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Out of MIDI tracks. May we have some more please?
Now that I don't make plugins any longer, I have some more time to go back to my first love of composing. I don't have the same focus as composers writing for film or TV, but I've learned a lot about efficient workflow from them. And one of those things is have a good template. Why build up a project from scratch when you can just load a template and use the parts you need?
I purchased a new Mac Pro 7,1 back at the end of 2019. I stuffed it with memory and fast PCI storage for VIs. So it's easily capable of doing what would have taken multiple machines before. But I've bumped into the 1024 MIDI track limitation and it won't take much longer to max out on the 512 instrument tracks as well. So even though my machine can handle it, I can't make the template I need. I'll still have to deal with a lot of track presets, loading only what I need, so that I can stay under the limit. Seems like those track counts might simply be compile-time constants in PT code. But I've been programming long enough not to make such assumptions. I am curious if this limitation has begun effecting those of you doing music for picture. If it's not hitting you now, can you see it as a future issue? |
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Re: Out of MIDI tracks. May we have some more please?
Totally OT, but I thought when Izotope acquired Exponential Audio, that you were going to work for them. Is that not the case?
If so, that’s a real shame. Adore your reverbs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Re: Out of MIDI tracks. May we have some more please?
I do work for them, but that's not going to be forever. I'm teaching what I know to a very able group of scientists and engineers and I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do. It's been a 40-year career in engineering for me and I do think that's about enough.
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Re: Out of MIDI tracks. May we have some more please?
Hehehe... Fair enough.
Hopefully they keep up the solid foundation you’ve built with the reverbs. I’m a massive fan and user of Izotope products too. Best of luck moving forward and sorry for the slight thread derail. Was just curious. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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But I agree, unlimited MIDI tracks would be a welcome addition for those of us doing that work. And, congrats on the sale to iZotope. Phoenixverb and R2 have had good spots in my templates for years. |
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Re: Out of MIDI tracks. May we have some more please?
I’ve had to make some concessions to make my template work, and I can certainly see the 1024 track limit becoming a problem in the future as I continue to expand my VI library. VEPro will never run out of expandability but there seem to be some annoying limits of ProTools that I will (or already have) run into first. Also on a related topic Mr. Cranes, have you tested Stratus/Symphony on 2020.3? Are 7.1.2 and 7.0.2 verbs working for you? I”m getting a weird compatibility error (AAE 20038) only on those two version of Stratus and Symphony.
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Re: Out of MIDI tracks. May we have some more please?
Out of curiosity, what would ever need 1000+ instruments? Are there any examples of this I can check out? Or is it that you have separate midi tracks for the different articulations of each instrument?
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Re: Out of MIDI tracks. May we have some more please?
It's mainly the latter (although the former isn't out of the question). Lots of instruments may have 8-10 articulations and it really is easier to put each articulation on a separate channel. Otherwise I'd have to keep a notebook of all the keyswitches and I'd have my nose in that notebook all the time
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https://www.midikinetics.com/product...ser-tools-pro/ |
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