Recording Audio from an Instrument Plug-In

To record audio from an instrument plug-in:

1 Create a new Instrument track.

2 Insert an instrument plug-in on that track.

3 Do one of the following:

Record your MIDI performance on the Instrument track.

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Manually enter MIDI data in the Instrument track.

You can also record the MIDI and audio from your performance at the same time.

4 Create a new audio track with the same number of channels as the Instrument track (such as stereo).

5 Set the Instrument track’s Audio Output Path selector to a bus (for example, Bus 1–2).

6 Set the audio track’s Audio Input Path selector to the same bus.

7 Set the audio track’s Audio Output Path selector to the main monitoring path).

8 Record enable the audio track.

9 Do one of the following:

To record from the beginning of the session, click Return To Zero in the Transport.

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Make a Timeline selection for the record range.

10 Click Record in the Transport to arm Pro Tools for recording.

11 Click Play in the Transport to start recording.

12 When your previously recorded MIDI performance is finished playing, click Stop in the Transport to stop recording.