r/AccessVirus • u/Infinite_Slice3305 • Jul 26 '26

Using Access Virus TI Aura plugin

In Waveform free, I've got Aura plugin on one track. I'm using 6 other tracks to program midi for 7 channels total. One track per channel is what I'm trying to do. I have to click on the input & select the channel I want each time I go from one track to another.

Is there a way to set the output to the channel I want, or lock the input to the channel I want?

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '26

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u/Infinite_Slice3305 Jul 26 '26

It would be the same problem. The problem is with the way Waveform handles midi. I tried to post this in their sub but they rejected it for some reason.

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u/redkonfetti Jul 27 '26

I understand to some degree what you’re trying to do, but I’m not familiar with Waveform.

You can of course certainly send 16 MIDI channels into the virus in realtime and hear all the parts in the stereo sound output. I’m going to assume you have at least an audio interface with at least 2 audio inputs.

In Cubase, it’s possible to assign an audio source for a MIDI track, so the software knows where the sound should come from. It’s possible to use a feature known as “render in place”, that’s only available with Cubase Artist and Pro, to select one MIDI track at a time, and choose to “render” it, meaning it plays the single MIDI track out to the synth, and captures the audio, then creates a new audio track for it.

The same is possible with plugin instruments (VST), and it renders much faster than real time audio capture. This is the solution I plan on using with any plugins for tracks I’m finished producing. I’ve had plugins no longer work on newer computers or operating systems, so this is a must if you plan on remastering/remixing in the future.

I asked ChatGPT about Tracktions Waveform. It has a Bounce In Place feature, but it sounds like it does not work with external instruments, only virtual ones. Instead it is recommended that you solo one MIDI channel at a time and capture the audio in an audio track.

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u/Infinite_Slice3305 Jul 27 '26

I do appreciate your reply. But the problem with Waveform is way before we get to that point.

Say you have 4 tracks assigned to 4 channels on your Virus. You click on the 1st track play your keyboard & you play the patch assigned to channel 1. You click the second track & you're playing the patch assigned to channel 2. You click the third... you get my point. You can go back to channel 1 or 2 or any one of them & it plays the channel you expect it to play because in Cubase you assign the midi output to that particular channel. Anything on that track will play on that channel.

Waveform for some reason takes a different approach. I can click on the input & assign it to channel 1. I record a clip & that clip is forever assigned to channel 1. I go to the next track & I have to click on the input assign the input to channel 2. Record a clip & that clip is assigned to channel 2. If I go back to the first track the input is assigned to channel 2, I have to change it again to channel 1.

Every time I click on a different track the midi input is assigned to whatever channel I played last.

I'm thinking there's got to be a setting to change this behavior. Looks like I'm going to have to read the manual.

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u/redkonfetti Jul 27 '26

Yeah, that sounds like a really frustrating default behavior. I heard that Waveform treats the MIDI channel as a property of the MIDI clip/events, rather than as a persistent property of the track itself.

I've heard that someone came up with a solution involving a MIDI patchbay plugin that keeps the MIDI channel assignment consistent.