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I'm trying to lay down a basic rhythm tract for a song using boom. So I made a stereo instrument tract, from the boom plugin, when I record it doesn't lay down any waves in the edit region, just a blank box. So it's recording but nothing shows up. And it does the same for the other ists, like piano, etc.

what am i doing wrong?
 
I'm trying to lay down a basic rhythm tract for a song using boom. So I made a stereo instrument tract, from the boom plugin, when I record it doesn't lay down any waves in the edit region, just a blank box. So it's recording but nothing shows up. And it does the same for the other ists, like piano, etc.

what am i doing wrong?

If you're recording, you need to hold down a note on your keyboard.

Otherwise, you can just click to insert a midi note in there, and it should play whatever's on that note in Boom..

I think that's how it works. I don't use it much.
 
well I've watched the demo and I can't get any of the instruments that come with the software to record. I must no be setting something up correct. need a step-by-step. :confused:
 
well I've watched the demo and I can't get any of the instruments that come with the software to record. I must no be setting something up correct. need a step-by-step. :confused:



Are you trying to record the audio output? If so, make sure you are routing the output of your instrument track to an audio track via a bus.

If you are just hitting record on an instrument track, and then just clicking buttons in Pro Tools, it's no wonder it's no recording...
 
pezking, that's it. The demo didn't say anything about routing it to a bus. All I am is a songwriter trying to get a decent sounding home demo. First I had a 4 track cassette recorder, then a 8 track minidisk recorder, then a 8 track portastudio recorder, but this is the way to go, directly where I can edit on my laptop.

That worked, thanks

Scott
 
Glad you got in working.

Just to clarify, when you hit record on an instrument track, it will record the MIDI input, not the audio.

An instrument track is actually a combination of an Aux channel, and a MIDI track. Before Pro Tools 7.3 (I think...) instrument tracks didn't exist, and to use MIDI instruments you had to route a MIDI track to an Aux.
 
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