Magix Music Maker 2014 randomly not recording in-program keyboard inputs

sarahdazjc wrote on 2/25/2014, 1:43 PM

Hi I wonder if someone can help me with this really annoying problem. I have a blank project, I click on Keyboard and leave it set to 2: E Piano but all of the instruments seem to do this error that I am going to describe.

So here is what I am trying to do.

I click new project.

Once ready to go I click the Keyboard button at the bottom to show the keyboard and hit record.

The midi record is lit on lane one and I play a little tune on the little keyboard at the bottom of the screen.

I hit stop and rewind to the start.

Tada nothing recorded

Then I try maybe 20 times more starting over and over and maybe 3 out of 20 it shows the notes in the block and I can hear the sound.

It does it more when I change the instrument to another.

Very strange as I would have thought that is exactly what the record function is meant to do, record the input, and all the time not just a few % of the time.

I noticed if I double click the block and look there is actually notes in there but still even played from this view I cannot hear them until I move them all up or down and put the notes back where they were. Then I hear it but isnt that just an epic long way round when It should work everytime without all that agro.

Can someone tell me if there is a reason that it does that or I am missing something obvious.

btw hi my name is sarah and thanks in advance for the assistance :)

Comments

Former user wrote on 2/25/2014, 6:37 PM

It sounds like a loose or dirty connectiom or weak batterys in your mouse..something of that nature. When you goto record on lane/track one...if its properly prepared, the instant you hit a key, an entry of some sort should appear on track one....if not, stop right there. DO you have a sound card ? maybe it needs to be re-seated.

browj2 wrote on 2/26/2014, 11:58 PM

Hi,

Before you start, make sure that the MIDI REC button is red on the track and that the track has an instrument selected. Make sure that the yellow bar at the top covers the area that you want to record in.

Note that if you record over top of a track, the previous recording is still there, just underneath.

I did find something strange happen. I recorded on tracks 1 to 3 with different instruments. When I added another instrument to track 4 and tried to arm it by clicking on the MIDI REC button and on the screen keyboard, the sound went to track 3 instead. Even with track 2 the sound went to track 3. I added a fifth track and it didn't work either. Like you, I could record but no sound was heard. Strange.

Solution - I clicked on the Soundpools tab and then Keyboard and everythng worked. This may also be your problem. If so, then there may be a bug in the program. But, I couldn't replicate this.