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Recording Multiple MIDI Outputs Simultaneously
I've been playing around with MDrummer, a VI Drum plugin. There's a feature where you can send each drum to it's own MIDI output. Once the plugin's mixer is setup to send all these individual drums to separate MIDI channels, how do I record them simultaneously?
PT only lets me enable record one MIDI track at a time, i.e. when I enable record on the second MIDI channel, the first MIDI channel's record button disengages. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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Some drum vi's allow in their mixer routing the ability to send each drum audio output to separate tracks in the host in this case PT. I do that with BFD3; I send each drum's output to a separate aux track which then feeds an audio track from a send. I do that so I can hear the drum sounds without having to record enable an audio track. I feed the output of the aux tracks to a bus and the outputs of the audio tracks to a bus. |
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Your quote is what I'm referring to, although it's with the MDrummer Demo. The plugin's Mixer section shows all the drums in the kit being used, and allows you to output each to its own channel. I assume these are MIDI channels.. they go from 1 to 16. I want to play, and record, the drum line in real-time, and output each drum to it's own PT track.. so I can have control over whatever processing is needed while mixing. Are you saying that I need an Aux track for each drum, set it's input to the corresponding midi output and then create a send to it's own Audio track? In my case enabling record on each Audio track, to capture the live drum performance. Can I skip the Aux track part and just set each Audio track's input to each midi output? Then I could make Aux drum busses for what I feel is necessary. Hopefully that didn't come across as total nonsense. Thanks for the help. |
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Something I've done for kicks is to completely change the kit piece from say that snare to a cymbal - gives a radically different sound and feel that may take things in a whole 'nother direction. |
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Are you inputting the drum MIDI parts by keyboard, or by using an electronic drum pad(s)? Either way, the VI can use one of the 16 MIDI channels (drums use "10" -- bass gtr "6" -- keyboard "1" -- etc.). You have to tell your recording software which channel you want to record. Also, for complicated setups, hardware (or virtual software) can allow for multiple MIDI connections. That is, a separate interface that allows for multiple MIDI connections. (Each MIDI wire can carry 16 channels.)
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I always use Instrument tracks in PT. That's what holds the MIDI driving the vi and you don't have to sweat the MIDI routing - it's all taken care of. If you go old school and use separate track for the MIDI and an aux track to host the vi then you have to create your own routing for the MIDI to go to the vi. Where things can get hairy with vi's and MIDI is if the vi is multi-timbral and say it has 16 slots for instruments. You could drive all 16 slots from one MIDI channel but that would be total chaos sounding. The better way is to have the vi on an Instrument track which has one MIDI channel routed automatically to the vi. Then you'd create 15 more MIDI tracks and route each one separately to the vi hosted in the aforementioned Instrument track. But this is something you need not worry about with any drum vi. One Instrument track and done until you render to audio. |
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I was initially having trouble setting up vmpk to work as a midi controller in PT; it took me a few days to get it running properly. Then I made the mistake of creating this post before sitting at the computer and playing around with MDrummer. I'll have a chance to do that today and come back here if I get stuck.. although it seems like everything's been explained well enough for me to figure it out. I'm still not 100% on how the MIDI routing works, but you've given me a great starting point, and I have the manual. Thanks again.
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