mg70 wrote:To a midi track within the protools session. So if I have a bass drum in track 1 of MPC, snare in track 2. high hat in 3 and so on. I am thinking that if I had a session open I could import those files into seperate midi tracks(1, 2, and 3 in protools) OR I could open a session and save a beat I may have been working and Import that file or files into seperate midi tracks within protools.
In the MPC, the MIDI note on/off data is sent from the MPC sequencer to the internal MPC sampler, and the MIDI data triggers sounds in the internal MPC sampler, which plays back those samples as audio.
Or, the MIDI data is sent from the MPC sequencer to external MPC MIDI ports, which are connected to external MIDI sound sources (modules/keyboards/etc.), and the MIDI data triggers sounds in those external MIDI sound sources, which plays back audio from those external MIDI sound sources.
A MIDI track in Pro Tools allows you to record MIDI note on/off data into those Pro Tools MIDI tracks, but there is no MIDI sound source in those Pro Tools MIDI tracks, you have to send that MIDI data to some sort of internal Pro Tools or computer internal MIDI sound source, or to external MIDI sound sources, so that there is something for the MIDI data to trigger that will play the MIDI notes as audio.
You have to work out what the MIDI note on/off data is going to do once you have recorded it or transferred it into Pro Tools, putting it onto Pro Tools MIDI tracks is not going to do anything, without sending it to some sort of MIDI sound source that plays back the MIDI data as audio.
This might be sending that MIDI data back into the MPC, to trigger the same MPC internal samples as that MIDI data plays when it is inside the MPC sequencer, or you might setup a software sampler within Pro Tools, or on the computer and outside of Pro Tools, with all the same samples that are being used in the MPC sample engine assigned to the same MIDI note numbers inside the software sampler as they are inside the MPC.
If the MIDI data inside the MPC is triggering sound playback from external MIDI sound sources that are connected to the MPC MIDI ports, then you have to work out how to get that same MIDI data out of Pro Tools and into those external MIDI sound sources from the computer MIDI ports.
It can be done, just not as straight forward as you may think it is.
Most MPC users record the audio outputs of the MPC into the computer, rather than the MIDI sequence as MIDI, due to the hassles of setting up the computer sequencer to work with that MIDI in the same as the MPC sequencer does.
