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is it possible to drumrack uTonic ?

I saw CM article once on interfacing GURU into DR . . .

You mean like one instance into each slot? Of course it is, I just don't see the advantage of doing so. Why not just one instance of multi uTonic on a midi track and routing rest of the seven channels into their own audiotracks and grouping them neatly?

LeifonMars wrote:just one instance of multi uTonic on a midi track and routing rest of the seven channels into their own audiotracks and grouping them neatly?

that's what I was trying to express exactly - would you kindly walk-me through the steps to do so ?

Mister Natural wrote:

LeifonMars wrote:just one instance of multi uTonic on a midi track and routing rest of the seven channels into their own audiotracks and grouping them neatly?

that's what I was trying to express exactly - would you kindly walk-me through the steps to do so ?

1. create 1 midi track and seven (7) audio tracks

2. place one instance of uTonic Multi on the midi track

3. route the seven remaining channels of uTonic to the audio tracks by selecting MicroTonic from each audio tracks Audio From menus and the MicroTonic channel you wish to route (i.e. MT -1 , MT-2 etc.)

4. Select all the tracks and group them by command+g or ctrl+g

Thanks Leif

Respect

there is a better way to do this using drum racks:

*load an instance of microtonic multi on a drum cell

*for the remaining 7 cells, load the external instrument ableton device

*set up each device to both receive audio from and send midi to the corresponding drum in microtonic,

*once you get it working right, save the device to abelton's library so you dont have to go through this again

Android Bishop wrote:there is a better way to do this using drum racks:

*load an instance of microtonic multi on a drum cell

*for the remaining 7 cells, load the external instrument ableton device

*set up each device to both receive audio from and send midi to the corresponding drum in microtonic,

*once you get it working right, save the device to abelton's library so you dont have to go through this again

The only trouble is, which kind of bugs me, is that drum racks channels don't have individual return sends, that's why I rarely use drum racks and instead favor audio tracks for routing. But sure, drum rack allows you to save it as a device, which makes it faster to set up in case you don't like creating template sets. Good point that external device though, didn't think of that. I guess I'm too used to using them only for easy routing external hardware.