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Hi, can someone explain (in lamens terms) how to set up ableton and battery in the following way.

I want to have Battery on Track 1 and have the kit I put in on seperate channels.

for example : Kik is on cell 1 ... Midi Track 2 (underneath the battery VST on Track 1 in arrange window... then the snare on Track 3 and hihats on track 4...

So I can input MIDI data on seperate tracks for corresponding audio.
Then I can process that individual channel say dist on kik or reverb on snare...

THEN...

route the whole drum kit set of tracks through a bus to another channel where ican then add a limiter / compressor and automate THAT track individually as well, so that the drums sounds together and tight no matter what parts are playing on the first 3 tracks as mentioned above...?

Hope I have explained this simply enough...

I have tried directing the audio signal from one track to another, and I KNOW i am missing something really simple.... please can someone explain this in a tutorial or post an .als file set up as above with battery 2 with no kit in it and all routing completed... at least then i can reverse engineer the process... thx in advance to the scholars on this site...

For each midi track, you need to route its output to the relevant Battery input. So you'd select the Midi To channel in the top box to be the Battery channel, then in the bottom box select which Battery input you want it on.

In the Battery window, look in Cell Control. You select the midi input you want in there. These match the inputs you give in the Midi To settings! Down at the bottom right, you select the output you want.

To use an output, create an Audio track and set the Audio From channel to the Battery channel in the top box, then in the bottom box select the output you want.

Et voila!