User`s guide

Pro Tools Reference Guide112
Recording System
Exclusive Data
Pro Tools supports recording and playing
System Exclusive data (sysex) with MIDI
tracks. This allows you to use MIDI tracks
in Pro Tools to store patch and configura-
tion data for your MIDI devices, or to
record real-time sysex changes for a partic-
ular synth parameter (filter cutoff, for in-
stance).
To record a sysex dump at the beginning of a
MIDI track:
1 Make sure that the MIDI OUT for the de-
vice sending the sysex is connected to your
MIDI interface’s MIDI IN.
2 Put Pro Tools in normal Nondestructive
Record mode. In the Operations menu, de-
select Destructive Record, Loop Record,
and QuickPunch.
3 In the MIDI Input Filter, enable record-
ing of System Exclusive data.
1 Choose File > New Track and specify 1
MIDI Track, then click Create.
2 Record enable the new MIDI track by
clicking its Record button.
3 Enable Wait for Note in the Transport
window.
4 In the Transport window, click Return to
Zero so the start/end times are cleared. This
ensures that you’ll start recording from the
beginning of the track.
5 When you are ready to begin recording,
click Record in the Transport window.
The Record, Play, and Wait for Note but-
tons flash, indicating that Pro Tools is wait-
ing for MIDI data.
6 Initiate the sysex transfer from the MIDI
device. When receiving the MIDI data,
Pro Tools automatically begins recording.
7 When the transfer is complete, click Stop
in the Transport window.
The newly recorded MIDI data appears as a
MIDI region in the track’s playlist, and in
the MIDI Regions List. MIDI regions that
contain System Exclusive data appear
blank when the track’s Display Format is
set to Regions.
To see the sysex event blocks, which indi-
cate the location of the data, set the track
to display Sys Ex. For details on moving
and copying of sysex data, see “System Ex-
clusive Events” on page 211.
To resend the sysex from Pro Tools:
1 For the device receiving the System Ex-
clusive data, make sure its MIDI IN is con-
nected to your MIDI interface’s MIDI OUT.
Also, make sure the device is set to receive
sysex. Some devices require that memory
protect be off.
2 For the previously recorded track, click
its Record button to take it out of record-
enabled mode.
3 In the Mix window, click on the track’s
MIDI Device/Channel Selector and assign
the device from the pop-up menu.
4 In the Transport window, click Return to
Zero.
5 Click Play in the Transport window to be-
gin playback. Pro Tools begins playing and
transmits the previously recorded sysex to
the assigned MIDI device.