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Reaktor plus Pro Tools = love. [Music.] Okay, so now you know what can be done, but how do you do it? Well, let's go through that; we use direct connect to port other applications output in to Pro Tools. And there may be slight differences and particulars in applications you may be using with direct connect. But in all cases in our system folder, in our extensions folder, we want to stay current with the latest drivers, like the Digi stream manager which is one of the essential drivers used with direct connect. So I know I have the most current stream manager in my extensions folder. Now in my DAE folder, we have direct connect documents and the direct connect plug in itself. We want to make sure that we are current on this; for instance, I wasn't aware of the latest direct connector release until I went to the native instruments website and found it in their download section. So as long as you just keep checking with Digi or the manufacturer of your gear, you will always be up-to-date. And here is the Reaktor document, just like the absent document, they must be in the plug ins folder in order to appear in Pro Tools. Okay, so with Pro Tools quit, we go to system>audio port>DAE/TDM direct connect. And like I was saying, each application there will be a slightly different ritual that you will have to perform in order to be running smoothly. And the scenario may change when one or the other application gets updated. But as of this printing, this is the correct method for Reaktor. Remember with the new NI gear, you don't need IAC Bus. We have virtual nodes, so we disable that, and we also turn midi through - off and we are done here. Now we can quit Reaktor, and you don't always have to quit Reaktor in order to get them hooked up. But this is the recommended method and probably the safest. All right, so we have all our current drivers in the right places and we have specified direct connect in Reaktor. Now, let's launch Pro Tools, and I am launching my pre-configured Reaktor session, it's the same one we started with. But I back stepped it a little bit so I could show you how we set this up. First thing you do is create an aux track and a midi track. Then just as if you were going to initiate a plug in, you choose Reaktor and you get the direct connect window. And right now the window says 'no links available'. And when you see that in your direct connect module, you'll know that you are not fully set up on one side or the other. But in this case, everything is okay, it's just that we need to re-launch Reaktor; and there is a preference setting in Reaktor where you can check, so that when you launch Reaktor, it will reopen your last used ensemble. And that's good, because we know that our hard work has been preserved, and ready for use in Pro Tools now that we are configured. Now if you want to be superstitious, you can double check and go back up to the system menu, and make sure that we are still on direct connect, which we are. So now we have both applications launched, and Reaktor's configured correctly. So now in Pro Tools, we make a couple more adjustments. Here in our direct connect window we link up and when we initiated Reaktor, a virtual mode was placed amidst our other midi outputs. And remember we're not using the IAC Bus with NI's virtual nodes, so we turn it on and we should be happening. So let's head that to Reaktor. Now we can reload one of our snapshots, and now when we hit play, we are going to be going straight into Pro Tools. And to record this, simple, we just bus the output of our aux track over to an audio track. Now that shows you the power of Reaktor; we did all that without even having to use midi. But let's check the midi out. In Reaktor, you can make your own synthesizers, but it also comes with many pre-configured sounds, so you just pick a preset. Now back in Pro Tools, we have the power of Reaktor piped in.