Using a synth with Live

Lucaz · Post by **Lucaz** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:42 pm

I've a Novation Bass Station (an analog midi synth), can I send and receive midi in Live 5?
I've tried to set the "midi from" and the "midi to" correctly and the signal arrive to Live, but there isn't no sound!

Thank you

PanJan77 · Post by **PanJan77** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:29 pm

Yes, you can send and recieve midi in Live 5!

Did you put an midi instrument ( e.g. operator ) on your midi track? Because if you don't, there is nothing the sound can come from!

.J.

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:22 pm

Did you put an midi instrument ( e.g. operator ) on your midi track? Because if you don't, there is nothing the sound can come from!

Eeehh...

...but he was talking about a hardware synth.

Lucaz, welcome! Yes it's possible. Definitely! Hook up your synth to midi ins and outs of your interface (in my case Midisport 4x4). In Live set midi out to (for example) Midisport out A - now you can play your Basstation from within Live.

By the way - it's all in the manual!

Regards,
Mikael

SimonPHC · Post by **SimonPHC** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:34 am

and make shure that bassstation has an audio cable connected to your soundcard or mixer...

also, turn it on

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:23 am

SimonPHC wrote:and make shure that bassstation has an audio cable connected to your soundcard or mixer...

also, turn it on

Yeah... and turn on the mixer and make sure you have the mixer connected to a pair of speakers.

SimonPHC · Post by **SimonPHC** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:44 pm

so Lucaz, does it work?

If there's still a problem you might wanna google a bit about Bassstion and MIDI cause I heard there's this litle tricky thing going on. Supposedly you need to set the midi in channel AND the midi out channel to the same channel on your b station. most people would think the midi is broken, but it's not ... so anyways. check it out

Lucaz · Post by **Lucaz** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:15 am

Really thank you! Now it works (really well...). I Forgot only to connect the audio cable of the synth to the in of my sound card (after i hear the sound from an Audio clip with "ext. in"). Is great!

Thank you!