Combining NI Battery with Drum Racks / Midi Effect Racks
Combining NI Battery with Drum Racks / Midi Effect Racks
For those of you who missed this in the other thread:
Under the following link I provided a Howto plus some prepared Live sets for combining Battery with the new Drum Racks of Live 7. It will enable you to do this:
http://www.native-instruments.com/forum ... post354563
Have fun!
Under the following link I provided a Howto plus some prepared Live sets for combining Battery with the new Drum Racks of Live 7. It will enable you to do this:
http://www.native-instruments.com/forum ... post354563
Have fun!
Last edited by Timur on Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
Huh, why Midi interface? Battery runs as VST and as such can be selected as an External Instrument, just use the dropdown menü and chose the Live track that Battery is loaded on.morerecords wrote:Awesome thanks for that. Except... I don't use a MIDI interface, is there a way to route midi to multi channel MIDI instrument without? There doesn't appear to be
Your Rack plays note C-2 on all pads!? How does Addictive Drums know which sound to play? Are you using one Midi channel per drum-sound instead of one note per sound?
By the way, you don't need to create an extra Midi track for Addictive Drums, you can just put it on one/the first Drum Rack pad. Saves one track space.
By the way, you don't need to create an extra Midi track for Addictive Drums, you can just put it on one/the first Drum Rack pad. Saves one track space.
WIth AD there are 40 or so midi hits ranging from C1-A#4 (Snare Rimshot, Snare Sidestick, Tom 1 Rimshot, Tom 1 Open etc) but there are only 12 audio out channels. The audio out is grouped into 1 of the 12 audio out channels.
Channel Out 1 - All Snare hits
Channel Out 2 - All Tom hits etc ...
Because there is not a dedicated audio channel out for each hit then I need to split the midi in from the audio out. So I start with 3 primary chains in my drum rack - 1 for all the audio outs (Multi Out), 1 for all the midi ins (Midi In) and one for the AD plugin (Master).
The audio out chain gets the audio from AD via external instrument "Audio From" in this chain
The midi in chain is just there to label the drum pads
The plugin chain is there to receive midi in straight from the track
Hope that makes sense?
Channel Out 1 - All Snare hits
Channel Out 2 - All Tom hits etc ...
Because there is not a dedicated audio channel out for each hit then I need to split the midi in from the audio out. So I start with 3 primary chains in my drum rack - 1 for all the audio outs (Multi Out), 1 for all the midi ins (Midi In) and one for the AD plugin (Master).
The audio out chain gets the audio from AD via external instrument "Audio From" in this chain
The midi in chain is just there to label the drum pads
The plugin chain is there to receive midi in straight from the track
Hope that makes sense?
Forgot to say that I am using C-2 on these chains because these are for"audio out" only and I don't want the "midi in" being sent to AD on these chains.Timur wrote:Your Rack plays note C-2 on all pads!? How does Addictive Drums know which sound to play? Are you using one Midi channel per drum-sound instead of one note per sound?
Ah, grouping Audio outs that way seems to make alot of sense. I will try that with Battery, too. Since all your pads send C2 to AD for the sole purpose of being an Audio return. Does that mean that C2 is not playing any sound in AD?
Last edited by Timur on Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:25 am, edited 2 times in total.