Can't hear MIDI recording.

[theschaef]

Hi I am recording on a macbook using logic pro and i am trying to record midi keyboard, which is something i have never played with before. I am using a yamaha keyboard that connects directly to the computer through a USB cable. I can record the midi file just fine and it appears in logic but when i try to play it back all it does is play the notes on the keyboard. If i remove the USB it just goes through the recording and makes no noise. How can i get it so that i can get the MIDI to play sound on the actual recording? I am completely new at this MIDI stuff.

 

[JMarcomb]

im assuming you want the sounds that are on the keyboard to be captured

your going to have to setup an audio channel and capture the actual audio output of your keyboard while you play back the midi information

 

[whjr15]

Yeah, what he said.

You're not hearing anything because MIDI isn't audio.

 

[mattamatta]

To expand upon that a little bit, what you've recorded is just information as to what notes are played, and when they start/stop. This information goes to some sort of sound generating device that does some sort of music-making using this data, which is what's happening when your keyboard plays the notes. The midi information goes back into the keyboard, which generates the sound. So if you want the sound from the keyboard, you'll have to record it with an audio signal, as was said. Alternatively, you can use some sort of softsynth plugin to play those midi notes in software in whatever manner that particular softsynth does, for which you will have to change some settings in the software - probably something along the lines of an output for the midi track... I'm not versed in logic, but in Cubase, when I have a vst instrument running, I Can set a midi track's output to that instrument (or whatever else is available) on a dropdown box.

 

[gecko zzed]

What Mattamatta said.

1 When you play the keyboard, information about note length, pitch, etc. is transmitted to and recorded by Logic through the USB cable.

2 When you hit play in Logic, Logic sends this information back to the keyboard.

3 If you want to record the keyboard's actual audio, you need to connect the keyboard, via its audio output, to the computer through some sort of interface, and record this in Logic.

4 However, within Logic, you can get the recorded played on some other device. For example, somewhere in the Logic Arrange screen you can tell Logic where to send the Midi to. At the moment it is mostlikely defaulting to the device you have connected. You could, for example, select the computer's internal sound generator (e.g. MS Wavetable or similar).

5 Having done this, you would then still need to capture the audio somehow. I am familiar with early versions of Logic that allowed you to do this via SPDIF, but I am not sure how the more recent versions work.

 

[theschaef]

hey guys.. i figured it out this morning. So i'll explain just incase anyone else runs into the same problem on logic. I was creating an "external MIDI" track and that was replaying what i did on the external MIDI device. What i needed to do was create a "software instrument" track.. and then just set the instrument to grand piano or whatever sound you need. And then it works just fine. Thanks for the help.