Bus and Aux Help to monitor tracks......

[anthonymunoz]

I am new to this so please let me know if I am not getting my problem across.

I am running BFD 1.5 in Pro Tools L.E. 7.3. I have BFD insterted into an insturment track with all of the drum tracks (Rooms, PZMs, Kick, Snare etc) as the input of their particular tracks. The way I have it set up is: a drum track will only monitor its inserts (compression etc), when that track is record enabled, or recorded. My goal is to first build drum parts by looping a short sectoion at a time with midi merge enabled so that I can build a beat part-by-part. The problem I am having is that when I record the midi data is also records the audio on the drum tracks. When I go back to edit the midi parts, the old audio is still there from before and now both are heard.

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My question is: How do I get the midi sounds to be heard from the individual (drum) tracks that might have inserts, without recording the audio? Is there a way that the track can be used for the inserts but the audio signal is just being monitored and not recorded? I'm sure this is a simple set up, but at this point I am lost.

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From what I understand I need to set up aux tracks to monitor the audio. But I really have no idea how. Please help!!

Thanks, Anthony

[GTBannah]

(Disclaimer) This could be totally wrong! Anyway ....

Try setting uip as many Auxes as there are outputs from BFD;

Set the Auxes' inputs to match BFD's outputs, i.e. BFD Output #1 to Aus #1's input etc;

Set all Auxes putputs to Analogue 1-2;

Record the MIDI info;

Hopefully you should be able tom hear the BFD sounds even before recording;

See line #1