Eleven Rack

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

20 FREaK Eleven Rack Rigs

20 "FREaK" Eleven Rack rigs/presets

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack Required!

FREaK rigs are strange rigs that just don't fit into a standard category. They can be clean or distorted. They may be used for small passages, sound beds, intros/outros, effects, ect.....

Every effect slot has been set, even if a slot is OFF by default, that effect parameter has been set.

Content List

FREaK - 001 through 020

Manual/Hard Reset - Eleven Rack

In a previous post we looked at how to do a reset of the Eleven Rack from the User Options menu. But what if your Eleven Rack is freezing at boot and you can't access the menu?

In that case, you have two options for a manual reset of the Eleven Rack by holding down certain buttons during power on.

Both of these methods will be demoed in the following video, so keep reading.

Factory Reset of the Eleven Rack

In the user options of the Eleven Rack you have the ability to "Reset Memory"

There are plenty of reason why you may want to restore your Eleven Rack to factory condition, such as for troubleshooting a problem, or simply because you just want to start fresh.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW-

When you "Reset Memory" you WILL lose all rigs in the user section. You will also be reverting all user settings you have made to the factory defaults.

You will NOT lose your currently installed firmware. When the Eleven Rack is reset, it resets to the factory settings for the currently installed firmware. So you will not lose your Eleven Rack Expansion Pack (aka Firmware 2.x)

You will be able to see all of this in the following video.

BEFORE RESETTING, BACKUP ALL RIGS!

Pro Tools 11.0.0 with the Eleven Rack - Part 1 & 2

In testing the Eleven Rack with Pro Tools 11, pretty much everything was working fine.
(watch the videos below to see this in action)

I was having a problem on my system that was not allowing me to embed rig settings in the track. After several responses, including from Avid Customer Service, it was confirmed that embedded rigs are supposed to work.

After much research I noticed that in my MIDI input devices, I had 2 Eleven Rack entries listed.

I found that un-checking the "Eleven Rack" and just leaving "2-Eleven Rack [Emulated]" checked, I was able to get embedded rigs!

Not only that, but no longer did I get the "Eleven Rack #2 Cannot Connect" error. (see video 1 to see this error)

After relaying this information, Avid Customer Service was nice enough to check PT11 and the 11R with a fresh install of Windows 8 Pro. They said that they were not getting the "2-Eleven Rack [Emulated]" entry, they only had "Eleven Rack". (see video 2 to see solution in action)

They suggested that I check in Device Manager to see if I had any drivers that could be causing emulated MIDI ports.

Pro Tools 11 RELEASED!

Yesterday, after months of waiting, Pro Tools 11 was finally released!

The bad news is that just as the preliminary info stated, the Eleven Rack on-screen editor is currently not available in Pro Tools 11. BUT, with Pro Tools 11 we can co-install 10.3.6 and use the editor in PT 10.3.6 until there is a fix for PT11.

There is a bit of good news, while the full on-screen editor is not available in PT11, the mini editor is still available in the top left of the EDIT Window.

Hopefully there will be a resolution for this soon, but until then, use PT 10.3.6 for the 11R Editor.

Get more info about Pro Tools 11 at:

www.avid.com

http://www.avid.com/products/Pro-Tools-Software

If you want to SEE Pro Tools 10.3.6 and Pro Tools 11 being installed, activated, opened, AND other Pro Tools 11 stuff - check out the Pro Tools Quick Tips blog and the YouTube Channel linked in the toolbar above.
http://protoolsquicktips.blogspot.com

Thursday, June 20, 2013

11R Driver v1.1.6 for Windows on PT LE8 and PT9

So yesterday I posted about the new 11R driver 1.1.6 and mentioned that the documentation only listed PT 10.3 and higher. So today I tested the new driver with PT LE8 and PT9. Both worked.
I don't know if the driver is officially approved for LE8 and PT9 because they are not mentioned on the 1.1.6 download page, but they worked for me.