there and I want it to be a stereo track some of your tracks might
be mono so you might want to take that off
but this drum track will have a stereo then another thing you can do is check
where you're going to save it to and by default it's in the rendered folder
within your project folder so that's fine with me so I'm just gonna leave it
as that and then I'll click render and you'll see it's rendered the audio and
it's put it over top of my MIDI file so we're going to want to move that out of
the way and now I have an audio file of my MIDI so let's check that out
and you'll notice that my MIDI clip was longer than what the actual MIDI
information is and if I just wanted the information here you can see I have a
region selected up here I could go to render clip and then render the marked
region of the selected clip and that's just going to render what's in here but
with drums you sometimes have a tail end that comes off of them and you might
want to keep that intact so you should extend that mark region on a bit just so
you can keep that tail you can also render multiple Clips if you want and
you can make them into one audio clip and I'll show you how to do that right
now so I'm gonna shorten this and then I'm
going to duplicate it like this and now if I want to render both of those into a
single audio track or just click on one hold down control on my computer
keyboard click on the other one so they're both selected then you just go
down to the bottom render clips render all the selected clips and again you
have your options here and you can see it remembered my previous selection so
that's fine and I'm just going to hit render and now you can see I have an
audio clip that is the full length of both of those MIDI clips now if you're
doing this to free up some system resources by removing the instrument
track what I recommend doing is keeping the MIDI and then you can mute that
track and you can disable the plug-in so it's not rendering or you can remove the
plug-in altogether what I recommend doing is saving the settings within your
plug-in or remembering the preset what I normally do is I'll name the file the
plug-in name and then the preset name after it so then that way I can remember
what it was that I used and I can go back and edit things if I need to if you
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