How to use the Unity DS1 RTAZ plugin with ProTools

The Unity DS-1 RTAZ plugin is available with Unity version 2.1.3 (or higher). If you do not have this version of Unity, you can download it at www.bitheadz.com.

1. Once you have downloaded the update, double-click the installer to update Unity. Be sure to select the original Unity DS1 folder to install the new version into.
2. Verify that OMS automatically detects the Unity DS-1 driver.
3. Quit all applications, and open the Unity DS-1 folder
4. Inside the Unity DS-1 folder, locate and open “Unity DS-1 Utilities”. Within this folder, locate and open the “ProTools” folder.
5. Move the “Unity DS-1 RTAZ” plugin to your desktop, and close other folders.
6. Inside the Macintosh HD, locate and open the System Folder, then locate and open the DAE Folder.
7. Inside the DAE find the Plug-ins folder. Drop the Unity DS-1 RTAZ plugin from the desktop into this Plug-ins folder. Close all open folders.
8. From the apple menu, choose the Control Panels sub menu, and select Unity DS-1.
9. In the Unity control panel, set “Default MIDI Input” to “OMS”. Set “Audio i/o” to “Plug-in”.
Close the control panel, and click YES to save changes.
10. Launch ProTools (open a session or create a new session).
11. From the File menu, choose New Track and create a MIDI track. Repeat the step, the second time creating an “Aux Input”.
12. Assign the MIDI track’s output to Unity DS1 and select a channel (1-16), then record enable the midi track.
13. Set the Aux track’s input to any input, and it’s output to your main outs.
14. From the Aux Track’s insert list, choose Plugin >>> Unity DS-1. Use the Unity Plug-in tp choose a bank and a sound.

Audio from unity is routed through the Aux track out your ProTools hardware.

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