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Originally Posted by omenman
Thank You
I have since been intouch with AVID and have had everything deleted and started again and re installed.
I now have a ..
KORG PA50SD
midi out to midi in on the Mbox
Left and Right outputs to a stereo channel on my mixer to the amp and speakers
KORG M1
midi out to midi in on the Mbox
Left and Right outputs to a stereo channel on my mixer to the amp and speakers
Mbox 2 usb to laptop
Laptop mini jack output to the mixer to "hear" the playback of recorded sounds
..is this configuration right?
Cheers peeps its much appreciated
I am a qualified vocalist who just wants to improve my keyboard writing skills and this is all new goobly goff to me !!  |
Whether your setup is right it depends on what you are trying to do. Are you trying to record the audio output of your keyboards, the MIDI output of your keyboards or what? What version MBox do you have?
If you're trying to record the MIDI out of your keyboard into ProTools you need to create an Instrument track. In MIDI preferences set Default Thru Instrument to First Selected MIDI track (which also works for Instrument tracks). Back on the Instrument track select an instrument on any insert; for this discussion use DB33 or Structure both of which are Avid supplied instruments. Set a patch in whichever instrument you're using. Play your keyboard and you should hear music. To record the MIDI enable the track for recording and press f12 and you're off to the races. All this does is record the MIDI you're playing. Depending on what version of PT you have (you haven't mentioned that) if you have PT11 rendering the recorded MIDI to audio is easy. Route the output of the Instrument track to a bus. Then right click that bus and select bounce and a new window will open up with options to bounce the audio and bring it back into the session on a new audio track. There are several options here. Nice thing with this is you can render things offline which in this case means faster than real time. If you have an earlier version of PT you'd do this: click on the output slot of the Instrument track and select New Track and when the next window comes up select Audio, stereo (if you used a stereo Instrument track), give the track a name and hit Enter. A new audio track is then created to receive the audio generated by the MIDI in the Instrument track. Record enable the newly created audio track and hit f12 to do the render.
You haven't said what computer and operating system you're running but if you're on a Mac you have to set up things in OSX audio/MIDI setup.