Help Setting Up Midi In Dp4 Options

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Hello everyone, my first post on the new forums - glad to be here! I've been using DP4 as an audio only program an a G4800 in my music room for some time now, so I've never had to try to set up MIDI on OSX until now. I just installed the program in my upstairs office, and can't seem to get the MIDI hooked up properly. I'm trying to hook a keyboard controller up to the input of a MOTU Fastlane, then out to a Kurzweil PC2R. In the "Audio MIDI Setup" window, I made these connections, and the "input" arrow of the fastlane icon lights up when I test it. However, nothing registers on the "MIDI Monitor" in DP4.

Any suggestions of what to do next would be greatly appreciated.

[tunetwister]

The first thing to do is to make sure the units are in your midi set up right in the Apple midi set up program. If the auto hook up dose not work you may connect them manualy by dragging the vertual wires. I have 8 synthersisers so my problem was making sure all the units were pluged into the right ports in my hub, this is importent. Also set the receve and transmit channels correctly, if needed. Then you need to make sure the synthersisers are programed to work with your set up.
Some times I get no midi at all or one of my synthersisers will not receve or transmit. There are a number of things I have to do to get them to work when this happens. Starting with clicking "rescan midi set up" all the way to restarting the computer or the offending unit. This happens expeccialy after sleep. The computer not me ,I don't get much myself.
Good luck keep digging.