Logic Express And Midi Output, MIDI output going through keyboard Options

[lacmackay]

Hi everyone,

I've just gotten Logic Express 7. I have a Tascam US-428 and have connected that to the midi ports on my keyboard. I can record the midi but the audio during recording comes out of the keyboard speakers as well as my monitors which are connected to the US-428 via RCA outputs.

Even worse, when i play back what I have recorded, it only comes through the keyboard and no sound comes out the monitors at all.

CAN ANYONE HELP ME?

[banevt]

Midi doesn't transmit any audio signal. All midi does is tell your keyboard or virtual instrument or whatever what note to play and how loud or soft depending on the way you played it. The audio is totally a different connection that has to be made. Your Logic and keyboard setup is working the way it should. The audio is only triggered by the midi you record in Logic. You could either connect your audio outputs on your keyboard to your line inputs 1/2 or 3/4 on the US-428 and create a stereo auxiliary track in Logic that has the same inputs you decide to connect your keyboard to and the outputs of the aux track routed to the stereo outputs of your US-428 and you will hear it through the speakers connected to your US-428. You will have to find a way to disable the speakers on your Casio keyboard so you won't hear audio through them. Usually I don't think Casio is very configurable but maybe the speakers will automatically be disabled when you connect your audio outputs to something. All you do when you disable local control is you make the keys you play on your keyboard not trigger audio, but instead trigger from your midi input which is the way you should do it if you want to record what you play in Logic and have Logic trigger the sounds on your keyboard. I guess to make a long story short midi doesn't have anything to do with actual audio except to trigger your keyboard to make a sound. I hope this isn't confusing, I know a lot of people get confused about audio and midi. Good Luck with your setup I guess maybe I could look up your keyboard online to find specific info on the exact setup step by step. If I do I'll post it here for you.

Valente

This post has been edited by banevt: Thu 21 Jul 2005, 10:27