Try recording to a stereo track using the input 1/2 option. Then after you are done right click on the track and choose the split to two mono tracks option. Can’t remember the exact wording but pro tools allows you to split a stereo track into two mono tracks
> On Apr 16, 2017, at 5:03 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> > wrote: > > OK, so let me try to explain my situation, and what I'm trying to do. > > So, I have ProTools 12, not sure the exact build, I need to look, but it is > 12. That much, I do! know, and OSX Siera, although I seriously doubt that > matters. > > I'm currently for this project using a Blue Bluebird microphone which is > directly connected with an XLR cable one end in the bottom of the mike, the > other end into the mike input 1 on my interface which is an Alesis Multi-Mix > 4. Then, obviously, the multi-mix 4 is simply just going into the mac via USB. > > With the way that this interface works, and being it uses the native USB > codec OSX drivers, none specific to the board, PT only sees one IO path in or > out. Therefore, I had no choice but to combine both the in and out via the > ProTools agrigate device, then use it as my playback engine. This has posed > absolutely no problems whatsoever. NO latency, nothing. So far, it's worked > beautifully this way. > > So, I want to explain from two angles what my IO path which is super super > super easy looks like. IN fact, it's so easy, you're probably not gonna > believe how easy it is! > > For a mono audio track, under the input path popup button, if I go to > interface sub menu, I have 2 things. > > Main in 1 > and Main In 2. > > If I do the same thing on a stereo audio track, I only have one thing: Main > in 1/2. > > I've not totally yet determined what input 2 is used for. My guess is that if > I was using a stereo track, 1 would be left, and 2 would be right, but since > I'm normally with a mike using a mono track, that wouldn't really matter as > both channels would be unity. > > OK. That all said, here is what I'm trying to do. > > Normally, when I record with my mike, I set the input on a mono track to main > 1. I practically never have had a need to use input 2 on a mono track. Again, > on a stereo track, 1 and 2 are combined, but that's here not rellavent. > > So, what I want to do is, I'm trying to make an audio demo which will have me > speaking in my mike, but then, I want to take through another channel on my > interface. Probably channel 2, and plug a patch cable, one end into the > second input on the multi-mix 4, then the other end to the headphone jack of > my iPhone. This way, I can patch Voiceover directly into the mixer rather > than miking it, which would sound God aweful! > > If I do this however, and plug that cable into the phone/second input channel > on the board, I then on the multimix 4 turn up my output volume dial, and > turn up my trim and get a good signal from the phone, what's happening is, > then, in PT, when I add a mono audio track, set its in to main 1, and it's > output to main 1/2 stereo, then arm the track, if I then record, that one > mono audio track is then capturing and recording both! my mike, and! the > input 2 from the multi-mix 4 with my iPhone. Technically, this is fine, but > I'd really really like to get it where somehow my mike would be on one mono > audio track, and my iPhone's audio would be on another mono audio track. This > way, I could mix each signal seperetly. > > If I set the input on a mono audio track to Main 2, then try recording, I get > no audio at all. Just dead silence. > > Before you say, check the configuration in the multi-mix 4's software panel, > I can't. There is none. This interface doesn't have any software, no drivers, > nothing. You just plug it in, and it just simply works. Or, shall I be a > smart ass and say... doesn't work. LOL, in this case. > > So, is there any way to do this, based on the info I've provided? > > Chris. > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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.
