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PTLE & Virtual Instruments: Low Level Signal?!
Greetings all, its been a while since I have last written.
I have Pro Tools LE 8.4 along with the Mbox2. I am interested in using virtual instruments with Pro Tools. So I have created an instrument track, from there I have selected the virtual instrument to use (Structure Free) and thats what I have noticed that the signal meter is very low for that track. Thinking it is what it is...I connected a pair of headphones to the headphone output of the Mbox2, and when cranked to full, it was extremely low sounding. I came from a background of recording using the Yamaha AW16G, and was always told that using proper gain structure, you want a strong signal to noise ratio, strong enough, but no clipping. What confuses me is that the Pro Tools virtual instrument track is actually a lot less level of a signal that when I was previously recording other instruments using a Yamaha AW16G. I was thinking about increasing the gain on the virtual instrument, but that will only give you about a 6dB increase...So I would like to know what are some other alternatives to increasing the sound of a virtual instrument and is this normal with virtual instuments or am I doing something wrong? |
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Re: PTLE & Virtual Instruments: Low Level Signal?!
What patch are you selecting within Structure Free?
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Re: PTLE & Virtual Instruments: Low Level Signal?!
I tried both, the drum patches and the sine wave patches.
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