Logic 9 & MIDI help

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I'm trying to figure out how to use MIDI and I've run into an issue already.
I've hooked up a Yamaha keyboard to a MOTU 828 MKIII via MIDI cable (keyboard out to MOTU in) and recorded a track. It's recording the MIDI, but I cannot hear anything when I play it back (or in headphones as I record, for that matter). The volume is up and the meter is showing audio though...am I missing something or do I have to convert it somehow?

Mallen:confused:
 
mallen said:
I'm trying to figure out how to use MIDI and I've run into an issue already.
I've hooked up a Yamaha keyboard to a MOTU 828 MKIII via MIDI cable (keyboard out to MOTU in) and recorded a track. It's recording the MIDI, but I cannot hear anything when I play it back (or in headphones as I record, for that matter). The volume is up and the meter is showing audio though...am I missing something or do I have to convert it somehow?

Mallen:confused:
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The midi cable is simply transmitting instructions (which note to lay and when to play it). In Logic you record these instructions by recording a midi track, which I assume you've done.

Now you need to be able to hear it . . . so you need to play it back through something that will understand those instructions, either the computer's wavetable, a vsti, an external unit, or back through your yamaha.

To play back through your Yamaha, you need to select the Motu as an output device for that midi track and connect it to the yamaha with a midi cable. If the yamaha has speakers, you should hear it playing back what you've recorded.
 
gecko zzed said:
The midi cable is simply transmitting instructions (which note to lay and when to play it). In Logic you record these instructions by recording a midi track, which I assume you've done.

Now you need to be able to hear it . . . so you need to play it back through something that will understand those instructions, either the computer's wavetable, a vsti, an external unit, or back through your yamaha.

To play back through your Yamaha, you need to select the Motu as an output device for that midi track and connect it to the yamaha with a midi cable. If the yamaha has speakers, you should hear it playing back what you've recorded.
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Can I get a sticky please? This comes up at least 3 times a week
 
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