Help! Having trouble with some software!

[stratovani]

I'm a newbie to the recording game who's having some problems with my recording software. My DAW is Ableton Live 11 Light, and my MIDI keyboard is M-Audio Oxygen Pro Mini. The MIDI keyboard came with three pieces of software - Hybrid, which is a synth, MiniGrand, which is a piano, and Velvet, which is an electric piano. The problem I'm having is I can't get any of these to record in my DAW. I can record my guitars and basses, and I can record drums using MODO DRUMS, but I can't record these keyboard-based synths. What am I doing wrong? How can I get them to record?

 

[And I]

vst instruments / software synths produce their output based on a midi input signal. if you want to record their output as an audio file, you'd have to solo their channel and do a mixdown. but you don't really need to. are you saying the m-audio software synths are producing no sound? does Ableton know they exist? however modo drums works, these software synths should work in the same way.

 

[filmtex]

YouTube is your friend. This guy is very good and you should be able to find your answer in this AbletonLive playlist. Post back if you need more help, or solve your problem.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2_zHe1np2HdJxEsTPIhmV74005aTL6mV