[moodswing]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Toney Robinson:


This is what I do. I have no idea if this is how anyone else does it. I use a separate software midi sequencer before I even create the ProTools session. I am making the transition from an old copy of MidiSoft Studio to Cakewalk Home Studio, but any
seqencer program will do, it's a matter of what features you find important. Even that isn't as important as it used to be because of the fierce competition, they all pretty much do the same thing. I prefer a sequencer that allows easy editing in music score view. I simply place the notes on the staff as though I was composing on paper. You probably are aware that each standard MIDI drum sound is assigned to a particular musical note. I use a separate track/staff for each piece of the kit. As soon as I have a complete pattern, I copy and paste it as needed and fill in the bridges. If all you needed was drums at this point, you would stop here and save the file in MIDI format (most of these sequencers in addition to standard MIDI, have their own native file format that is not MIDI). If you have other midi instruments like keyboards, you would want to add their tracks before you export the midi file for importing to PT. OK, now you have all of your accompaniment including the drums saved in .MID format. I then create my ProTools session and use "Import MIDI to track" feature. All the MIDI tracks are now in PT. Use the MIDI out port on the Digi001 to drive the drum machines, keyboards, etc. There are a variety of ways to deal with it from there. I have a dedicated PC with Gigasampler installed, so I create .WAV files for each of the MIDI tracks one at a time and then import them into PT, but most people would just use their drum machines and other midi devices in real time and use an analog mixer to mix them with the audio tracks (vocals, etc.) you create.
Hope I have been clear enough and haven't confused you.

Toney<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

ill chew on that for awhile. Makes sense. Thank you.