No Sound From Midi Options

[Guitar Psycho]

I know, a common issue but I have tried many answers on other forums to no avail......

I can receive MIDI signals and record MIDI tracks from my Roland XP-60 but there is NO SOUND at playback. I am thinking after some research that I need to set up a correct Audio interface but my hacking has not been sucessful yet. Please note I can sucessfully get the Quicktime Synth working fine but I want my own sounds from the XP.

Here is my setup, a checklist. Any ideas on what might be missing?

1) I have set up the Audio Interface in the Finder>Go>Utilities>Audio MID Setup>Midi Devices to show my Roland XP-60 connected to my MIDISport USB port (In and Out).

2) In Logic Audio Hardware and Drivers I have Core Audio enabled.

3) In my Logic Environment I have a Physical Input connected to my Roland XP.

With this I can get the MIDI enough to record. I am not sure how to set up my Audio in the Environment to get the sound to work so I can hear it at playback. I was thinking a simple Audio Track Object would be fine but I must be missing some parm or something.

Any pointers at all I would be willing to try.....

This post has been edited by Guitar Psycho: Thu 14 Dec 2006, 22:05

[Jim Hoyland]

It may be hard to answer this without a little more info, but here goes.

Once you've set up your Audio and Midi interfaces in "Audio Midi Setup" you shouldn't really need to do anything more in Logic's environments, it may simply be a matter of where the sound you want to hear is coming from. In order to hear the output of your Roland it needs to have a physical connection either to a mixer or back into a monitored audio input in Logic. If you don't have cabling from either the main audio outputs or the headphone out you won't be able to hear a thing as midi only carries note triggers and modifiers rather than audio as such.

In the arrange page, create a midi track which is addressing your Roland (to check this, create a track and then click and hold to bring up a dialogue which should contain audio tracks, audio instruments and midi instruments - the tracks available will reflect whats in your environment). Record some data into this track (or write some data in using the matrix editor). Loop playback and check that your keyboard is receiving the data (some keyboards have a midi rec'd led or lcd in the editor window). Also try attaching some headphones to the HP out socket. You should be hearing something.

As the only interface you mention is Midi only, you may have to use the built-in line input to monitor. You'll need either a stereo jack to mini-jack adaptor or two jacks to mini-jack. Once connected, record arm an audio track and you should be able to hear (& see) the audio output of your keys.