How to use a multiout drum plugin in a rack?

noou · Post by **noou** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:34 pm

I guys,

I wonder how could I efficiently use a multiout drum plugin (as impulse or the great microTonic by Sonic Charge) in a drum or instrument rack...

In other words, I'd love to have a "folding effect" as racks provide, instead of having 1 midi track for the drum plugin and (e.g.) one audio track for each audio out provided by the plugin.

Any tips?

Thanks!

Geezus · Post by **Geezus** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:52 pm

I'd like to know this as well, for the exact same reason (microtonic rules)

flippo2007 · Post by **flippo2007** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:06 pm

Hi Guys!

As far as i understood your question, it can be solved just like i solved the same situation with my drums in Reasons NNXT-sampler.

Put one External Instrument on each Pad you want to activate and tell the instrument, which external channels it should be assigned to.

So every external instrument plays different notes on the same plug-in/instrument/ Microtonic BUT every of these instruments receive audio from different channels of the plug-in /instrument/ Microtonic.

The effect is one folded rack-view of one drum rack with mixable sounds.

I hope you know what i mean...

greetz, Flippo

noou · Post by **noou** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:53 pm

flippo2007 wrote:Hi Guys!

As far as i understood your question, it can be solved just like i solved the same situation with my drums in Reasons NNXT-sampler.

Put one External Instrument on each Pad you want to activate and tell the instrument, which external channels it should be assigned to.

So every external instrument plays different notes on the same plug-in/instrument/ Microtonic BUT every of these instruments receive audio from different channels of the plug-in /instrument/ Microtonic.

The effect is one folded rack-view of one drum rack with mixable sounds.

I hope you know what i mean...

greetz, Flippo

thank you so much! it works like a charm!
sorry for the newbie question, but I'm totally new to Live 7 and I forgot about external instruments

flippo2007 · Post by **flippo2007** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:18 pm

bensuthers · Post by **bensuthers** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:49 pm

but as far as I can tell External Instrument only lets you send to external instruments - not to ones internal to Live.

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:49 am

what do you mean by "internal to live"

if it is truly internal to live, i.e. Sampler etc. then all this is irrelevant.

External Instrument plug works for VST and ReWire as well as for actual hardware

bensuthers · Post by **bensuthers** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:46 am

It doesn't work for me VST - at least not on Drumazon (which is where I want to use it).

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:29 am

hmm,

weak

Raikard · Post by **Raikard** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:55 pm

Interesting thing, but with microtonic i can only use the multiout feature, if i want to use also a single clip to trigger different notes on a single pad/sound of microtonic??
I've to create also a midi group channel with all the midi to microtonic routing??
The external instruments adds the multiout feature but don't permit to put a midi clip under the single channel.

I'm trying to sort out the problem using a combination of the midi effects.
As finished and solved out something i will post it.