using the mpc as Transport-Controller for DAW?

Hey everybody!

is it possible to use the MPC as a controller for transport-fuctions (play, stop, record) in the daw? so for example, if i press "play" on the mpc, the daw starts playing, if i hit "play start" the daw plays the song from beginning, if i hit "rec" the daw starts recording an so on.
Is that possible? I use logic 8...

thanks for your help!

I do that with the MPC 1000 and Ableton, but I don't seem to be able to integrate the record button.
transport, play and play from the beginning work fine

how are your settings? i tried it in logic, but it doesn't work.
I set the sync out of the mpc to "AB (Master)", "MIDI Clock" and "MMC On" but Logic doesn't respond to that

I have the same, try checking the preferences in Logic as well, in Ableton I had to tick a few boxes in the sync/midi section to get it to work.

in ableton i can sync sith only minor fusses, but no luck in logic till now, tried various tweakz.
if anyone is lucky on the logic side please report!

there seems to be a bug in JJ OS's Sync-Out Mode if set to "Midi Time Code":

If you set your daw to sync with an external device (using midi time code) and hit play on the mpc (mpc's sync out set to midi time code as well) the daw jumps to position - 8 1 1 1 and stays there, wiggeling around a little.
I think this is not supposed to be this way, is it?


@ hyena, you can at least use the start/stop buttons of the mpc to control logic if you activate "Recive MMC" in your project settings -> Sync -> Midi -> Midi Machine Control

yah,thanks but for that i use a novation remote zero sl

DrNibbert wrote:there seems to be a bug in JJ OS's Sync-Out Mode if set to "Midi Time Code":

If you set your daw to sync with an external device (using midi time code) and hit play on the mpc (mpc's sync out set to midi time code as well) the daw jumps to position - 8 1 1 1 and stays there, wiggeling around a little.
I think this is not supposed to be this way, is it?

it's been a while since I tried to sync logic to my 1k, but I remember fixing that particular problem by changing the mtc start time to all zeros in logics preferences. Sorry to be so vague, but basically the problem is that logic considers 1:00:00:00 as the star of the sequence (bar 1), while the mpc considers 0:00:00:00 as the bar 1 position. So when the mpc sends the initial timecode, logic immediately tries to rewind an hour back. But of course logic can only go back 8 bars before bar one. So basically logic is trying to sync the time position whil also trying to play. Hence the wobble at bar -8.

Oh and, as of version 8, logic no longer slaves to midi clock. Mtc and mmc are the only options.

Just recently tried cubase 5 with MTC and MMC and now you can get them to loop / looprecord together! excellent, Cubase sx3 wouldnt do that by the way!

mp3 wrote:it's been a while since I tried to sync logic to my 1k, but I remember fixing that particular problem by changing the mtc start time to all zeros in logics preferences. Sorry to be so vague, but basically the problem is that logic considers 1:00:00:00 as the star of the sequence (bar 1), while the mpc considers 0:00:00:00 as the bar 1 position. So when the mpc sends the initial timecode, logic immediately tries to rewind an hour back. But of course logic can only go back 8 bars before bar one. So basically logic is trying to sync the time position whil also trying to play. Hence the wobble at bar -8.

thanks a lot, that sounds reasonable! Gonna try it as soon as i'm home

ok, that did the trick
my only problem is now that logic won't change the tempo to the mpc's tempo, but i suppose thats how Midi-Time Code works?

Good sh1t! Yeah mtc doesn't sync tempo.