controlling the motif through midi

[Polyph]

Anyone know how to control the Yamaha Motif using protools as the master controller? If so what are the settings on both the motif and protools?

[Straatocastoer]

I'd be interested as well.

[Polyph]

I'd be interested as well.

I found out how to do it.
On Protools: goto Session setup - set frame rate to 30 (top right corner) - check box for mtc control (bottom left corner)

On Motif: goto Utilties - then MIDI - change seqctrl from internal to MTC - make sure clock out is on and seqctrl is set to in/out. Now goto SONG MODE. (when using MTC with the Motif keyboard it will only work in SONG MODE.)

MIDI CABLES: Connect a cable from the out1 of the Digi002 to the in of the Motif (This will allow you to control the Motif from the Digi002)

Connect another cable from the out of the Motif to the in of the DIGI002 (This will allow you to record midi notes if you want to). This is a handshake connection.

At this point when you press play in protools it will activate play on the keyboard. The 2 are now in synch.

Let me know if you have any questions Im telling you all of this from memory, Im not in front of my setup.

[Polyph]

Anyone has this setup?

[tele_player]

Maybe if the question was more specific somebody would respond.

[werds mekani]

you want to be able to hit play in the transport window and have it play the motif right?
if not rephrase the question..

[mfym]

I have answered this question so many times, I don't care to remember anymore. I don't have a Motif but the process works the same for any keyboard. Assuming you meant to say that you want to use PTLE as the master, take the midi out of the Motif to the midi in of the 002 (I assume that's your hardware), and midi out of the 002 into the midi in of the Motif. This requires midi cables.

In PTLE, make sure midi thru and Midi Beat Clock is enabled.

Take the audio outs of the Motif and plug them into a pair of inputs on the 002. Set up a stereo aux track in the mix window and assign the input of the aux track to the same input as the audio input. Create a midi track, record enable the track, play something on the Motif and you should be able to hear the Motif, provided the Motif is set up correctly.

Not being familiar with the Motif (I do have an old Yamaha sound module), I can say AFAIK that all synths need to be in sequence mode to use all 16 midi tracks, you will need to ensure local control is set to off, that the global midi channel (or some such term) is set to 1 and that midi clock is set to external.

When done right, this should allow you to control the Motif from PTLE and use the Motif to record into PTLE.

BTW: In the future, please post what Digdesign equipment you're using, since I'm not familiar with the process for midi interfaces (a MBox would need a midi interface, although the process should be similiar).

Hope this helps.

[Polyph]

Im using the digi002, w/protools 6. I want to use the digi 002 as a master controller so I can control the motifs transport and have my recordings synch. I dont want to record midi notes, just audio. When using the digi to control my mpc I go to the session setup and set the frame rate to 30 and use mtc so I make sure that option is checked. Then I set the mpc to 30 fps also and that works with out a problem for me! I know how to connect everything up physically as far as midi cables are concerned. I am having a problem configuring my motif settings properly to communicate with the digi002 through mtc. I would like to know the proper settings to do this for either mtc or midi with the motif and the digi002? i have also succesfully synched my motif with my mpc using the mpc as the master with midi. But had problems doing it with mtc. But for some reason with connections from the motif to the digi002 I could not get either (midi or mtc) to work. I hope that was clear enough.

[Polyph]

"In PTLE, make sure midi thru and Midi Beat Clock is enabled.
Not being familiar with the Motif (I do have an old Yamaha sound module), I can say AFAIK that all synths need to be in sequence mode to use all 16 midi tracks, you will need to ensure local control is set to off, that the global midi channel (or some such term) is set to 1 and that midi clock is set to external."

I thought that with the motif the global midi channel options only applies to voice and perfomance modes. The midi channels are selected on a track by track basis in the 2 sequence modes (pattern & song).
When you are doing this are you in pattern or song mode? Are you using mtc or midi clock?
From my understanding you cannot use mtc with with pattern mode on the motif, only song mode. It will not work.
When you do this do you make any changes in the Session Setup menu on Protools?

[PROPhr34k]

i have a motif Es and PT DIGI002 on a WINxp pc. i would be very intrested ina ll the info i can get and give.