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Orion32773
06-09-2005, 09:26 AM
Can anyone provide a step by step midi recording session walkthrough for me? I am not very good at MIDI, but want to finally demistify something I am sure that I am making more difficult than it is. I have a BOSS DR-880 drum machine and I am running it into the m-audio SOLO interface via SPDIF. I also have been referencing a Pro-tools book I purchased and following their instructions, but I am still stuck. I am get slapback (doubled audio) when I arm the track. According to the book it tells me to turn the local off option off in my midi device. I have called Roland on this and my drum machine does not have an option for this. He told me to turn midi thru off which I tried and I get no signal at all to the armed track. I am able to record the midi to the track and I can even listen to it, but if during recording I enable the proper output for the drum machine, I get the doubling effect. The book talks about what this is, so I understand why it is happening, but so far the only workaround is to not enable the output during the recording. If this is what I need to do then I guess that will have to work, but if anyone knows the proper way then I would appreciate any help. Also, it talks about setting up an aux track for monitoring or if I am going to record it to audio then I need to route it to an audio track....I am confused on which one I need to do.

DigiTechSupt
06-10-2005, 01:57 PM
All you should need to do is mute the track you're recording to.

The problem is that you're hearing the hardware input AND the delayed recorded signal. If you mute the track during recording, you'll only hear the input and not the delayed track playback.

Orion32773
06-11-2005, 07:51 AM
When I mute the track I still hear doubling....I tried that initially, same way I record audio, but it did not work. When I record audio (Guitar, etc) this method works.