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By kid collect Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:01 pm
Hi I've not been on here for a while so hello people. I need a little bit of help if possibe ?

I'm try to set my MPC as a slave midi device controlled from my PC running Nuendo via a USB port I got as far as being able to get it so if I press play in nuendo the MPC plays but when I press stop on the computer it doesn't stop ! Can anyone give me some advice on setting this up properly ?

By djames Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:49 am
Are you set at 25 or 30 fps on your MPC and program?
By kid collect Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:32 am
Sorry I should have made myself clearer, I'm not having a major problem with the getting nuendo to trigger the MPC I'm using midi clock on the sync in Is MTC better ? why ?

my real problem is a midi one I guess what I would like to do is have nuendo setup so it trigger the mpc to play back data from the computer
eg kick and snare
whilst I play a hihat line live over the top from the pads on the MPC
so the MPC is playing midi from nuendo and sending midi (the pads i'm playing) which i want to record into another track in nuendo

Have you done this ? Is it possible

I think i'm getting there if it is

I can trigger the mpc from nuendo
I can record midi into to track one on nuendo from the mpc
But when I go to playback track one and add track two
the mpc is looping the playback midi (track one) in to track two
Thus in track to I get all the track one data and the new data i've played in


How do i set up the MPC to nuendo so I can record a second track whilst playing back the first.
How are the midi inputs and outputs set up on nuendo and on the
S:DRUM:1A-Device01 part of the mpc ?

Sorry if this make little sense I'm very confused let me know what you think and I hopefully can explain better !! :oops: :cry:

By djames Wed Jan 21, 2004 7:32 am
Oh, I really don't know. I just save my MPC sequence as MIDI and open it in Nuendo. Then I record each MIDI track as Audio. Sorry I don't think I can be of much help, good luck tho. Let me know if you find out.
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By BRAVO Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:41 pm
djames wrote:Oh, I really don't know. I just save my MPC sequence as MIDI and open it in Nuendo. Then I record each MIDI track as Audio. Sorry I don't think I can be of much help, good luck tho. Let me know if you find out.


Just interested to know why u do that....Dont u loose the initial MPC groove/structure/feel when u do that?

Why not just bounce the tracks (Surely thats quicker to and u loose the feel)

By djames Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:29 am
BRAVO wrote:Just interested to know why u do that....Dont u loose the initial MPC groove/structure/feel when u do that?

Why not just bounce the tracks (Surely thats quicker to and u loose the feel)


The reason I was doing that was to get the whole sequence into the computer, but I just copped a 8in 8out digital interface with optical in and out that should allow me to multitrack. I'll keep you posted.
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By BB SOUND Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:35 am
hey kid collect
lets try to do this again. ask your qestion again. because you mentioned VIA usb? tell us what kind of MPC you are uesing. second, be more specific about the tracks in question.

are you uesing vst instruments?

I ask all this because I have nuendo 2.1.1.25 together with the mophatt and vst instruments all synced up (took me almost 1 month to figuer it out)
to nuendo and all works like a dream. I must say its not easy to set it up because there are settings in nuendo that must be set correctly for this to work and settings in the mpc that must corrispond to the channels in nuendo. Oh ome more thing, what audio interface are you useing to connect the mpc to nuendo?

let me try to answer one of your questions.
if you need the MPC to be a slave to nuendo ,do this

1 take the midi out of your sound card to midi in( 1 ) on the mpc......
connect the left right or(left mono) out put to the input of you sound card.
2 now go to nuendo 2 and look for the tab called transport(open it)
3 go down the list of the transport tab and find "sync setup".
4 once you are in sync setup look for "send midi clock" and choose your sound card in the box below.

5 click ok
6 now,on the mpc press shift (9)
7 where it says sync in (make sure it set to channel 1) and below that set the mode to "midi clock" dont touch the sync out section of this screen.
8 now set up the mpc for what ever bars you want and load up your sounds into the mpc and create a 4 or 8 bar sequence on the mpc.
9 now go back to nuendo and look at the transport bar(thats the floating bar that never goes away with play,stop ,etc :)and look to the right of the record button . it will say sync.. make sure it says sync INT.
10 now create a track in nuendo(mono or stereo) arm the track(the red button must be lit and the little orange speaker type button must also be lit.
11 press record on nuendo and you will hear the normal 8 click metronome then the mpc will start to play and nuendo will record what the mpc is playing on the track you created.

this works for me because i do it all the time and it took me a long time to figuer it out. this is just the set up to slave the mpc to nuendo.
you really have to know your system well to inorder to know how to configuer it well and I will help because I know how frustrating it is when all this crappy connections get in the way of the music making.

if im missing something step in anyone
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By BB SOUND Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:47 am
if you need to know how to get each vst instrument on its onw track and for it to play seperatly let me know. I have figuerd it out with the help of countless nights of surring the net and reading and the manual to nuendo or the mpc will not show you how to do it.
By jd Thu Jan 22, 2004 2:13 pm
seems to me you have a problem i just solved. I don't know if my solution will work for you but i did for me. what i do is on nuendo i put it on grid mode and i find a good starting point for my tracks not at zero i use like 5 or 10 where ever the grid lines up (close to the begining ) . then i solo the track i want to dump press record on nuendo and there we go . on your next rack you have to make sure the mpc is at the begining of it's pattern. and repeat the first step till your finished I don't know if it's the right way to do it but it worked for me and all my tracks are on time . you just have to remember to bring both machines to their start point before pressing record. 8)