ProTools and MIDI stuff...

[Ael]

Alright, so does anybody here have ProTools - and more specifically know how to get midi to work with it?

The first thing I want to do is find an XML file for my FantomX8 so the instrument definitions are in ProTools and I still haven't found it on the web, maybe I just don't know how to search for it...

Second of all - how in the seven hells do you get the metronome in protools to work? I am going nuts here! I got the Midi Click Track to work...though what sucks is that you can't have the click going on and record audio at the same time - just doesn't work haha...but I just want a metronome independent of it all to play through protools so I can record in time and have a count off and be able to have measures that I can set markers to for when I record other tracks...I've read in my ProTools Mpowered book but so far that doesn't work...then I read in my other ProTools book but the only way I got the MIDI Click to work was dur, having midi enabled and I'm trying to avoid that possibly...

*sighs* I just want a metronome, is that too hard to ask ? Can anyone out there help me ?

EDIT: If I can't have the metronome through protools is there a way that I can have ProTools and Reason open and have a click track or metronome playing in reason while I record in ProTools and be able to work with that ? Like have the click track from Reason record into protools while I'm recording my song without messing up the audio track with that click noise...? Any possibility with something like that ?

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I'm interested in this question as well. What I've done in the past is to use a mic and record the audio from my metronome for a track, start on the 9th click (2 bar intro) if I'm in 4/4, and use that as the guide track. However, the last time I did that was over winter break, when I knew far less about keyboards, MIDI, etc., so I might be able to figure it out now. It would save some time if someone is already familiar with this though.

[Ael]

I'm waiting for people on the Digidesign Forum to respond to my post if they decide to respond...it would just make things so much easier.

I was thinking and wasn't sure if this would solve it, but maybe if you have your regular audio track and then an Aux Audio track and use ReWire on the Aux Audio track to allow you to play with Reason through your Pro Tools -- then if you set up the click track through Reason and have the Aux Audio Track play that click trick and record while you also record the Audio track and play along, then possibly you can have the clicking on the Aux track and clean audio on the other track at the same time? I'll see if I can figure out how to mess around with that tonight...let me know what you think.

[gaz]

To make a click track, you have to create a new mono/aux input track.
Then go to the top of the track in the mix window, choose one of the inserts and select plug-in>click track (mono). Then turn up the fader.

Dont forget to turn on the metonome button on the transport!

Let me know how it goes.


edit: i just read your question more carefully.

to get the metronome working in playback/recording, double-click the metronome icon on your transport, and a menu should come up with some options. I dont have pro tools here with me now, but as far as i remember, theres options that allow you to have the metronome:

1. Only playing during the countoff
2. Playing during playback, recording and countoff
3. Playing during recording and countoff, but not playback

i think you want recording and countoff, but not playback. Id bet that yours is for some reason set to just play during countoff.

[Ael]

Yeah, I figured it out, thanks I appreciate the help :)