Tutorial: Using Logic Pro 8 With Your MPC4000

Your not gonna believe this but i reset the mpc and now the messages have stopped scrolling like a mad man, it is working like the q25 now....WTF!!!??

SimonInAustralia wrote:If I ever make it over, and down, to Taos for some snowboarding, I will look you up.

Good man! Sounds good!!

Nice one!

OK, now see if you can get the multi-instrument thing in Logic working, from multiple MPC tracks.

Okay im gonna start from the beginning of this thread and follow everything to a Tee

I think you should have more success, now that the MPC MIDI output and USB-MIDI cable seem to be working correctly.

It was not going to happen when the MPC was spitting out crap, and you had the IN/OUT plugs the wrong way around.

Holy BAjesus!!! IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!!!!!! MPC studio and Ren eat Ya heart out!!! Oh yeah and Maschine.....Im coming for yah,lolol lmfao!! THANK YOU SO MUCH SIMON you are a GENIUS!!!!!!

djdz1 wrote:GENIUS

Not genius...OCD.

Hehehehe you the man,thanks again man Peace SIMON!!!! Now its time for some serious action!!

Already did haha thanks man,yall are on some next level ish here!! Now to figure out how to get the logic instruments in order, the notes are all scattered

You need to setup your MPC pads, in Program Mode, so that they are assigned to, and output, consecutive MIDI note numbers, it is referred to as a chromatic layout.

As default, the MPC Pad-MIDI note numbers are all over the place.

The default layout originates in the pre-MPC Linn drum machines, similar to a General MIDI drum layout, I think, but pre-dating General MIDI.

Excellent im on top of it now,ty again Simon =)

Another quick little question here. Whats the need of having 2 midi outs and ins? How would i benefit from the other in and out?

A MIDI port/cable carries 16 MIDI channels.

You can connect whatever you want to them.

A MIDI output could, for example, be connected to a range of different devices, and MIDI can be split or chained, meaning that you can have multiple devices on each port, such as:

- mutlitimbral synth/sampler that responds to multiple MIDI channels
- mono synth that responds to a single MIDI channel
- drum module that responds to a single MIDI channel
- effects units that respond to a single MIDI channel
- drum machine or sequencer that can sync to MIDI
- etc.

The two MIDI inputs could be used for a MIDI controller keyboard and incoming MIDI sync from a computer, or a MIDI fader box, for example, among other things.

Many different options for what you can connect to, and do on, each MIDI input and output.

So if i understand correctly , i could hook up the q25 to the mpc and then both into my daw?