copy instrument track to midi track

[trev1238]

hi guys
I'm trying to copy a instrument track to a midi track
originally i made 7 separate instrument tracks for addictive drums then realised that this was eating up cpu
so i created a master audio track sterio and inserted addictive drums on the master fader
then i created individual midi tracks and copied the midi data to them and made the original instrument tracks inactive it worked fine until the last one I'm getting different drum sounds on the last track
all the other midi tracks have the output to addictive drums 1,1 and work but when i copy the last track set the out put the same i get snare instead of brush hits ?
must be a routing problem excuse my ignorance new to game only had the rig six weeks

[zedhed]

I'm assuming your goal is to record each separate piece of your drum kit to their own 'discrete' channels in Pro Tools. If this is what you are trying to achieve you are going about it the wrong way.

In your Pro Tools session create;
1 Master track
1 Midi track
1 Instrument track
8 Mono tracks & 4 Stereo Audio tracks (you will see that these tracks correspond to the number of channels in Addictive Drums plugin). Name each Audio track; Kick, snare etc.

Instantiate 1 instance of Addictive Drums on the Instrument track

On the Midi Track set the input selector to 'All' and the output selector to Addictive Drums channel 1.

Now open Addictive Drums plugin on instrument track and read page 14 of the manual which explains how to route each channel output;
http://xlnaudio.usa.s3.amazonaws.com...al-english.pdf

Once you've routed the outputs in the plugin, go to the mixer window in Pro Tools and assign each Audio channel input selector to it's corresponding output from Addictive. Record enable each track.

Leave your Master track with nothing on it, at least for now.

Now you can play your midi controller with the midi channel record enabled and you should hear your drums.

Read the Pro Tools reference guide to learn about how to use the tools in the midi edit window to map/edit/draw midi notes.

Once you've mastered this you may want to read up about creating a submix, but for now this should get you up & running.

[panamajack]

Welcome to the forum, Trev1238.

Zedhed's explanation of the AD audio output tracks setup is thorough. I looked a bit at the manual and agree.

But I can see an advantage to your seven MIDI tracks. The manual states you can select channels by MIDI (as opposed to OMNI), by clicking the icon near the "C" copy and "P" paste buttons.

This would simplify separate part input, and give you seven staves in the score editor to check and label your parts. It would also permit individual quantizing of the AD MIDI parts, adding swing to some hits, but not others.

Zedhed's 8 mono and 4 stereo audio tracks suggestion would let you fine tune the AD output.

[albee1952]

Its actually a bit simpler than zedhed points out. There is no need of the midi track as all the midi can sit on the instrument track(I do it all the time). The rest is dead on, and there should be a 'paste special" function that allows you to copy/paste all the midi data(from a bunch of midi tracks) to a single instrument track. Maybe you need to have the midi merge turned on(on the big transport window)

[zedhed]

Always plenty of ways to skin a cat

[trev1238]

thanks zed for taking the time to explain its working now cpu problem seems to have vanished nice one
thanks to everyone for your response