When recording midi in Ableton: make sure that yellow OVR button is on at the top. I’m assuming that you have the correct midi ins and out configured on the MIDI track. Arm the track. When you start recording midi make sure that the midi track’s cell triangle on the left of the cell is red. Once it is you can start recording midi. If the audio track is armed as well and configued to output to the master or sends, you should hear your Voyager.
To just hear already recorded midi: I have a Midi Sport 2x2. Voyager’s Midi Out goes to the midisport’s In A. Voyager’s Midi In goes to the 2x2’s Out B. I have Ableton’s midi track configued to reflect that. I only have to arm the audio track to hear the synth. You don’t have to arm the midi track for pre-recorded midi.
I ask because I also have a Midisport 2x2 (Tosh Tecra, 1GHz, 256MB) and always encounter sloppy MIDI timing when recording into Ableton. I’m not recording any audio.
How good is your MIDI in timing relative to recorded MIDI or clock, and if it’s good, is there anything special you do to get it that way?
I use Windows XP. I’ve not noticed a timing problem, but I am only using softsynths, a Voyager, an LP, and clips/loops that I have created. I’ll try hooking my Q rack with arps and sequences and see if there’s a problem with timing. I’ll have to do that tonight.
yea.. i guess my problem is different than you guys see it. ill try again.
im only trying to send the midi to the moog and then record the audio back. i dont need moogs midi out info.
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002 out > moog midi in- channel 5 on both. moog front midi LED is receving the midi from live. the track is armed fine, but when i play the keyboard the audio goes into my ableton channels. can’t figure it out…
Try checking the MIDI Key Order setting on the Voyager Master menu. It needs to be set to “off” or the Voyager thinks it’s part of a polyphonic stack and might not play the first MIDI note sent to it.
I don’t know ableton, but I’ve had the issue before w/ other sequencers of the sequencer sending “zero all controllers” message when play or stop is pressed - which basically can turn off the audio of the Voyager. (for instance all EGR settings @ zero, all mixer levels @ zero, filter cutoff @ 0 = no sound)
One thing I do if I’m sequencing with the voyager is send the panel sound (current preset) to the sequencer and place the SysEx data at the start of the track so that I’m guaranteed to always start from the same place when the track starts - it’s especially important if you tweak a preset as part of the track. Most sequencers send program changes to select the sound at the start of the track (and that works as well as the SysEx if you are using an unmodified preset), but if the “zero all controllers” message happens after the program change it can zap the Voyager’s output as stated above.
Don’t know if it helps, but good luck. I know I wasted a good bit of time one evening tracking that one down…
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