I recently purchased alot of studio hardware and was wondering how to set up the equipment efficiently. The equipment I have is as follows. I have a Korg Triton, Access Virus C for synths and the korg works as a controller and occasionally as a sampler. I have a focusrite compounder for compression and dynamics. I am hooking this equipment up to a Digi 002 mixing board which is connected to my computer which is running protools le. I am wondering what is the best way to interconnect all this equipment so that it is easy to use and control midi. I am unfamiliar with midi control since i usually sequence music using audio. I have been hearing around that midi sequenceing is far easy and more proficient than audio sequencing. I would like to be able to use midi channels in protools and construct the melodies and arppegiations in protools and use the sounds and effects coming from the synths and compresser. Any help and/or tips will be appreciated. Thanks.

anyone?

Basicly , if you have more than 2-3 synths you will need a midi patchbay to get a good timing on everything. I have the emagic amt 8 which gives splendid timing using it with logic audio. I don't know protools so I dunno how it works but I thought it was for mainly for audio editing etc.. ? Maybe you will have to look for a midi sequencer like cubase, logic, sonar in combination with a midi patchbay...

Well first of all, you need a midi interface on the computer somewhere. I take it you have one of these already. If not, you will need something with at least 2 in and 2 out. You hook up the triton and virus to this.

Is the mixer you have a digital mixer or a control surface? If its a control surface, you hook up the virus and the triton to another mixer, or you could go straight into your sound card if you have 4 ins on your sound card.
If the mixer is a digital mixer, then run the virus and triton into this, then the master out of the mixer into the sound card in on your computer. The compressor unit (i assume its all one unit, not three), I think!, should be connected between the master out of the mixer and the audio in on the sound card, as a compressor is an insert and not a send, or if you have sub/bus channel on the mixer, rout all audio to sub one, then have the compressor connected to sub 1 out and into another channel with is then routed back to the master out. (just an option).

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