Hello, One of the main reasons to convert instrument tracks to audio is to free up system resources. A virtual instrument drains more from your system than the equivalent audio file. Actual MIDI tracks are more for outboard MIDI gear or if you want to have several MIDI tracks that are individually editable but all point to a single instance of a virtual instrument. I have done this many times with drums so I can have separate MIDI tracks for hi hat, cymbals snare/kick etc. Makes it easier later to do editing. The way to convert from instrument to audio is basically to output the instrument to the input of a bus or another track and record it like you were recording an actual instrument. Sonar had a nice feature called synth freezing which made this process automatic...unfortunately Pro Tools does not have anything like that as far as I am aware. Hope this helps.
On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 11:23:12 AM UTC-4, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > Hi there. > There are, as i understand it, 2 types of MIDI tracks in Pro tools, the > usual midi tracks and the instrument tracks. The advantage of the > instrument tracks again as i understand it, is that they in a way combine > Midi and Audio and yet i hear that the recommendation is to convert these > tracks into Audio, so i ask how you knowledgeable folks on the list go > about doing? Do you let the instrument tracks stay as they are or do you > convert them to Audio? What would be the advantage with conversion to > Audio? > /Krister > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
