melodies

so i scanned the manual on how to midi a up a keyboard to the mpc so i can play melodies using the samples, and all it says was go keyboard midi out to the mpc midi in and keyboard midi in into the mpc midi out, i did this and nuthin happens im sure theres sumthin else u gotta do , i selected the active track to recieve all chanells and i selected soft thru as track, even tho i have no idea what the hell those mean i followed the directions in the book and still cant figure it out, i basically want to add some keys to my beats you know,can anyone gimmie sum direct directions, i got a yamaha psr 292 and mpc 1000,thanks

you got the midi cables right.

Soft thru repeats the midi on the MPC's in to the MPC's out. most midi gear have a dedicated "thru" port...but with midi routers, they are become scarce on alot of recent gear, hence the "soft thru".

next, do you have audio connected from both to a mixer, etc?

Last, you got a program loaded with samples assigned?

are you guys talking about using a midi controller to make melodies using samples from the mpc? or using a keyboard/synth and just recording?

no im not using any type of mixer between the mpc and the keyboard i just hooked up the cables in to out,out to in , and yeah im jus pretty much tryinmg to trigger samples that have loaded in the mpc with the keyboard

Check this post out, you have some misconceptions about what MIDI can do.

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php ... ht=newbies