Sequencing Midi With A Virtual Instrument Plug-In - Avid Pro Tools Express Instrucciones

Sequencing MIDI with a
Virtual Instrument Plug-In
The following provides an example of how to
program a MIDI sequence on an Instrument
track to play a virtual instrument plug-in. This
example use the Xpand!
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The Xpand! plug-in is included with the
Pro Tools Express download as part of a sep-
arate installer: the Avid Virtual Instruments
Express Installer. Be sure to run the Avid Vir-
tual Instruments Express Installer, including
the associated content, before proceeding
with this example. For more information, see
the Pro Tools Express Installation Guide.
What is MIDI?
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
data is not audio. MIDI does not generate sound.
MIDI is a way for MIDI-equipped devices—like
synthesizers, samplers, controllers, keyboards,
and sequencers—to communicate control data,
to "talk" to one another. MIDI effectively tells
sound generating devices (like hardware synthe-
sizers or samplers, or software virtual instru-
ments) what to play.
USB and FireWire-compatible MIDI interfaces
send and receive MIDI messages to and from the
computer over USB or FireWire. Hardware
MIDI instruments are connected using MIDI ca-
bles to the MIDI inputs and outputs on your
MIDI interface. Virtual instruments are inserted
as plug-ins on Instrument tracks in Pro Tools
and accessed directly from within Pro Tools.
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plug-in.
Creating an Instrument Track
with an Instrument Plug-In
You can use either an Instrument track or a
MIDI track to record, program, and play back
MIDI sequences in Pro Tools. If you are working
with virtual instrument plug-ins (such as
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Xpand! ), you will generally want to use an In-
strument track. Instrument tracks let you both
work with MIDI sequences and monitor audio.
You can also use Instrument tracks with exter-
nal MIDI devices (like the M-Audio Venom syn-
thesizer).
To create an Instrument track and insert an
instrument plug-in:
Track > New
1 Choose
do the following:
Stereo.
• Select
• Click the pop-up menu that shows
Track Instrument Track
and select
Create.
• Click
New Track dialog, Stereo and Instrument track
selected
Window > Mix
2 If necessary, select
Mix window.
Introduction to Pro Tools Express
. In the New Track dialog,
Audio
.
to show the
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