Tracktion/Rewire Question: Separate Tracks for Reason Drum

[amyjer]

I am using Reason Drums through Rewire in Tracktion 2 and would like to direct each drum or a group of drums to a separate midi track. Has anyone successfully accomplished this is Tracktion 2 for Reason or another Rewire program? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jeremy

[Hovmod]

Hm. Yes and no.
You can't send MIDI to Reason on more than one port (well, you can, but Reason won't let more than one input 'play' any instrument at a time, so it doesn't matter). But you can send up to 64 mono channels of audio back from Reason to Tracktion. So your best bet would be to arrange the midi stuff in Reason, hook up the outputs from your drumkits on the Hardware interface and bring them into as many tracks in T2 as you need.
That way you can have the drums as separated as you wish in T2. But if you want to send the MIDI from T2, you'll have to do one at a time.

[_oswald]

Yes and yes. Just send the ReDrum Channel or NNXT outputs to their own stereo inputs on the Hardware Interface, then set corresponding ReWire filters on the correct tracks in Tracktion and sequence only the corresponding drum on that track.

I bolded that last bit because if you have C1 (IIRC, that's Redrum's 1st Channel) being triggerd on two different tracks, it'll double in volume on the track with the ReWire filter set to receive those outputs from the Hardware Interface.

[amyjer]

Thanks for the replies. I hooked up the outputs on the NN-XT to the hardware interface. I created a rack filter for reason and placed the rack filter on multiple tracks. However, the filter still shows only two audio outputs (left and right). I am able to set the rack filter on the each track to a different pair of outputs. I want to play the drum kit in real time to record MIDI across the various tracks (according the T2 manual section on rack filters I should be able to to do this) - is this the best way to accomplish my goal?

Thanks again for all the help.

Jeremy

[ambrosea]

Thanks for the replies. I hooked up the outputs on the NN-XT to the hardware interface. I created a rack filter for reason and placed the rack filter on multiple tracks. However, the filter still shows only two audio outputs (left and right). I am able to set the rack filter on the each track to a different pair of outputs. I want to play the drum kit in real time to record MIDI across the various tracks (according the T2 manual section on rack filters I should be able to to do this) - is this the best way to accomplish my goal?

Thanks again for all the help.

Jeremy

You have to remember that each track deals with a pair of stereo inputs and outputs and the same goes at the end of the day for the overall routing of the rilters. if want each track to handle a mono channel then simply assign the both of the outputs to the same channel.