liquidh2o

Problems Recording W/ Keyboard In Reason

I bought a yamaha DGX-500 recently, as well as an emagic mt4 to handle the midi in/out to my mac. Setup was a breeze, and I have reason 2.0 setup right now to where i can actually hear the notes i'm playing on my keyboard through reason.

Problem is, when I go to record a track, and i'm playing notes through the keyboard, reason isn't recording what i play. I've tried going thru the different synthesizers and the same results.

I followed the instructions on the FAQ for Reason for setting up my keyboard to record, and still no luck.

My setup is as follows.

Dual Ghz Mirror Drive power mac
running os 10.2.2
Reason 2.01 (the .01 is the latest update i believe)
Emagic mt4
Yamaha DGX-500

also of note I only have the yamaha DGX-500 setup with only midi out to the mt4, but I believe that's all i should need since i'm not wanting to hear what i play thru the sequencers(in reason) on the keyboard, is this right or am i missing something?

Your help would be greatly appreciated, as all i can do right now is just listen to the pretty sounds my keyboard makes while routed thru the synths and sequencers, talk about frustrating!

Thanks.

Recomendations On Purchases For Sound Engineering

I've been spending the last couple months holding out on buying a mac with the rumors of the new g4's, so as soon as they were announced i purchased the dual 1ghz model(and went 3rd party w/ a 1.5gb ram kit).

My main reason for buying this mac is to start learning sound engineering. In short, i'm looking to make/edit music. As far as instruments go, the only one involved would be a keyboard(i'm taking piano lessons). I'm looking to get into more of the Nine Inch Nails, fatboy slim type of music, but i'm unsure as to what software/hardware i should buy to get started out. Also any literature on making this type of music would be helpful.

So this leads me to here, and hopefully some of you can help me out. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!