VST to RTAS and PROTEUS X

[GreyLion]

I may not have a good answer for you, jlsii. KVR may or may not end up being a happy place for you. I do encourage you to lurk a bit, read extensively here, get a feel for the zeitgeist of the place. I'm relatively new as a poster here, but I'm pretty sure that I 'get' KVR. But that can take a bit of study.

Off Topic and Hyde Park Corner definitely get non-serious and sometimes a bit flamey. I personally find the looseness and willingness to talk about almost anything to be enjoyable, and wasn't shocked or upset by the LSD thread. I almost chimed in with some advice, but it seemed to be getting taken care of rather nicely.

Rather than focus on that, you might want to consider the extensive help that's usually offered to newbies who wander in out of the cold. There's a depth and breadth of experience and technical expertise, and a willingness to help, that you won't find in too many places.

One thing that you may have immediately run afoul of is that the community here is pretty protective of the developers who have set up their support forums here. They're an important part of the community, too. You may have noticed that folks were chiming in trying to help you with your situation, in the support forum, even though they weren't official support staff. I think this is a good thing, though it may not suit everyone.

And, yeah, I would have moved the PT thread out to some place like Hosts pretty quickly, when it looked like the problem wasn't with an FXPansion product. Different places have different etiquettes, and it takes time to learn them. I have the strong impression that your experience here hasn't so far been a happy one. That may not turn around, but if you're interested in learning more as a digitally-based music-maker, there isn't a better place on the web. It might well be worthwhile for you to take the time to learn the spoken and unspoken tribal rules.

And I hope it works out for you. I'm gonna need all the help I can get with M-Powered myself, over the next year or so, and you might end up having wisdom that I can benefit from.

That said, I do surf some other forums (fora?) and find that the Digi forum here: http://duc.digidesign.com/ is becoming more interesting to me, though it doesn't have nearly the traffic KVR does.

There simply isn't a big PT contingent here because the stated focus here is VST's and VSTi's and PT doesn't run them natively.

You might also check out www.gearslutz.com . I'm seeing more entries about PT there in a week than I do in a month here.

And the old PT studio dogs, even crustier than the elders at KVR, seem to hang out here: http://marsh.prosoundweb.com/

Take care,

GreyLion

[jlsiii]

Take care,
GreyLion

Today I called up yesterday's saved session that had everything working fine with THREE tracks, Midi, Aux, and Audio, all putting out and with the session able to record, but today nothing worked the same.

I couldn't hear the piano sound until I had record enabled both the Midi track and the audio track (not the way it was). And even then the piano was very, very faint.

So I started a new session, setup an aux track and a Midi track, and hooked them up. When I alt-clicked on the aux track volume to set it to 0, A separate fader window appeared that had the fader muted.

I clicked on the orange mute button and got the warning that I couldn't change the aux track mute assignment while I was in Low Latency Monitoring Mode. After I changed that setting, the two-track (Midi/Aux) setup worked, and the piano was normal volume. Not faint, like before.

You mentioned YOUR sounds were faint.

Maybe it is related to a Low Latency Monitoring setting.

Just a flash I thought I'd pass on.
I could be wrong about what is happening with the volume, though.

Regards,

JLSIII

[GreyLion]

Cool. Thanks, jlsii! I'll check that out tonight. I think I did turn Low Latency Monitoring on when I set up M-Powered. I've been reading, and I think I'm gonna try to stick with Instrument Tracks as much as possible.

My main desire, right now, is to be able to route multiple MIDI drum tracks through JamStix. And I have the impression that Instrument Tracks will do that, once I get my head wrapped around it.

More learning.....

Take care,

GreyLion