Hi all,
Another newbie question here to try your patience.
I’ve linked up Analog Heat +FX unit to my Mac using the USB cable.
When in Overbride (standalone Elektron package) my device shows up (see image).
When in Ableton Live 12 using VST plugin, the device may or may not show up (more often than not it doesn’t) .
If the device does show, it will only work on one audio track. If I set up another audio track and use the VST plugin the device won’t show up.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
This isn’t much help, but I’ll try it out with Ableton 11 this evening. Im relatively new to the AFX and I’m all up for connecting it to everything at the moment.
Hi Barry,
Thanks for the reply.
That would be very helpful!
It’s weird how it works in one audio layer then won’t work in another. I’ve never used Overbridge before but it seems a bit buggy in Ableton Live.
Cheers
I believe only showing on one track is correct, as each overbridge plugin controls one hardware device, to have two Heat+Fx plugins on different channels, you’d need two physical Analog Heat+FX boxes.
Best to set the heat up on a send channel and send the tracks to it.
As for being buggy, my experience with overbridge is to make sure the audio device being used in Ableton is running at 48kHz in settings->audio->sample rate, and to not have any overbridge controlled device also setup as a midi in/out device in the Ableton control surface settings.
Hi Brian,
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, you well could be right. I hadn’t thought about it that way. Normally when I run my other VST plugins I can use them on multiple layers at once.
It would of been nice if I could of done the same. I have drums, percussion, vocals etc etc all on seperate layers and wanted to use the Analog Heat +FX on them all individually and at once.
Cheers.
I found out the hard way yesterday night that the new 1.02 OS will no longer run the +FX on Catalina… I can’t connect it to my music computer. I think Bug Sur is the oldest OS it will connect to…
I think you are misunderstanding what is happening with the Heat plugin; it is routing audio through the actual analog circuits of the Heat. It is impossible for multiple instances to run without multiple Analog Heat hardware devices. Do you understand what I’m meaning?
This is what you need to do.
If you want to bounce down, then using a track as a send for processing instead of a return track would work better.
Not a bug, just a hardware limitation.
The VST plugin is a representation of the active Analog Heat, and as mentioned, all processing is done through AHFX.
Hi Barry,
Thats a real shame. I take it your computer is a few years old!?
Make sure you have AH plugged into your computer and turned on before you open Live.
Using AH with Overbridge is not like using a standard plugin, where you can put a separate instance on each track. In this case, as with all Elektron devices with Overbridge, you only get once instance of the plugin.
I usually just put AH on my master track and bounce/resample everything through that.
Hi Hawk,
Thanks for the reply. Yes indeed, that makes perfect sense. I was thinking more of it as a plugin rather than hardware.
Hi Elxsound,
Cheers for the tip, I’ll have a look into it.
Hi Rascal,
Great idea, I was tinkering around with that method yesterday. I suppose being new to Elektron I’m working out its workflow and how best to work with it.
Yes - it’s a 2015 MacBook Pro. The reason I’ve left it is because my A&H ZedR16 mixer stopped providing drivers after Big Sur and stopped development of the whole Zed range. It’s FireWire.
The desk is very good, and acts like a 16 track soundcard allowing recording all at once. I cannot find another replacement.
i have a 2015 frozen in OS time just so i can keep using my A&H xone:db4 as a sound card. i do wish they could update those drivers but i’ve reached out and they say it’s not possible
They took one of the most powerful mixer series and sunk it. Such a shame. The Zed series was so remarkably flexible. I’m even considering building the most powerful Mac I can to run Big Sur so I can keep using this setup for as long as I can.
