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i am using cakewalk and i am new to the game im running midi through a rt123 drum machine i tried to record a drum track then i tried to play it back it didnt play back mackie doesnt give a diagram on how to hook up midi i have a mackie 1202 vlz pro and studio monitors am i doing something wrong was just testing to see if all works and what should i put as my midi port on the progam
 
First you should find out if your midi device is being acknowledge by the computer. you can find out by going to settings - then control panel - then select multimedia - select midi. If you are using a single midi interface it should show up under single instrument. If nothing is showing then you need to add new instrument and install your midi driver. Next go in Cakewalk. select settings then select midi devices (I don't know what version of Cakewalk you are using but I use 5.0 Pro) On the left you should see your midi device in the Input ports box. you need to highlight the midi device. Do the same for the output ports on the right side then select OK. Next select settings again - then select assign instruments. On the right side select general midi and on the left select all sixteen channels of the midi device use the control key. (You can actually find your instrument in the assign instruments which will show you each sound that you select. I would suggest calling Cakewalk or asking someone in the forum about how to do this.) Finally make sure your instrument is set to send and receive midi. I'm not familiar with your instrument but I'm sure someone in the forum can help.
Good luck.
 
in settings is that computer or through cakewalk and im using homestudio 9
 
i checked computer it says sblive midi snyth the audio says sblive wave in sblive wave out i reitried it configured some stuff on cakewalk and still cant get it to record
 
obg,

In your other post (titled grrrr) you said the drum machine has only a MIDI in. If you're expecting to record the MIDI data from the machine, well of course you cannot if there is no port for it to come out of and into the computer. If it has only MIDI in, it can only respond to incoming MIDI messages.

Re the comment about the Mackie not having a diagram for MIDI connection... maybe you are confused about what MIDI cables carry? There is no audio there. MIDI is a set of messages about the music -- no music itself. For example, it tells a synthesizer which note to play, for how long and with what velocity. Recording MIDI messages with a sequencer like Cakewalk is kind of like creating a player piano roll -- you record which notes are played when, but the sequence has no actual audio data stored in it. The only reason the Mackie might have a MIDI interface would be for MIDI Machine Control, which there might be on the top-of-the-line models but probably none of the sub-$1000 one.

-AlChuck
 
ok so how do i know i recorded the drum tracks and how do i set up the drum machine to record onto cakewalk it says i canr ecord midi but i have to set the midi in the program how do i do that and how do i set it up in my computer to recieve the midi from the drum machine or do i have to go through the mackie to do that i have figured out that i can hook up the board through the sound port on sblive card help i stupid and cant record
 
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