Confused as hell

[Keith_H]

I have an Alesis DM5 and an Akai S-20 sampler I want to trigger from pads connected to the DM5..I know(??) this is possible and I know(??) it requires using MIDI but I'm lost...I just found a link under the "I hate MIDI" thread that I'm going to check out...I have a MIDI cable going from the MIDI OUT of the DM5 to the MIDI IN of the S-20. I thought I set all the parameters right but I Guess not...Is there anything obvious I'm not doing?

 

[shem]

isnt it ironic that you could find somethin' good from my negativity?

 

[drstawl]

I think everybody has been to "I hate MIDI land" at one point or another but the fact remains that this is a very cool protocol. A lot of information transmitted over a very shabby line. Right now it seems to me a very low priority to synchonize data paths (protocols) with audio and video data paths. If it ain't broke: don't fix it!!!!

Oh yeah. I feel your pain over the communication failure.