Reply To: Not recording audio from VSTi

@ishkabbible wrote:

My goal here is to do some serious development work on and recording with the ZynAddSubFx open source synth… but it DOES seem to solve some of my latency issues…

I loaded ZunAddSubFx into an arrangement. Amended the default preset and called up some internal fx. The latency between midi keyboard and Podium was the same as set by ASIO drivers.
I didn’t set up a multi-instrument via its internal mixer. If you want to work with a plugin’s internal channels, you have to use a multitimbral instance of that plugin.

@ishkabbible wrote:

In parallel, I am looking at discrete solutions:
MIDI controller –> MIDI mapper –> MIDI sequencer / editor –> Stand alone ZynAddSubFx build –> Audacity (or some multitrack recorder) –> sound card.
I already have versions that I like of all the links in that chain, and this is how I recorded the 2 clips I have up on soundcloud. But the problem seems to be in those pesky arrows – passing MIDI and audio streams between apps in windoze seems to be the sticking point where my latency problems arise.

You’ve done well if you mapped ZynAddSubFx’s sequencer to Podium’s piano roll. Assuming I follow what you mean 😕
May I suggest you use Podium’s bounce rendering as sampler within the arrangement?! You can export those (or the entire track), then work on them in Audacity. That’s the process I use 😉
And a Stand alone ZynAddSubFx build controlled by Podium could raise latency times. Does Stand alone ZynAddSubFx build allow you to select audio drivers?