I am a MIDI retard

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I have never attempted to use a controller to use a VST plug-in until a few days ago. I am trying to add some piano to a track. The keyboard I have is a fairly crappy casio. But I have a good sounding piano VST. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to set it all up. Here's what I have for a set-up:

Casio keyboard-->MIDI out to MOTU 828mkii's MIDI in

I use the program Tracktion. In this program, I normally drag analog inputs to the channel I want to record and I'm all set. But there is not a MIDI input recognized. I have tried reinstalling the drivers.

Is there some simple thing I am forgetting to do? I don't need to send a MIDI cable back from the MOTU to the keyboard do I?

After a while of trying, I gave up and just recorded an audio file of the crappy onboard piano sound. I don't want to write in the whole piano part with the piano roll cause it would take a really long time.
 
Have you removed the little 'circle with slash' from the controller you are trying to use by clicking on it so that it turns into a red 'R'? When I first used T2 I ran afoul of that one too...

Maybe I've given you these links before, but here are two good articles on midi basics - part one and part two.
 
I am actually still using T1. Thanks a lot for the articles though.
 
greetings fellow midi retard

pdadda said:
I have never attempted to use a controller to use a VST plug-in until a few days ago. I am trying to add some piano to a track. The keyboard I have is a fairly crappy casio. But I have a good sounding piano VST. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to set it all up. Here's what I have for a set-up:

Casio keyboard-->MIDI out to MOTU 828mkii's MIDI in

I use the program Tracktion. In this program, I normally drag analog inputs to the channel I want to record and I'm all set. But there is not a MIDI input recognized. I have tried reinstalling the drivers.

Is there some simple thing I am forgetting to do? I don't need to send a MIDI cable back from the MOTU to the keyboard do I?

After a while of trying, I gave up and just recorded an audio file of the crappy onboard piano sound. I don't want to write in the whole piano part with the piano roll cause it would take a really long time.
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I too am a midi retard........maybe just a retard. I plan to read those articles and your post again to see what y'all are talkin about.

when I use my JV1010 and my cheezmo kawaii synth, I just play real time. drums/bass/keys whatever........

not because i'm such a great player. but I'm a midi retard who probably makes you look like a midi guru :)

I'm still trying to figure out which software is the most idiot proof/sounds good/is heavy on digital audio/not so big on midi...and will run on an amd athlon xp 1.15 with an 80 gig 5400 rpm maxtor with 2meg cache.

dinosaur entrails.........I know. but, that's what I have. I like the old old original version of CEP1.2

is there a problem using that other than no more support from the swines since they sold out to adobe?
 
billy3000 said:
I'm still trying to figure out which software is the most idiot proof/sounds good/is heavy on digital audio/not so big on midi...and will run on an amd athlon xp 1.15 with an 80 gig 5400 rpm maxtor with 2meg cache.
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Try Tracktion. I use it and it fits your description perfectly. If you want to download a working demo, go here.
 
ha midiot... how whitty

it's because traction sucks... just kidding.

have you set up your midi controllers? i use sonar, but when i add a new new midi controller i have to go into preferences and select a midi device. maybe traction has something similar. have read all of the relavent help files in traction?
 
pdadda said:
But there is not a MIDI input recognized.
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This is the crux of your problem. You need to get Tracktion (or any other software) to recognize the midi inputs before you can do any midi recording.

How do you have the MOTU connected to your computer? It's a firewire device and normal firewire conventions apply. Have you tried powering down the computer, taking the firewire cable out, powering down the MOTU and waiting 5 to 7 minutes before you connect it all and try again?

Also, you need to power up (turn on) the MOTU first before turning on the computer so the computer can detect it.

Try these and post again if you're still having trouble.
 
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