.I have recently bought a used Zoom C5.1T and am trying to figure out hot to record the sounds created with its ZOOM ZFX software, which is a Windows program that has sound effects such as distortion for whatever is plugged into it. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zoom+c5.1t .
I have been able to record the instrument plugged into the ZOOM C5.1T as a clean channel (no sound effects to the instrument) but would like to know how I go about recording the instrument with the sounds used in the software.
After reading the “Podium Guide” I was able to add a track and figured out how to record, which is nice, but I would like to know if it is possible to record an instrument’s sound that I hear from my speakers that are connected to the ZOOM device after it has been altered using the ZFX program without having to route a wire from the ZOOM devices phone jack to my sound cards mic input?
I run Windows XP and the default audio devices are:
Sound Playback: Zoom S2t C5.1t Wave Out
Sound Recording: Zoom S2t C5.1t Wave In
MID Music Playback: Zoom S2t C5.5t MIDI Out
Having neither the audio interface or the plugin, for me it’s not easy to understand how they work and how to set them properly. Anyway…
If you have the VST plugin, my advice is to use that because it allows you to work (only) in Podium directly. Moreover, the VST were made to avoid having dozens of cables to be connected! 😉
To use in Podium, just add it in the effect slot (if it’s an effect) or in the instrument slot (if it’s a instrument). That’s all.
As for the standalone application, you have to find ways to record from the output of the computer.
These are my settings of Windows XP:
Obviously yours are different, but the audio interface should have a “control panel” to set the driver… or not?
How do you record from Internet (or other source)?
There are some drivers that work as virtual cables that connect the output to the input.
For example these: VB Cable or Hi-Fi Cable.
http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/
In the documentation you will find a case study for Win Xp.
Remark: I have no idea how they could work with another driver and / or interface.
I will respond in order of appearance.
In my start menu it says “ZFX plug-in” so I just assumed that the ZOOM sofware would install whatever is needed because it also came with Cubase 4LE but unfortunately the license was only good for one use.
http://www.simulanalog.org/guitarsuite.htm
I will use this to test as a VST unless you know of another VST that is known to work with Podium. I don’t know exactly how VST’s work because I want the effect and of course I would want to adjust the effect(s) to my liking.
Again, in my original query I stated,
“I run Windows XP and the default audio devices are:
Sound Playback: Zoom S2t C5.1t Wave Out
Sound Recording: Zoom S2t C5.1t Wave In
MID Music Playback: Zoom S2t C5.5t MIDI Out”
Here is a picture of it, http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=n9e6g&s=9
So, it would be safe to assume that in the Sounds and Audio Devices Control Panel that these devices are listed as the default devices.
But it only makes sense that because there is no option to record from the audio out default device in the Podium software that there is no option to record from the sound I hear from my speakers leaving the only option to add effect pedals before the instrument wire reaches the ZOOM device :*(.
Again, like I mentioned everything gets played through the ZOOM device and I use speakers connected to this device to operate all sounds. So when I record internet radio, watch YouTube etc. everything goes to the Zoom device. I haven’t the patience to switch the default playback audio device and restart the computer every time I want to rewire the speakers to the computers sound card.
Because I use the ZOOM to avoid the mess of having to switch back and forth and so that I can play my instrument at will without the annoyance of having to restart the computer, there is no mixer as the one that you have shown that allows you to select and adjust volume levels.
Ha ha. I have no idea either. I just assumed that the program needs an option to record from the audio out and definitely not the audio in default device. This assumption is based on the clean sound recording of my instrument and not the fuzzy sound coming from my speakers.
I will try that virtual software sometime soon. I will probably just use my digital recorder since it has a mic input and USB cord to connect it to the computer to transfer the file just to save rebooting computer everytime I want to check something out.
Did I discover an improvement that could be added to the software or is using a VST the thing. If it is I would like to see how you adjust the distortion levels, etc. of pedals.
