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Hi;
Inside the new Power Track Pro Audio 2011 I can not find any drum patterns. Under the subfolder Drum there are a bunch of files with the extention .wav, .wma, .txt, but no file with the extention .dp.
Where can I find those .dp files? and what are those wav, wma, txt files for?
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Andrea
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The drum pattern files are located in a folder called MIDIDrums, found in the PTPA folder. The WMA, etc files are from the small set of RealDrums that ships with PowerTracks. Like with RealBand, you can use RealDrums in PowerTracks; you just can't user RealTracks (the non-drum instruments).
To create a drum pattern in PTPA, you would select the command "Edit, Fill Track with MIDI Drum Pattern". From there, you can select the kind of drum pattern you would like. You can also specify which bars to fill.
To create a track with RealDrums, you would select "Edit, Fill Track with RealDrums (Audio)". You have to make sure that it is pointing to the DRUMS folder and then you can select which RealDrum you want to use, as well as the range of bars (or the whole song).
Hope that helped.
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Thank you for your help. If you don't mind here is anothr question:
When I clik on "Re-Route Midi playback to default Dxi/VSTi Synth" the volume or the velocity of all midi tracks goes down to 50% but not the audio tracks, therefore I am not able to convert a song to a wave file becouse you can hardly hear the midi tracks.
There is a way to avoid this inconvenient?
Volume trim is set to zero.
If I unchecked the Re-Route ..... all the tracks are ok but I am not able to create a wave file.
Thank you in advance
Andrea
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Thank you for your help. If you don't mind here is anothr question:
When I clik on "Re-Route Midi playback to default Dxi/VSTi Synth" the volume or the velocity of all midi tracks goes down to 50% but not the audio tracks, therefore I am not able to convert a song to a wave file becouse you can hardly hear the midi tracks.
There is a way to avoid this inconvenient?
Volume trim is set to zero.
If I unchecked the Re-Route ..... all the tracks are ok but I am not able to create a wave file.
Thank you in advance
Andrea
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You probably need to go into your DXi synth and set the volume controls there. Also, i would recommend going adding the PGDynamics and PGPeakLimit effects on the DXi selection screen. that should help push your volume back up. See below for an example. Yours will be different depending upon which synth you are using. you get to this screen by clicking on the DXi/VSTi Synths button. 
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Good thinking John
I'd try just the PGPeakLimit first. Less drain on system (very small with this particular plugin) and less chance of coloring the sound with unintended compression (via pgdynamics).
I have used this trick to boost a MIDI click track many times.
.. and audio clicks too, come to think of it. It is great little plugin from PGMusic that boosts output on any synth or track (or all of them).
Very simple to use; itis what is known as a Brickwall Limiter. You leave the right slider alone, which means the output will be about a hald dB at maximum output. Then you adjust the left slider to make the VU meter inside the plugin get up close to zero. If it is hitting zero it will start limiting to keep it just below, and this can cause the dreading 'pumping' effect. Use your ears and boost it just enough.
The PGDynamic plugin does the same thing; compresses sound, but it has a LOT more to deal with in the way of parameters. Things could start getting compresses way below the zero level very easily. The PGPeakLimit plugin does what you need with very little effort or system resources.
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Nice idea Bob, but I can't get this to work for MIDI tracks.
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I open the mixer window and all the volume are up but no difference. I did not have this problem with Power Track 10.
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Which DXi synth are you using and what synth are you using when DXi is unchecked?
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If you go to a MIDI track and click the little arrow beside the track number, what is listed as the synth in the top box?
Then in the next box, if you use the arrow on the right to drop it down, do you see the PGPlugins like PGDynamics or PGPeaklimit? If so, select it. If not, then you did not install the PGPlugins during installation. There is a separate PGPlugins intaller on whatever media you recieved the product on. You'll have to install them. The only other reason you wouldn't see them is because you are not using a DXi plugin, which is what John is trying to clear up also.
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