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I just figured out how to get Addictive Drums to integrate with my ProTools.
For some reason I have been struggling with this stuff.

I had been trying to learn to use and integrate Maschine
at the same time and I was not making much progress.

I finally decided to try Addictive Drums.

Today I successfully drug a midi file onto the track,
hit the space bar, and all the drums
went to their individual labeled tracks - Woohoo!

I then imported the guitar track settings that I have successfully set up,
added base, synth and vocal tracks and created what will hopefully
be my standard tracking template.

I think I'm pretty much there now for tracking.

It is going to become difficult for me again when it comes to learning how and
when to insert compressors, reverb, etc. (mixing and mastering), and what
exactly busses and inserts are and how they are set up on PT.

But for now I'm pretty stoked that I am finally getting up and running
with the aspect of tracking the various instruments.
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I've been trying to figure this stuff out for months now.
 
Here's one for you guys.

I haven't actually done it yet, but I assume that the way that I have my tracks set up, that when I wish to print the drums, I just enable/record the aux tracks while playing the midi track.

The PT manuals I have read, have had me creating an "instrument" track for midi instruments, which is where I think I was getting confused.

How do you print the midi data that is in an instrument track?

I would like to create an editable midi track with my synthesizer next and I want to set it up right.

I'm thinking that maybe I should just do a midi track / aux track to keep it easy to work with.

Edit: Looks like I need to make instrument tracks to print to in either instance.
The drums seem to make more sense being on several aux tracks since I am splitting one midi track up into a lot of different "instruments."
I think I can just create one instrument track for the synth.
 
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Hey Sam,

It seems you've got sorted, but here's what I know, if it's useful.


I've never used a midi track. I think they are a throw back from the days when midi tracks were for notation, and and aux were necessary as the output path.
As far as I know, instrument tracks were introduced to combine these two. MIDI -> Synth -> Audio, all in one track.



By printing, do you mean record the audio output of an instrument to wav?
If so, you'd wanna send (or output) your instrument track to an audio track.

For example, the inst track send (or output) is bus 1+2, and the audio track input is bus 1+2.
You then record arm the audio track and go nuts.

I'm pretty sure aux tracks don't actually let you record to them, but don't quote me. I'm not at PT right now.
 
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