How to Route Battery 4 Cells to Individual Outputs in Pro Tools

This article explains how to route Battery 4 Cells to separate audio tracks in Pro Tools.

In certain scenarios, you may wish to route your samples from Battery 4 to separate tracks in your host software. This allows you to apply different send and insert effects or use your host's volume and panorama controls for each drum sound individually.

Battery 4 Setup

  1. Load Battery 4 as a plug-in in Pro Tools.
  2. After loading a Battery Kit, select and right-click the Cell you wish to be sent to a separate audio output. A drop-down menu will appear.
  3. Scroll down to Output and choose Direct Out, to route the audio to an individual channel.

    Note: By default, all Cells are routed to the Master channel (St 1/2).

Pro Tools Setup

  1. Open the Mix Board view in Pro Tools.
  2. Create some new audio tracks. Assign the input of each audio track to a separate Battery output channel in ascending order. For example, if a Cell has been routed to Battery output St.3/4, choose input St 3/4 in the respective Pro Tools audio track.
    Pro_Tools_Mixer_Routing.png

    Note: Make sure to record-enable each audio track so that Pro Tools can receive audio from the Battery Cells.

Now the Battery Cell's audio will be routed through its assigned audio track in Pro Tools.