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- 25 years working with Computers and Digital Music.
- 10 years as a professional Live Sound Engineer.
- 5 years as a professional Studio Recording Engineer.
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Question Hi,
I recently purchased XLN Audio's "Addictive Drums".
I absolutely love it. I own an MPC 4000 and Pro Tools 7.4 (DIGI 002).
My problem is that because you have to host Addictive Drums via Pro Tools, I
have to sequence my drum tracks within PT's sequencer and I don't really like
PT's sequencer for creating songs.
I would like to some how send the Addictive Drums sounds to my MPC 4000
and record/sequence on the MPC. I love the MPC's sequencer.
Is this possible?
I have midi cables rigged up, from my outs to PT's ins and vice versa.
Thanks in advance!
Answer When you set up the Addictive Drums in Pro Tools, you set it up as an Instrument that is triggered by MIDI. This MIDI can come from the track, or from an external source. Set the Pro Tools track input to your MPC - this should cause the drums to be triggered from any MIDI input sent by the MPC... which should allow you to program the tracks directly on the MPC's sequencer. (You will have to ensure the MPC's sequencer data is being sent out on the MIDI output).
When you are done, you can simply record the MIDI track onto the Pro Tools track (or drag and drop it directly from the MPC RAM to your hard drive).
Of course, you can also play the pads and record your playing directly into a Pro Tools track.
For this to work well, you will need a good ASIO2 audio interface set to less than 2 mS latency (reduce your sample buffer size to as small as possible) otherwise, you will hear an obvious delay between the MPC and the drum sound... which is especially critical when programming beats.
It could also help to have a USB2 interface for the MIDI, rather than a standard MIDI interface, but this is not really necessary.
As a final resort, you could resample your favourite drum sounds from the Addictive Drums into the MPC and run them natively on the unit.
I'm curious what it is about the MPC sequencer that you like so much?
Let me know if you have any further questions.
jz~
