i have a rack,a midi interface and a keyboard.. please help!!

**Fewture** · 10-01-2004

i dont know aything about MIDI. i know it sends information and not music or sound, so i dont understand how to record music using midi on my computer. someone tell me what connects where and other tips. my keyboard has a midi in and out. my motif rack has a midi in,thru,and out, and my tascam 122 has midi in and out.. so what do i connect to what. please help. how can i use my epuipment to its max, all i do is use the audio ,and have never used midi, but someone said thats its better

**dansgold** · 10-01-2004

Please take this the right way ...

Your question is about the same as saying "Hey, I bought a piano, but I don't know anything about it. It's got white keys and black keys. How can I play it to its fullest?"

What you have is professional equipment. You need to take the time to learn MIDI and a few other things.

**Fewture** · 10-01-2004

just tell me which out to which in,and what settings to put on acid 4.0 or logic. ill figure the rest out. i know how to use the rack via midi with a keyboard. i know how to control the rack via the computer(sequencer/midi patterns record with keyboard), the only thing i dont know how to do is icorporate these 3 things best, which in to which out. i got 3 midi cables. and ill take it from there

**dansgold** · 10-01-2004

Originally posted by Fewture
just tell me which out to which in,and what settings to put on acid 4.0 or logic. ...

No, that would be treating you like a child. I have too much respect for my fellow human beings to do that, and you should have more respect for yourself than to put up with it.

**CubaseRox** · 10-02-2004

With all due respect fewture, dan is right. You should learn the basicv functions of MIDI.

all i do is use the audio ,and have never used midi, but someone said thats its better.

MIDI is not better its only convenient. You don't worry about changing notes or patterns etc.

"Made a mistake or a certain note doesn't sound right? No problem! Just open some sort of "key editor" and change the invalid note(s)".

There are things you can do to and with audio that you just cant do with MIDI.

**Fewture** · 10-03-2004

Fu@$in hater. why the hell are you so philosophical about it, i taught myself how to play piano,guitar,drums,bass,how to use acid,and how to use my d1200. all i need to know is what connection goes where and ill figure the rest out!!$hit.imbecil

**dansgold** · 10-03-2004

Wow, you really make me want to help you talking like that.

Seriously, if I thought telling you "what connection goes where" would actually help you, I'd tell you in a heartbeat.

The fact of the matter is that there are probably 2 or 3 ways to hook that up (just off the top of my head, mind you) depending on exactly waht you are trying to accomplish at any given moment.

Should I decide for you what you ought to do?

You think I'm being a jerk? Fine ... doesn't bug me, 'cuz all I'm doing is telling the truth. If the truth hurts, then it needs to.

MIDI isn't like any kind of audio application that you have yet encountered. It's much more like setting up a very small, simplified computer network ... a network of electronic instruments and related devices.

Like it or not, there really aren't any good shortcuts to getting up-to-speed with the basic principles. This forum is littered to the brim with posts from guys who had someone "tell them how to hook up the wires", and have discovered that they are now more confused than when they started.

Would I be doing you a service by contributing to that kind of misunderstanding on your part? Hardly.

You need to give yourself some time to learn and understand MIDI before just diving in and hooking things up. Visit www.tweakheadz.com and go through the tutorials there ... it's probably the best place to start.

**Fewture** · 10-03-2004

i already read that shyt, it doesnt show you how to incorporate all three things i have , it just teaches you how to the suff i already know ,and how it works. i know how to controll a rack with a keyboard via midi. i understand that its notan audio signal ,but mearly information about, programs,velocity,keys played and so fourth. so i dont understand how at the studio ol'dude was recording via midi,he had a mac and some rack, and it recorded the sounds and even when he changed the rack sounds it still played the old sound recorded as if it was audio. i can record the pattern i play and play it back,but if i change the sound on the rack ,itll start playing the pattern with the new sound, and thats what i dont get. how he recorded it and it stayed there

**krushing** · 10-03-2004

Oh please. If you really read through the Tweakheadz tutorials and actually understood it (also known as "shyt I already know), it shouldn't be a problem at all to hook it all up. The people here are trying to help you, but you have to realize there's no point in just telling you "this goes there and this goes there", because it doesn't teach you sh*t. Yea, you get your setup working, but you still won't know how it works or what other ways you could hook it up.

C'mon, learning basic MIDI theory is an evening's read. You'd probably have gotten it by now if you would've spent your time learning and experimenting instead of b*tching at us for not spoon-feeding you information.

People on this site are helpful, but you have to have some effort in you.

**Fewture** · 10-03-2004

im glad i get to work with usher and outkast to name a few. knowing you probably never will(is a safe bet), makes me feel better, assholes. ill just ask at the studio.. thanks for nothin.. u'r just mad because nobody was there for you and you want everyone else to go through what u went through. it tends to be the older people like 15 and up that hate like that, because they are old still trying to make it realising it probably wont, there was this duse that plays piano (my moms uncle) and like 3 years ago he would tell me that unless i take lessons, read books or learn how to read sheet music , i will never advance in piano and will not be able to become real good. now i play bettern than him, and im self taught. people that did shyt the hard way get mad at dudes doin it better like"shyt ,why didnt i think of that?"i did it the hard way, so im gonna make them do it the hard way