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Playing a plugin without a Pro Tools Session
Hi all
Suppose I have a musical idea in my head and I want to bang it out using a piano sound. At present I start Pop Tools, open a new (or previous) session, choose a track, choose an insert and bring up the plugin – etc and then play. It there a quick way to bring up the plugin just to have a quick play? My hunch there is no quick way (i.e. the plugin needs to be used with an active Pro Tools session…). Would love to be able to ‘play’ the plugin outside of Pro Tools… Thanks Mark |
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Re: Playing a plugin without a Pro Tools Session
Make a session that has your piano all ready to go, with whatever additional tracks and inserts you might need, then save it to your desktop.
Then whenever you have that flash of inspiration, just open that session and do a Save As to your audio drive. Not instantaneous, but definitely faster than creating from scratch! |
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Re: Playing a plugin without a Pro Tools Session
Toontrack has a plugin/program with a piano sampler (EZKeys) that will let you run it as a standalone (with the ability to track input as MIDI) or as an RTAS plugin within PT. I find I use it for just what you asked about. Also if I happen to have a plug-in heavy track open in PT (therefore lots of latency due to ADC being active) and I want to get something down (or play along to see how it fits).... I'll use EZkeys outside of PT....
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Re: Playing a plugin without a Pro Tools Session
Save a template with all your VI's loaded.
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Playing a plugin without a Pro Tools Session
Use the standalone version of your vsti/sampler... Kontakt for ex.
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