I am attempting to setup Blue Cat's Patchwork in Pro Tools 12 on MacOS 10.14.6 Mojave.
I am wondering if anyone has step by step guides to walk through how to setup something like InstaChord inside of Patchwork and be able to track the midi chords generated by Instachord within Pro Tools 12.
I've seen a few question and answer posts, but following those steps I either lose the audio chain and cannot hear what's playing, or InstaChord simply seems to stop responding to midi triggers within Patchworks until I change a preset in Omnisphere (or another synth vst/au) and then temporarily get sound back. However I have not been able to keep it all setup consistently and unable to find a precise setup to have PathWork running InstaChord then Omnisphere and Pro Tools capturing the midi chords generated by InstaChord.
Should this all be configured and tracked on a single Instrument Track? If so, any idea what the input and output settings of the Inst track need to be, as well as the midi in & out of the Patchwork settings?
Or does this need to send from an Inst track to a Midi track setting the midi track's inputs to the Patchwork?
Any help and specific steps, detailed tutorial, or anything like that would be greatly appreciated because at the moment I feel like I've just lost out on the investment into these plugins :/
Detailed steps for configuring BC Patchwork with Pro Tools 12 to track midi
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Blue Cat Audio Blue Cat Audio https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=39981 - KVRAF
- 6345 posts since 8 Sep, 2004 from Paris (France)
From your description, it seems that you might be using the effect version of Patchwork, instead of the instrument version ("PatchWork Synth"), which would cause Pro Tools to stop processing. Check this "PatchWork: effect or instrument" article for more details.
Regarding your specific scenario, I understand that you want the output of Instachord to go both to the instrument loaded into the same PatchWork and to Pro Tools? If that's the case, using both the "Host" and a virtual port output for instachord should do the trick, as far as PatchWork is concerned.
On the Pro Tools side, I would use an instrument track with PatchWork loaded as an instrument on it, and a separate MIDI track to capture the output of PatchWork.
Or you can use the same setup as in our MIDI effects in Pro Tools tutorial, and use Instachord loaded inside PatchWork as a MIDI effect only.
Hope this helps. Pro Tools' MIDI implementation is definitely a bit awkward!
Regarding your specific scenario, I understand that you want the output of Instachord to go both to the instrument loaded into the same PatchWork and to Pro Tools? If that's the case, using both the "Host" and a virtual port output for instachord should do the trick, as far as PatchWork is concerned.
On the Pro Tools side, I would use an instrument track with PatchWork loaded as an instrument on it, and a separate MIDI track to capture the output of PatchWork.
Or you can use the same setup as in our MIDI effects in Pro Tools tutorial, and use Instachord loaded inside PatchWork as a MIDI effect only.
Hope this helps. Pro Tools' MIDI implementation is definitely a bit awkward!