Playing & Recording a Boss DR-670 via MIDI

lauschepper · Post by **lauschepper** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:02 pm

hi, I'm kinda new to this

I'm trying to play and record drum sounds from my Boss DR-670 Drummachine via Midi into Ableton Live. I'm using a M-audio fast track pro as an audio interface, connected the drummachine midi out to the interface's midi input.

when i play a pattern ableton shows midi signals and i can record "notes" but can't play or hear sounds!

can anyone help me or are there any tutorials considering this

many thanks in advance

cheameup · Post by **cheameup** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:47 am

you have to have an istrumnet on the midi track for the notes to play. Midid signals are just on and off signals .

Have you put a drum kit on the midi track ?

lauschepper · Post by **lauschepper** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:32 am

i dont get it, it must be possible to play and record the sounds that are getting produced by the drummachine via midi! i dont want to use it as a midi controller, i want to use it as a drum synthesizer!

or is this impossible!?

*edit* may i got i wrong an midi is only for signal processing and not for actual sound transfer!?

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:47 am

MIDI is just the score - notes, dynamics, tempo, etc - you need to connect it to an orchestra to get sounds!

The answer is simple - you connect the audio outpus on the drum machine to the inputs of a soundcard, then you can record the audio.

lauschepper · Post by **lauschepper** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:16 am

oke so i just have to play around a bit with the master / slave thing to sync ableton to my drummachine or the other way around i guess