No midi drums to liquid safire 56

[bobbyrichards]

I am running pro tools 10, i have a roland TD15 edrum set and a liquid safire 56 interface, mac pro tower. Yesterday i was recording a drum track and when i went back to record over it the first take kept playing and would not let me record over the first take??? Today i turn on my system and i have no midi in on the interface front panel light ???

Please help !!!!!!!!!

[YYR123]

I have your same set up except I'm running alesis drums I will USB interface into the tower To record my midi track

But then I also audio output into my focus right Sapphire 56 to record the audio track

That way I have midi available for editing but I also have zero latency mix to feed the headphones to the other musicians

[YYR123]

I said all that to say this doublecheck your midi connections midi through (in PT)
your instrument channel the controller that it set to on the instrument channel section also

[bobbyrichards]

Yes i am too running an instrument track and then audio tracks for the actual edrums but i can not get my midi in light to come on, on the front of the 56????? Been stuck like this for 2 days now, i don't know what to do.

[bobbyrichards]

I even just changed my midi cable from the edrums to the tower. NOTHING

[bobbyrichards]

It has got to be something in my setting i am missing?????

[YYR123]

Like I said I don't own the Rowland but you might want to check and make sure that the settings are outputting or set up to output MIDI data

[bobbyrichards]

Where is the output midi data?????

[YYR123]

In your Roland - make sure it didn't get changed - some units will have to toggle on the output to midi

I had a keyboard that let me toggle the midi data from the USB or the midi out

- and for what it's worth I would
Recommend running USB straight to the computer to capture all of that midi data - there should be no reason to run it to the 56 then back to the computer via FW

Like instated earlier I do the same setup with the same interface but I run Out of the drum controller straight to the computer via USB

One thing you might try is to set up a standalone app maybe a drum program or standalone something native instruments where you can control midi outside of ProTools and get that working and then go back into pro tools and try it again

[albee1952]

Did you set up the Roland as a midi instrument in Pro Tools>Setup>Midi>Midi Studio?