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    I'm scratching my noggin' on this one.  In the process of composing a cello section of dimension strings, using ensemble pro, everything bussed to master buss, using output 1&2 to send to ProTools.  Everything how I like it (pan, level etc)  decide to record..... create new audio tracks in PT.  Reassign ensemble pro tracks to consecutive outputs.  What is recorded is decidedly different from what I have been monitoring during composition, pan, level, delay.

    Is this normal behaior in ensemble pro?  as in, has the utilization of different outputs affected the signal processing.  fyi no plug ins installed on master buss in ensemble pro.

    Obviously the work around is to simply record using the same output as was being utilized during monitoring of the composition stage.... but I'm asking out of curiosity to see if I'm overlooking some simple selection, or if perhaps some part of my ensemble pro installation has been corrupted.

    Thanks
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    It should be the same. I would say that you have a routing issue, probably in Pro Tools.

    The solution is to set up PT with the audio tracks to start with, route everything the way it's going to be for bounce down, and monitor through the audio tracks.

    Or just fix your routing. [;)]

    DG
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    Thanks for the quick reply.

    My expectation would be for the output of a track in ensemble pro to be the same regardless of the output bus selected.  

    In my particular scenario the only thing different would be that there is a master bus utilizing output 1&2 instantiated in the ensemble pro mix window, so that if I then select output 3&4 for a particular track and input directly to an audio track in PT's input, the ensemble pro master track should be bypassed.

    If on the audio track in PT I've selected the corresponding output bus from ensemble pro, I'm not sure where the routing in PT comes into play.  Perhaps on playback as it comes out of the audio track....but what I'm seeing/hearing appears to be that what is recorded to the audio track is different than what is happening in the ensemble pro.  

    For example, I've got some of the cello voices panned hard right on one particular track (left limit at 12 oclock right limit at 3 o'clock).   When I solo the track in ensemble pro thats what I hear and what the meters reflect.

    If I then change the output to bus 3&4 and select those ensemble outputs as the audio input source on an audio track in PT and record, what is recorded is panned 9 o'clock and 3o'clock.

    So my first thought was that there was a setting in ensemble (that I can't find) that has the outputs happening pre-fader.  If so.. where is that?  

    Writing this out may have been a good thing... I'll go back and see if I can instantiate a seperate track like an aux in ensemble and route the instrument track to and then port it out to PT through that.  Maybe that'll settle the pre/post question.