Last Spiral post for a while, I promise!

I noticed in the NI forums that user Jedinhopy couldn’t record Spiral’s output in FL Studio. I checked, and found that this was the case… fortunately, there’s a workaround. This is Windows only, but then, FL is also Windows only.

First, get MIDI Yoke installed. This creates virtual MIDI input and output ports. You will find a million uses for this, I guarantee.

Then, in FL Studio’s MIDI settings, make the following adjustments:

MIDI Yoke one’s FL output port is set to 1, and it’s also activated as an input.

Now, in the wrapper for your instance of Reaktor Spiral, do the following:

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The MIDI output port for Spiral has been set to 1, same as the MIDI yoke port in FL’s MIDI settings.

Now, make sure the focus is on the channel you want to record to – in this case it contains an instance of the Lazysnake plugin – and record. Voila, notes in the piano roll.

Beware of this trick in other setups, because you might create a MIDI feedback loop with unpredictable and sometimes unpleasant results. But the way things are routed here it’s not a worry.

By the way, if there’s another easier workaround for this, do let me know!