JKZ said:
One synth is all you get with ProTools LE? You mean to say if I use DirectConnect I can work with all the Native Instruments and others synths in ProTools?
Does Reason work with ProTools?
How about GigaSampler?
You don't get any synths with PT. You just get the Digidesign plugins. You can download Vibra 1000 by
Koblo , which is free.
DirectConnect is supported by many, including Native Instruments.
With the UGLi VSTi, you can use VST instruments. There are plenty of them, a lot free. I didn't try this myself, you should go to
the digidesign forum and make a search on that to see how are actual users doing with it.
Reason doesn't interface directly with Protools. Reason uses Rewire, which is another story. There are two ways to interface PT and Reason. The first is running the mac's audio out into the Digi 001. You can record or monitor. If you don't like the quality, you can just record and when you're ready for the mix you can import the Reason loops into PT, thus keeping the quality. You won't have track separation cause you're importing the master stereo track, unless you export one track at a time from Reason.
The other way is to buy a cheap digital out card, put it in another PCI slot on your computer, and then run those digi outs to the Digi's 001 digital ins. That is more expensive but you keep the quality and you can do channel separation. I heard such cards cost like $300 in the States.
For deep details on this, goto
here . Since both programs are cpu hog, check that your machine can handle both of them.
My advice is to download PTFree, then Reason's demo, then the UGLY VSTi and try them together without spending any money.
Cheers, Andrés
