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Working with virtual instruments

Working with virtual instruments - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Working with virtual instruments

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- [Teacher] Pro Tools comes with a variety of great-sounding virtual instruments that you can use with the MIDI in your sessions. Working with MIDI gives you lots of flexibility to make changes. However, at times, you'll want to convert your virtual instrument output to audio to save on processing resources. Let's take a quick look at some of your options. Virtual instruments run as real-time inserts on tracks in Pro Tools, and they're commonly placed on aux input tracks or instrument tracks. Here, I've got the Expand 2 plugin on the MIDI drums track using a drum preset. (drum music) This plugin has a variety of drum presets I can use, (drum music) along with a host of other sound options. (funky music) Now, Pro Tools includes other virtual instruments that you can explore, including Boom, which is a drum machine style plugin with a built-in pattern sequencer. (drum music) Now, if you're not seeing Boom on your system, it may mean that you still need to run the installer for the Air…

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