congratssss i love to hear awesome news as such, keep it coming On Jul 5, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Cara Quinn <modelc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Morning All! :) > > I have good news! > > I just got the M-Tron Pro to work with PT 10! I'm soooo psyched! :) > > To be clear, I am able to access all of the sounds. I haven't yet figured out > how / if editing is possible, but I can see all of the parameters, so we'll > see. > > I found that the dialogue which comes up in PT when you access the plugin for > the first time, which asks you to register is actually completely accessible > and worked perfectly and quickly. :) > > I then set the plugin on an instrument track which actually needs to be a > stereo track, and the window came up. Since I was unable to get sound with it > at first, and seemingly was not able to change / set a preset I was thinking > 'oh great, this isn't accessible.' However, I tried clicking on the librarian > pop-up button by routing the mouse to the VO cursor and clicking my track pad. > > Success!!! > > the menu opened and I was able to browse all the banks and set a sound! > Woohoo! :) > > Sound now came when I played the keyboard and all is now well with the world! > lol! > > -Or at least with a world which contains all manner of old, somewhat > creepy-sounding dark progressive tape-driven instruments! ;) > > Just as a couple of notes, as I mentioned above, the track you put this on > does need to be stereo as this is a multi-channel plugin. This freaked me out > at first as I couldn't find the M-Tron Pro in the plugins list. I was using a > mono track just to test though. > > As far as editing patches goes, I'll obviously keep y'all posted when I > figure this one out. I'm sure all the parameters are available via automation > so this may be just another quirk like using the physical mouse to open the > librarian. We'll see… > > Hope y'all are having a lovely day and talk with you soon! > > Smiles, > > Cara :) > On Jul 2, 2013, at 8:02 AM, Scott Chesworth <scottcheswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Cara, > > No direct experience of either, but a few thoughts that might be > useful for you. PT 10 doesn't support VST as a plugin format, you'd > need RTAS distributions of those plugs. I've used a bunch of IK > Multimedia software, haven't found anything that's accessible enough > to be properly productive with in the last few years, and have always > been pretty underwhelmed by their attitude each time I contacted them. > No experience with anything from GForce, but that's probably the > option you should investigate first. PT doesn't actually give you > hands-on interraction with a plugin's GUI as a VO user. Instead, we > get a custom interface thingy that works with whatever controls a > plugin developer has exposed to automation. We also have access to > PT's preset library function. I mention those two things because you > can often get a feel for how much of a plugin is likely to be usable > by finding out what's automatable and whether presets are stored in > each DAWs library or whether they have to be accessed via a swanky > third party preset browser. There are a few exceptions to the rule as > ever, stuff that in theory should work and doesn't, but it's been a > reasonable rule of thumb in my experience. > > Hth, keep us posted > > Scott > > On 7/2/13, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> has anyone used either of these two VSTs with PT 10 under Lion? >> >> For anyone interested whom may not already know, they are two different >> emulations of Mellotron and other tape-based instruments. >> >> GForce makes M-Tron and M-tron Pro and IK Multimedia makes SampleTron. >> >> Just wondering if anyone has had experience with any of these?… >> >> Thanks! >> >> Cara :) >> --- >> View my Online Portfolio at: >> >> http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn >> >> Follow me on Twitter! >> >> https://twitter.com/ModelCara >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. 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