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I thinnk oscwilde is on the right track here. The Launchkey mk3 uses Mackie Control and Mackie HUI protocols in some mode (as do many other controllers). Those two protocols send note messages as control commands. Since Logic defaults to recording MIDI from any input channel it’s possible for it to pick up Mackie commands and record them as actual notes. For example: C0 maps to “solo channel 5" C6 maps to “return to zero" Can you see the notes in the event list? What channel(s) are they arriving on?

We have a winner! Thx, Gacki. As you can see in my initial screenshots, I was using an External Instrument track. I had an External MIDI/Audio track pair set up as well, but I didn't try using them instead. As soon as I did, everything worked fine.

The sysex messages are single messages, not a long stream. It’s not a patch data dump (there is no patch memory), it’s messages to configure the pitch bend range (0-12) and the autoglide range (0-24). For some reason, these can not be set from the front panel of the synth while most of the settings like key tracking, LFO clock sync, envelope retrigger mode, etc. can be. Otherwise I wouldn't even be messing around with the sysex. I captured the sysex using MIDI Monitor. Double clicking on the message opens up an inspector window that allows saving the contents in .syx format. I then loaded that file into Sysex Librarian which can convert and export it as a .mid file. I sent the sysex files direct to the Behringer synth from Sysex Librarian. I then sent the MIDI files using Sweet MIDI Player Pro and that worked. The two files in the “recently played” pane are the same two I imported into Logic for setting the pitch bend range. When the regions are played by Logic,MIDI Monitor shows nothing being sent. It does see the MIDI clock messages. I have a workaround but it would be nice if Logic would send the sysex. That way the settings of the synth are saved in the project itself.

I should have known better than to buy a hardware synth after 7 years without one, but I did. I want to send sysex to it and have created a sysex file that SysEx Librarian can send to the synth fine. Then I used SysEx Librarian to convert it to a MIDI file. I imported the .mid file into an app called Sweet MIDI Player Pro and that works fine. When I import the .mid file into Logic, I can see the sysex data in the event list but nothing is sent out. I confirmed this using MIDI Monitor, all I see are MIDI clock messages (clock, SPP, continue). If I play my keyboard the synth responds and I see the notes in MIDI Monitor. What’s going on here? Screenshots:

I have a MOTU M2 (USB 2.0) and I’ve also had issues with it not outputting audio. Usually it happens when I open up a project. I sometimes have to reboot the M2 and in some cases close Logic and reopen it as well. It simply doesn’t pass audio (nothing shown on the M2 meters) although Logic’s meters show signal. Now and then I've had it go south in the middle of a session but that’s much more rare. This has happened since Logic 10.4 (now on 10.7.9) with both a 2011 iMac and now with an M1 Macbook Air and with OSes from El Capitan to Monterey. I haven’t bothered to contact MOTU support about it but I’m not running a pro studio.

Select a software instrument track (what instrument doesn’t matter) and record a few bars while moving the sliders. Don’t play any notes! Open up the event editor and it will show you what CCs it sends. I’m pretty sure it will be CC 7 and CC 10. Then let us know if this is what you are seeing, post a sceenshot.

Modulation is CC1. What you did is MIDI Learn whatever CC the unit is sending from that fader to the Modulation parameter of your plugin. However it seems that your unit is sending CC7 (volume) and CC10 (pan) which gets intercepted by the channel strip even as they are mapped to parameters in the plugin. List of MIDI CCs here (not all manufacturers honor these assignments, however)

Looked up that controller and it appears it’s made by hand by a small shop in Malta. I googled for “Dash XP" but found nothing except sunglasses 😉 and the text at Etsy simply states it’s “plug and play” but doesn’t explain what messages it can send. Did it come with any instructions?

Also check to see if your controller allows assigning what CCs it sends (most do). Then just assign them to the CCs you want. Mod wheel CC1 and expression pedal CC 11 are what most sample libraries use.

Channel Pressure = regular aftertouch (this is what I see in your screenshot) Key Pressure = polyphonic aftertouch MPE is not the same thing as poly AT. It puts each note on a different MIDI channel, where poly AT has all notes on the same channel.

Here's the link to older Nektarine documentation (v2.5.83 from March 2023, my account shows the latest is 2.5.99, your Beta is probably newer than that as well) that you can look at. It shows how the software works with the Nektar keyboard controllers so it will not cover how it might work with the CS12 but it might help you get up to speed on the basic concepts of how it handles instruments.

If the other person can read music notation, try using the score editor to print out what you have played.

I went to create my first song with Suno and got an error message that due to high usage only paid subscribers can currently generate songs. Strike one...

The 4 input ports are normal. Each corresponds to the mode of the same name on the device itself.

Are you somehow playing them directly from OneDrive or loading them from OneDrive into an app like you do on the Windows PC?