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6. Name this track “MOX Control”. You will not be using this track to record MIDI.

7. On the second Instrument Track, set the Input to “MOX Keyboard”, and the Output to “MOX Synth

(The two devices you just created). Name the track “MOX CH 1” and set its MIDI Channel to 1.

8. Record some MIDI on the second Instrument Track (MOX CH 1).

You can use the VST (MOX Control) track to edit the MOX and change sounds etc. To create more Instrument

tracks, follow step 7 above for other MIDI channels. Here you can see I’ve created a few more MIDI tracks.

I need to explain what’s going under-the-hood in Studio One. Firstly, there are two types of track – Audio

Tracks & Instrument Tracks. Audio Tracks are self-explanatory: They record and playback audio. An Audio

track contains and audio file and has an associated Mixer Channel.

Instrument Tracks are a little confusing at first, but the most important thing to bear in mind is, they don’t

contain any audio data. In other words; you won’t ever hear audio directly from an instrument track . This is

evident from the absence of an associated audio channel.

So how does it work..?

Basically, the MIDI output from an instrument track needs to be routed to either a soft-synth (VSTi), or an

External Device. Routing it directly to the MOX VST Editor simply won’t work and you won’t hear any

audio. Why..? Because the VST Editor does not produce any audio..!

The signal from the MOX VST Editor goes out on a different MIDI Port (Port 4), so your recorded MIDI isn’t

getting to the MOX Sound Engine anyway, which is set to MIDI Port 1.

As I pointed out earlier, you need to set up an External Instrument Device in Studio One ("New Instrument”

Send To MIDI Port 1), then route the instrument track to that device - NOT THE MOX VST EDITOR..!

When you think about it, it’s exactly the same as Cubase, except Cubase’s MIDI tracks have an associated

channel strip in the mixer with MIDI volume, pan etc.

Although Studio One doesn’t have MIDI volume faders in the mixer, it doesn’t matter because the MOX VST

Editor (which is on its own separate Instrument Track) is only a click away, and that’s where you set up your

MIDI mix.

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