Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By Birdie Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:50 pm
Hello,

could You help me please? I know it was posted at least million times, but I searched thru, I've tried some techniques, but it still doesn't work.

I have MPC 2000 XL and Yamaha MO6 synthesizer and I would like to trigger keyboard sounds with MPC pads. So it goes MIDI out from my keyboard to MPC's MIDI in. I know I have to change Drum to MIDI, I've done that. This is settings from both machines:

MO6:
Channels
BasicRcvCh: 1
KBDTransCh: 1
DeviceNo.: all

Switch
BankSel: on
PgmChange: on
CtrlChange: Mode1
LocalCtrl: on
RcvBulk: on

Sync
Midi Sync: MIDI
ClockOut: on
SeqCtrl: in/out
MTC StartOffset: 00:00:00:00

MIDI IN/OUT: MIDI
ThruPort: 8
Bulk Interval: 0ms


2000 XL:
MIDI/Sync
Sync In: 1
Mode: Midi Clock
Shift early (ms): 0
Receive MMC: on


I haven't set up Sync Out on MPC, because I only want to trigger keyboard sounds. Sure MPC out goes to mixer channel 1 and Keyboard goes to channel 2.

THANKS A MILLION PROS!
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By nogginj Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:02 pm
you've just got it backwards. you need:
mpc midi out -> keyboard midi in

if you have two midi cables, do:
keyboard midi out -> mpc midi in
mpc midi out -> keyboard midi in

right now you are just playing/recording midi data into the sequencer, but then it has to get back out to the sound module.

also this has nothing to do with 'sync' so I wouldn't mess with that.