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Never mind, just found the answer! Preferences - Display - Display Middle C as C4 (Roland). Geez.

Hi, I am sorry if this question has been asked before but when I searched the forum I could not find the answer. I have also searched my Logic Pro X documentation and if the answer is in there, I'm sorry but I could not find it. This has to be a simple problem to solve but it's hurting my brain... On every single MIDI device I have, there is exactly an octave difference between the note message that the device is sending and the note message received by Logic Pro X. For example... on my Akai MPD218 drum machine, pad #1 is set (on the device) to transmit B1 (B one) but Logic Pro X "reads" the incoming MIDI message as B0 (B zero). The same is true on my Korg N1 keyboard. It's a full sized 88 key keyboard. Middle C is C4. The keyboard is transmitting "C4" but Logic Pro X "reads" the incoming note message as "C3". How do I correct this in Logic Pro X? I assume there is a setting somewhere to "tell it" I'm using an 88 key keyboard, but where that is, I can't figure out... Any help greatly appreciated. Please don't be snarky if the answer is simple and already in the documentation somewhere. I did look. Just couldn't find it. Andrea

I think I may have found the answer, although I'm not going to test it until I've finished the MIDI course later today. The Korg N1 and N1R (the rack version) has different PC Interface to Port settings. Meaning, from the computer to the various ports on the Korg. I had no idea. It can be set to Native or Emulate. In Native mode, according to the documentation, when the N1 receives a Line Control signal over a MIDI cable from the Mac, it routes the signal to the Channel Select port in the Korg. The player must then select, on the Korg, which channel to use. In Emulate mode, the Channel Select port in the Korg is bypassed. Again, this manual is horribly organized and difficult to navigate, which is why I never really read the whole thing. Plus I got the N1 used, and it has taken quite a bit of time to reconfigure it the way I want. But I think that's where the answer is. We'll see. Again, sorry this really has nothing to do with Logic. I thought, initially, that it did. But thanks for your patience.

I also wanted to let you know I've decided to go back and re-take the entire MIDI Demystified course in macprovideo.com. I took it once before a long time ago but I've clearly forgotten most of what he taught in terms of external midi... It's interesting to note that even though MIDI Demystified is not a Logic Pro course, the plug-ins that Steve H uses to demonstrate software MIDI are Logic Pro plug-ins - specifically EXS-24. It was nice to see a screenshot of something I know very well - the EXS-24 gui

OMG - you are going to think I'm such a dumbass doofus - I know I do! I'm actually in the middle of an advanced MIDI class on macprovideo and I just realized in the middle of a lecture that I had local control on... sort of complicates everything unnecessarily. I'm used to practicing offline, when the computer is off, and I'd forgotten ALL ALONG - during all of my posts and replies - that I still had local control on... I have to remind myself now, I guess, to turn local control off when I'm in my DAW and turn it back on again when I'm offline!!! God I feel so stupid! Thanks for being patient with me.

I’ve already described what I’m trying to do and you say it’s not possible so end of discussion. Anyway this is turning into something that doesn’t really involve LPX so I give up. I know what Multi Mode is.

Something similar happened to me after installing soundflower. Soundlower can be difficult to completely get rid of. I had to do what triplets suggested and that got rid of it and resolved my problem. If you need something to route sound for apps like Quicktime screen recording, I had no problem with “i show u audio capture”. After you install it, create an aggregate instrument in audio midi setup (there’s a youtube videp that shows how to do that). Pick your aggregate instrument in quicktime when recording things there, and pick your audio interface when using LPX.

No. I’m about ready to give up and chalk this up to impossible. Since MIDI gear receives and sends program, bank, velocity, note change messages, it ought to be able to send and receive channel change messages too but I’m beginning to think that’s just not possible. All I need is for, when I select an ext midi track (pretty much all I do anyway) in Logic, I need my Korg N1 to respond by switching to the correct channel. I can always do it manually like I do now but it’d be a lot more convenient for the Korg to do it in response to a command from Logic (like it does for program, bank, velocity, note change, etc...) bc I do all my effects editing on the Korg. I record what I want into Logic and throw a little compression/eq on it from Ligic but for panning, other audio effects, and MIDI editing, I do 99% of that on the Korg. Otherwise my ancient Mac Mini would be full of beach balls . If I ever work this out - maybe with a transformer and a new instrument in the Environment; I don’t know - I’ll post the answer here, thanks for trying though.

I can’t read the language on your screenshots, but the version of Logic you appear to be trying to install does not appear to be Logic Pro X. If you really need to install an earlier version of Logic, you may need to roll back your OS. I would just go ahead and install LPX.

I need to be able to set the MIDI channel on the KORG from Logic Pro X... and still don't know how to do that

When I update, it replaces the old version. I would only use the newest version of LPX. I run LPX on a mac mini that I normally don’t update at all except I do update LPX. I never have any problems opening or editing projects that were created in earlier versions of Logic.

I would update. I run LPX on a mac mini that I normally don’t update at all except I do update LPX. I never have any problems opening or editing projects that were created in earlier versions of Logic.

Thanks. I’ll have a go at it again Friday. I found the manual archaic and not organized very well, and didnt get much out of it the first time. As far as why I do things the way I do, I find that question a bit off putting. Why do you use the workflow you do? The “why” doesn’t matter but since you asked, I’ll answer. My mac is old and has limited cpu resources. It’s not upgradeable. When editing or mixing in LPX I need to stay away from cpu intensive software effects. I use the audio effects and MIDI editing tools already onboard the Korg. So when I’m listening to a project in LPX if I hear something not quite right, I want to just select the track in LPX then go right to the Korg and have it be on the correct channel so I can do my editing on the Korg.

What I want to be able to do is, when I open any project in LPX (they're all external MIDI projects, for the most part anyway) and start adding external MIDI tracks, I need LPX to send a channel change message to my Korg when I add a new external midi track. For example, when I add a new external MIDI track in LPX and assign it to channel 2, I need LPX to send a channel change message to the Korg to switch to MIDI channel 2. I know how to send bank and patch change messages... but that only changes the bank and patches on whatever channel I've manually selected on the Korg. I need to know how to set up LPX to send a channel change message to the Korg. Looking at LPX, the last track is another external MIDI on channel 2. It's a Stax Hammond B3 organ patch on the Korg. When I click on that track in LPX I need LPX to send a channel change message to the Korg to switch to Channel 2. I can send bank and patch change messages but I don't know how to send channel change messages. Could I be confusing "channel" with "program"? Do I need to learn how to send a "program change" message? Maybe that's it. I think something else I need to remember is the Korg N1 is a multitimbral instrument. When I click on the last track I need LPX to send a channel/program change message to the Korg to change it to channel 2. The second screenshot shows what my Korg looks like with Channel 2 (Korg calls it "P02" but that's CHANNEL 2) and the correct patch. The problem is I have to manually switch the Korg to Channel 2. After I manually switch the Korg to Channel 2 or whatever channel I'm working on, I have no problem using LPX to send bank and patch change messages. I want LPX to send a channel change message automatically when I add a new track assigned to a specific channel or when I click on an existing track to edit it. .

I have an older mac mini that is maxed out at 16gb ram and I get around that by using LPX completely from an external hard drive. All my samples and stuff are on the external hard drive too. All my gear is connected as External MIDI and I use all the audio and MIDI effects on my Korg synth. I do have audio channels for guitar, and those are the only tracks that require much cpu power after I throw some EQ and compression on them. All the effects processing on the ext midi tracks is done by my Korg N1. Ancient but lovely keyboard!