help

i finally made the transfer to using hardware i got all my stuff right now and ive hookes up all the midi , audio cables but now i need help getting my motif to slave to the mpc so i can record the sounds into the motif. i have everything hoked upo to the mpc and to the 002 but i cant get nothing to sound in protools becuase i need to to get all the midi hooked up right within the mo and motif can someone help me please. ive been reading like crazy and getting real frustrated.

someone please help im goin crazy here man.

this is very clear in the manual, but what is exactly your problem?

i need help getting my motif to slave to the mpc so i can record the sounds into the motif

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i cant get nothing to sound in protools

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need to to get all the midi hooked up right

its like three different things

everythieng but the last one i have the cables hooked up but i im trying to hook it up in the mp for some reason im going through the mp manual and i just can get it on the motif or the mp i need help doing it in the mp sampler on the screen like setting up the midi and same in the motif.

so you want to record samples/ sounds from you mpc in the motif? in that case -> stereo out(or one of the 8-outs) - in an insert on the motif en record... sounds through midi cables wont work, just the sequences

did u change the program to midi on the mp?

no im going to record the motif sounds into the mp to then after i make the beat bounce it to protools,

Versatile255 wrote:no im going to record the motif sounds into the mp to then after i make the beat bounce it to protools,

If you want to record the motif sounds into the MP, you need to connect the outs of the Motif to the Record Ins on the MPC. As was mentioned before, MIDI transmits DATA, not sounds.

Peace,
KM

oh, i thought u were trying to sync em up

dude above me is right!

dont know what youre tryin to do but here's what you should do, disregard references to the mbox, of course...

cooocooo1 wrote:MPC midi out A to Motif midi in> Motif midi out to MPC midi in 1. Run all audio outs to audio inputs on your mixer and run the stereo outs on your mixer to the inputs on the MBox.

Just in case you're doing something else wrong here's a short step by step(I should add that I don't have the Motif rack and these suggestions are from using one a few times and how my rack equipment works):

1. Load up a drum program and record a drum track on track 1.

2. Cursor over to "01-Track-01" in the main screen and change it to "02-Track-02">cursor down to "DRUM1" and scroll left to "MIDI"> cursor over to "OFF" and change it to "1A-Device01"> On the Motif rack press "MULTI", this will allow you to setup the Motif as a multi-timbral device. You can use the MPC or the Motif interface to change the patches but you'll have to use the Motif interface to change the banks. Select a bass patch(or whatever) on channel 1 and record a bassline(or whatever). Repeat this step for as many tracks as you need making sure to always use the right midi channels. If you want to sequence more "sample" tracks just make sure DRUM 1: OFF (or DRUM2,3,4 : OFF) is selected in the track menu.

3. When you're all done sequencing turn off the loop function on the MPC and select a free midi channel if you have one left and rewind your sequence all the way to the beginning> set the Motif rack to send sys ex and set up the MPC to recieve a midi dump> press and HOLD the "REC" button on the MPC and trigger the midi dump from the Motif rack, when the Motif has completed the dump let go of the "REC" button. Save everything as you normaly would and when you want to load that sequence back up the MPC will tell the rack what voices and evrything else to load and you're good to go.

When I track everything in Pro Tools I erase all the sys ex data from the sequence cuz I like to get as strong a signal as possible when tracking and with the sys ex data still there it will keep the volume at whatever it was at when you saved it. For example, if you have a soft string track lacing the background of the sequence you'll want to turn that up when tracking so you're recording a strong signal, once you have the track in PT you can bring it back down in the mix. You always want to get a strong signal cuz the weaker the signal you record the more noise you introduce if you have to bring the levels up in PT.

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perks you right but i got it cocco now step 1 and 2 help me do it.

im using the keyboard i kinda gotta hooked up just need to know how to change the patches coococo when i try it just changes the one i just recorded/

you need to be in pattern or song mode...