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is recording live with fx's possible?

EvalLin	Date: March 20, 2006 @ 4:58 PM I want to know if it's possible to record audio into a channel with fx's (ie. a vocal with delay and reberb or a guitar using the slayer plugin to distort it) if this is possible could someone explain how.
Stercesderised	Date: March 20, 2006 @ 5:01 PM yes...I do it when I play live. In fact, we also take on a sound engineer who I personally see as another musician...he works the board and panning in magical ways. It adds a great element to the music that you just couldn't pull off without a dedicated soundman that is creative. As far as recording live with fx's, just plug into your effects unit (or use the built in effects unit in your board/software/whatever) and hit the record button...then just make noise
EvalLin	Date: March 20, 2006 @ 5:13 PM I'm looking for directions on how to do this with the program i have, fruity loops, but thanks for the help.
StupidRalph	Date: March 27, 2006 @ 4:03 AM Are you asking for a live performance? Or do you mean just live as in having the FX applied as record them? If it is the latter I'd strongly suggest you not do it this way and apply the FX later.
Distilled1	Date: March 27, 2006 @ 11:42 AM No, itis not a recorder. you can import sounds you have recorded, but not live recording. its just a simple sequncer/sampler.
EvalLin	Date: March 27, 2006 @ 5:47 PM "you can import sounds you have recorded, but not live recording." Damn, oh well...When i get a midi keyboard i'll be able to do this with the vst's , just not with recorded audio, oh well..."vocal with delay and reberb"...i could use my guitar pedals and my mic to add fx's to vocals externally.
grubznug	Date: April 7, 2006 @ 7:59 PM hey, i was looking for FL stuff and i ran across this website and saw this post and became very upset and decided to regester and post. Distilled1 is EXTREEMLY WRONG! you most definatly CAN record audio into a channel with live FX. (although the slayer generator is a generator, not an effect, but you can use Fast Dist or some of the other distortion FX built into fruity loops) first of all you need an ASIO driver, this is a high latency audio driver that is essential for digital recording with live FX. a nice free one is available from http://www.asio4all.com/ after installing that, choose the asio driver in the audio options in FL. then in the mixer, choose the channel you want for your live audio, and in the IN box (at the bottom) select the input that your using (line-in, mic-in, ect..) then make some noise with whatever your input is and you should see the bars move and hear the sound through the pc output. then apply all the FX to that channel that you want! go nuts! if you have a decent pc, you can add tons of fx, and if you run out, rout the output do a different channel and put fx on that one. you could have hundreds!(although i dont recomend it) then to record your live audio with FX, click the rec button in the channel, and give a filename to your 2-be recording. to record the audio without the FX (wich is recomended in case you want to tweak the fx later) you dont put any fx on the input channel, and rout the output to a different channel with all the fx on that one. FL can basicly be used as a giant FX rack and mixer. i use FL to record live-take demos with a gutar and mic. i have a 2 input usb sound card and i put each input on a different channel. ive used it like this in many full production songs as well, you can make your song in FL, then add real instruments to it directly in FL! just about anything is possible in FL. so think twice befor you doubt its awsome power. -cheers and goodluck -Nick Gunzburg
grubznug	Date: April 7, 2006 @ 8:56 PM HA! it just dawned on me that this was not possible in older versions of FL. its possible in 5 and up. not sure about 4, but definatly not 3 or below. sorry if i made an ass out of myself in any way. cheers
grubznug	Date: April 8, 2006 @ 7:52 AM hey, i was looking for FL stuff and i ran across this website and saw this post and became very upset and decided to regester and post. Distilled1 is EXTREEMLY WRONG! you most definatly CAN record audio into a channel with live FX. (although the slayer generator is a generator, not an effect, but you can use Fast Dist or some of the other distortion FX built into fruity loops) first of all you need an ASIO driver, this is a high latency audio driver that is essential for digital recording with live FX. a nice free one is available from http://www.asio4all.com/ after installing that, choose the asio driver in the audio options in FL. then in the mixer, choose the channel you want for your live audio, and in the IN box (at the bottom) select the input that your using (line-in, mic-in, ect..) then make some noise with whatever your input is and you should see the bars move and hear the sound through the pc output. then apply all the FX to that channel that you want! go nuts! if you have a decent pc, you can add tons of fx, and if you run out, rout the output do a different channel and put fx on that one. you could have hundreds!(although i dont recomend it) then to record your live audio with FX, click the rec button in the channel, and give a filename to your 2-be recording. to record the audio without the FX (wich is recomended in case you want to tweak the fx later) you dont put any fx on the input channel, and rout the output to a different channel with all the fx on that one. FL can basicly be used as a giant FX rack and mixer. i use FL to record live-take demos with a gutar and mic. i have a 2 input usb sound card and i put each input on a different channel. ive used it like this in many full production songs as well, you can make your song in FL, then add real instruments to it directly in FL! just about anything is possible in FL. so think twice befor you doubt its awsome power. -cheers and goodluck -Nick Gunzburg
EvalLin	Date: April 10, 2006 @ 1:08 PM "...although the slayer generator is a generator, not an effect" i have the effects version too(like a digital amp/fx's processor)
EvalLin	Date: April 10, 2006 @ 1:12 PM Thanks for the help, "a nice free one is available from ", it's a beta , is there any problems with it?
jof1029	Date: April 10, 2006 @ 2:34 PM i downloaded the asio driver, but it wont let me send sound to my soundcard, so i see the little bars moving, but get no sound. is there any way to fix that? or should i look for a new driver?
grubznug	Date: April 10, 2006 @ 3:35 PM in the asio driver options, if it has a red X in the output( in asio4all), try closing all other aplications that use sound, and restart FL. if that dosent work try restarting the PC, if that dosent work, well i dont really know. asio4all.com has the good free driver
jof1029	Date: April 10, 2006 @ 4:39 PM ^ thanks, that did it. and the driver actually works with another thing i had that didnt work before. the only real problem now is switching between effects, is that even possible in a live setting?

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