Sending midi to ableton from moog

[xombiexplox]

yeah i know it's most definitely me doing something wrong. So... Midi in and out cables are connected from the moots midi in and the midi out to the keyboard mini in and out... I also don't have any settings on the slim to merge midi data. I didn't think that was needed but I got an e-mail from a guy at moog saying this: "When you turn the knobs, the MIDI CC information is being seen and recorded by Ableton just fine. This suggests that the MIDI output of the Slim is working just fine. It will not send note on/off messages if the notes are being sent to it viz MIDI. If it was set up on the same track that would start a MIDI feedback loop. The only way the Slim will send notes out would be through the MIDI THRU port or if you merged MIDI Out with MIDI IN to send notes. This would however defeat the purpose of controlling it from a computer."


OMG... i kind of got it working lmao but it's doing what he said it would do which is do a midi loop thing.

ok I got it working... FML. for some reason I didn't think any midi merge was needed. Sorry everybody! lol Basically I just had to have under "MIDI MERGE - DIN IN: BOTH OUT"

p.s. I did actually try all the midi merge settings at one point but in order for it to work i had to do a recycle

Well I am confused at how you connect everything because judging by what you said, you only have the slim connected to the keyboard and not the computer. I am new to this world of MIDI, but may I ask why you connected both the MIDI IN and OUT of your Slim to the MIDI IN and OUT of your keyboard?

[namahshaman]

I'm guessing the midi keyboard also serves as a midi interface for the computer . . . but I may be wrong.

FWIW, I've controlled my Slim with Live before using a Novation SL MKII, in which case, I connected USB from my Mac to the Novation, and the midi in-and-out to the Phatty. In this setup, even though I could use Live to control the Phatty via midi, I could also record the midi information into Live that I played on the Phatty (knob tweaks, etc.). Of course, I still had to use two tracks, one audio and one midi.

[zac darmon]

yeah i know it's most definitely me doing something wrong. So... Midi in and out cables are connected from the moots midi in and the midi out to the keyboard mini in and out... I also don't have any settings on the slim to merge midi data. I didn't think that was needed but I got an e-mail from a guy at moog saying this: "When you turn the knobs, the MIDI CC information is being seen and recorded by Ableton just fine. This suggests that the MIDI output of the Slim is working just fine. It will not send note on/off messages if the notes are being sent to it viz MIDI. If it was set up on the same track that would start a MIDI feedback loop. The only way the Slim will send notes out would be through the MIDI THRU port or if you merged MIDI Out with MIDI IN to send notes. This would however defeat the purpose of controlling it from a computer."


OMG... i kind of got it working lmao but it's doing what he said it would do which is do a midi loop thing.

ok I got it working... FML. for some reason I didn't think any midi merge was needed. Sorry everybody! lol Basically I just had to have under "MIDI MERGE - DIN IN: BOTH OUT"

p.s. I did actually try all the midi merge settings at one point but in order for it to work i had to do a recycle

Well I am confused at how you connect everything because judging by what you said, you only have the slim connected to the keyboard and not the computer. I am new to this world of MIDI, but may I ask why you connected both the MIDI IN and OUT of your Slim to the MIDI IN and OUT of your keyboard?

No it is connected to the computer, that's where my problems been. Usb to computer and the midi cords to the keyboard.
It's so I can make ableton play the moog from notes written in the program AND I can play the keyboard to play the notes AND send the midi notes of the keyboard to ableton to be recorded.

So basically, I play the keyboard and record the midi while hearing the moog. Then i fine tune what I played on teh keyboard and fix stupid latency stuff in ableton. Then I hit "play" in ableton to make ableton play the recorded midi notes which play the moog. Then i can record the audio while its playing and i can also tweak nobs while it plays the tune... n stuff... lol

[zac darmon]

my god i am dumb... yeah I didn't need both midi cables lmao. for some reason I thought the midi had to go to the keyboard to play the moog... but ableton is playing the moog.... if that makes any sense. thanks for pointing out how dumb i am :p