Hey everyone, I was wondering if there was someone here who could walk me through the solution to my problem. I've been trying to set up my MIDI stuff for a long time, and I've gotten it to work for the most part. The only thing is that the sound won't come out of the recording. Everything's going in, I just can't get the MIDI to play back.

I'm using a Mac OSX with ProTools 7.1, with a DigiRack 002. The MIDI is Reason 3.0 (newest version available I think) with an M-Audio keyboard controller. I've gotten the M-Audio to run to Reason which then runs into ProTools, and it all records perfectly fine, but it won't play any sound back. I haven't changed any of my OS preferences, or ProTools preferences, and I'm also using the headphone jack on the Digi002 since I don't have speakers. I figured any one of those would be good problem-starters.

Hope you can figure it out!

Tommy

"sigh"

Midi does not play back in itself. Midi is an interface to use with another application or effect or sound sampler or whatnot. You can set the midi out to the Microsoft Midi to hear the crap sounds to make sure it is working, but if you see the notes in protools, rest assured it is working.

You need to set this to another app, plugin, output into a sampler, or whatnot, basically saying "I want these notes to play THIS"

Think of MIDI like the conductor of an orchestra. It's no good the conductor waving his arms about if the orchestra isn't there! What you have to record is the sounds the orchestra (your sampler package, or whatever) is making, the MIDI conductor is just telling the orchestra what sounds to make.

Easy answer: download a program called WavePad. Google it and download it. It will record EVERYTHING you can hear on your headphones or speakers, so make sure the music is all that's going on! But it will record it as a sound file and when you go to save it, it will give you the option to save it as an MP3.

Hope this helps


ulrichburke