Need some advice... Addictive drums with Dp

[donreynolds]

I am trying to bounce to disk and include my Addictive drums output.

Here is what I have tried.

I have found that there is no designated output pair for Main out, Only individual drums room, overhead and bus.

I have set up individual tracks for all drums and recorded the audio, then bounced to disk. This works and is good when I want to really get picky with the drums. I can record this way with realtime patterns or I can copy / paste and edit MIDI patterns for more detailed drum parts.

But if I want to do something quick, such as a song demo for the band to learn and just want to use the main output I am not sure how to record the main out to track. Is there a way to select the main output or do I have to use the bus? If so, how do I do this?

Main Question.... Is there a way to include the Addictive Drums main out in realtime during the bounce?

Do I record or copy / paste the MIDI pattern and somehow include this in the bounce?

I emailed the AD guys but they are not familier enough with DP to offer me any suggestions.

any help would be appreciated. I am kindo stumped here

[donreynolds]

Bump, bump

[Budmas21]

The way I do this is by copying and pasting the MIDI pattern as needed on one track and sending it to the instrument track with AD configured on it and bouncing both of them.

[James Steele]

I don't get this. I use Addictive Drums all the time and I always only have a main stereo output from it. That's why I like the approach they use with the built in mixer and all the rest of it. Assuming you have the latest version... when you attempt to add AD as an instrument track, do you see it in the menu as "XLN Audio: Addictive Drums (stereo)"?

I just created an instrument track with it and then assigned it to a stereo pair and there it was.

But I think I misunderstood you. I think XLN only provided those inputs to automatically appear in the input menu if you wanted to pull them from the main stereo mix. What I do in order to bounce AD to disk is create a stereo Aux called "AD Mix" for example. Feed it with "bus 1-2", again for example, then send the output of the instrument track "Addictive Drums-1" to "bus 1-2".

You're then monitoring AD through this AUX track which is fed by the stereo bus that AD is outputting to. When you wish to bounce to disk, you must first print AD to a stereo audio track, by creating an audio track, setting the input of it to "bus 1-2" and then record enabling the stereo track and hitting record until your drums are a stereo audio file. Then you can bounce to disk. This intermediate bouncing to a stereo track won't be necessary with DP6 fortunately.

Alternatively, if you bounce to disk in realtime, you could simply create another "master bus" and feed all your tracks including AD's buss to that and then do a realtime bounce.

Hope this helps... and it's not too convoluted. I was writing this in a hurry.

[donreynolds]

Thanks guys, I will give it a try today.
Don