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By darvis Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:14 am
:roll: CAN SOMEONE WITH A LITTLE COMMON SENSE SHOW THE PEOPLE IN THE FORUM HOW TO CONNECT MIDI CABLES AND ALL TO THE MPC AND GET THE SOUNDS TO SYNC TOGETHER. SHOW SOME KIND OF VIDEO ON HOW TO STEP BY STEP CONNECT MIDI IN TO MIDI OUT TO MIXING BOARD OR WHATEVER. PLEASE DON'T SHOW HOW TO SYNC REASON TO THE MPC SHOW HOW TO CONNECT THE BACK CABLES TO THE MACHINE. :x

By pad-ophiliac Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:50 am
:lol:
By ucacjbs Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:47 pm
:roll: CAN SOMEONE WITH A LITTLE COMMON SENSE SHOW THE PEOPLE IN THE FORUM HOW TO READ THE MANUAL THAT DESCRIBES PRETTY DAMN CLEARLY HOW THE MIDI CABLES SHOULD BE CONNECTED TO OTHER MIDI DEVICES. FAILING THAT CAN SOMEONE FIGURE OUT HOW TO SEARCH THE FORUM AND POSSIBLY EVEN USE GOOGLE TO FIND BASIC INFORMATION ON HOW MIDI WORKS :x
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By ucacjbs Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:54 pm
Oh man, this was moved into 'Getting started', making me look like a jerk.

Firstly, check out www.tweakheadz.com and look around for their introduction to MIDI and digital audio. If you're thinking of plugging MIDI cables into your mixing board, then I think you need to learn the difference between MIDI and audio; if you don't, then there's not much chance you'll be able to get things working properly. Once you've looked over that stuff and feel comfortable with it, try the following.


1) You've skipped the tweakheadz page, haven't you? OK, well don't blame me if you don't understand what comes next. Alternatively, actually do some work and read http://www.tweakheadz.com/how_to_get_st ... _midi.html and http://www.tweakheadz.com/setting_up_yo ... o_card.htm.

2) I will assume that you have a MIDI interface for your computer that is running Reason. Take a MIDI cable, and connect one of the MPC's MIDI outs to the MIDI in of your computer's MIDI interface. This will enable the MPC's sequencer to trigger Reason.

3) If you want to hear Reason and the MPC at the same time, which I would think you do, then the simplest way is to use a mixer. Hook up the audio outputs of the MPC to the mixer's inputs, and the audio outputs of your PC to the audio inputs of the mixer. Connect the mixer's output to your amp/speakers/headphones/whatever, and away you go.
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By Antonym Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:55 pm
ucacjbs wrote:Oh man, this was moved into 'Getting started', making me look like a jerk.

Firstly, check out www.tweakheadz.com and look around for their introduction to MIDI and digital audio. If you're thinking of plugging MIDI cables into your mixing board, then I think you need to learn the difference between MIDI and audio; if you don't, then there's not much chance you'll be able to get things working properly. Once you've looked over that stuff and feel comfortable with it, try the following.


1) You've skipped the tweakheadz page, haven't you? OK, well don't blame me if you don't understand what comes next.

2) I will assume that you have a MIDI interface for your computer that is running Reason. Take a MIDI cable, and connect one of the MPC's MIDI outs to the MIDI in of your computer's MIDI interface. This will enable the MPC's sequencer to trigger Reason.

3) If you want to hear Reason and the MPC at the same time, which I would think you do, then the simplest way is to use a mixer. Hook up the audio outputs of the MPC to the mixer's inputs, and the audio outputs of your PC to the audio inputs of the mixer. Connect the mixer's output to your amp/speakers/headphones/whatever, and away you go.


yeah. jerk.

By ucacjbs Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:56 pm
Antonym wrote:
yeah. jerk.


Gah!
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By Lampdog Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:29 pm
LMBAO, I moved it because what you are describing and speaking on is "getting started" stuff.

Although, I DO feel your pain and I understand where you are coming from.