Hey,
I just recently bought a yamaha motif 6 off of a friend, along with a Rode NT100 mic and a small mixer with phantom power (basically so i could get the mic to work).
The Problem i'm having is with getting it all hooked up. I recently bought a new pc, and i feel that i made a mistake in purchasing the Audigy sound blaster platinum pro crap card with external unit. The external unit refuses to work and i still can't figure out why.
Anyways, i have a laptop, and the mixer and mic work perfectly on that, but i can't hook up the motif 6 because it just crashes my system (obviously i dont have enough memory or ram)... On my desktop when i hook up the motif 6 via USB, and i try to install the drivers given to me on cd, it tells me that they might not be compatible with windows xp - i installed them anyways. The computer picks up that there is a USB device, and lists it as 'Yamaha MIDI Drivers'....My problem at that point is getting it to run on a program. I have Cubasis vst 4 and Steinberg Nuendo. How can i get it to work on either? I've tried everything.
(Sorry if this post seems all over the place, i'm just confused as it is)
Also, since my ****in (sorry) external unit on the soundcard wont work, i can't plug in the mixer or the mic, making my new beast of a computer a waste of time (for the moment).
It's a P4 3.2ghz, 1 gig ram, 120 gig hard drive space.....
Can anyone give me some tips, advice, slap in the face, whatever? I need anything i can get. I'm not a technical wizard, i prefer making the music.
Btw, does anyone else have problems with the motif 6 occasionally shocking you a bit? haha, i mean, sometimes when i put my hand on the "shell" of it, i feel an electric surge. Nothing big, just really really annoying. I unplugged it just to be safe.
Peace.
I just recently bought a yamaha motif 6 off of a friend, along with a Rode NT100 mic and a small mixer with phantom power (basically so i could get the mic to work).
The Problem i'm having is with getting it all hooked up. I recently bought a new pc, and i feel that i made a mistake in purchasing the Audigy sound blaster platinum pro crap card with external unit. The external unit refuses to work and i still can't figure out why.
Anyways, i have a laptop, and the mixer and mic work perfectly on that, but i can't hook up the motif 6 because it just crashes my system (obviously i dont have enough memory or ram)... On my desktop when i hook up the motif 6 via USB, and i try to install the drivers given to me on cd, it tells me that they might not be compatible with windows xp - i installed them anyways. The computer picks up that there is a USB device, and lists it as 'Yamaha MIDI Drivers'....My problem at that point is getting it to run on a program. I have Cubasis vst 4 and Steinberg Nuendo. How can i get it to work on either? I've tried everything.
(Sorry if this post seems all over the place, i'm just confused as it is)
Also, since my ****in (sorry) external unit on the soundcard wont work, i can't plug in the mixer or the mic, making my new beast of a computer a waste of time (for the moment).
It's a P4 3.2ghz, 1 gig ram, 120 gig hard drive space.....
Can anyone give me some tips, advice, slap in the face, whatever? I need anything i can get. I'm not a technical wizard, i prefer making the music.
Btw, does anyone else have problems with the motif 6 occasionally shocking you a bit? haha, i mean, sometimes when i put my hand on the "shell" of it, i feel an electric surge. Nothing big, just really really annoying. I unplugged it just to be safe.
Peace.