Help getting Logic to pass System Exclusive messages.

Hi. I am attempting to integrate a new hardware synth into my setup. It's a Roland Alpha Juno 2. My goal is to ultimately program the synth via Logic. However, despite being able to record SysEx data to a midi track, I can't get Logic to pass that information through.

 

My setup is a late 2013 iMac running Mavericks, Logic Pro X, and a Roland Octa-Capture audio/midi interface. I am also using an iPad with MidiDesigner to control the Alpha Juno 2--it's the source of the SysEx messages.

 

With the Juno routed to an audio channel, and a External midi channel set to the appropriate channel. I can easily send note data to the synth via the iPad or the Musical Typing on screen keyboard. I can also record SysEx data to a midi track, which appears as "xxx"s in the midi pattern, and shows in the events list. But this SysEx will not pass through to my Synth, which I determined by routing the output of my record midi track to a program called Midi Monitor. Only notes are sent, even though the events lists show many, many SysEx events. Logic even identifies the events as Roland format.

 

Any thoughts? I have "SysEx with MIDI Thru function" clicked, but it makes no difference at all. Of course, I have System Exclusive messages turned on in my Synth's menu, and I can control it directly with my iPad--just not through logic. Any help is appreciated.

Have you check in the Environment?

I don't know what I've done to deserve such a terse response, when others seem to get extensive help. Oh well, I figured it out on my own.

I don't know what I've done to deserve such a terse response, when others seem to get extensive help.

 

Apparently nobody had a better answer. It can happen sometimes.

 

Can you please share with us how you solved the problem? It could help others having the same problem.

 

Thanks!

 

J.

I don't know what I've done to deserve such a terse response, when others seem to get extensive help. Oh well, I figured it out on my own.

Sorry... I did'nt mean to be blunt.

If you check at my post you will notice that the word "Environment" was in fact a link pointing at the documentation regarding a potential solution to your issue...

I wonder what the solution was. I'm running into the exact issue. Same synth even. Alpha Juno1 though.

My solution for this is using a Midi Instrument object in the environment to send sysex to my external synths. I have a couple of templates for my RemoteSL that send sysex to external synths and what I've done is cabled from a monitor to the specific midi instrument object. Channels aren't an issue since I have each external keyboard on a different channel and the sysex string by it's very nature is channel specific.

My solution for this is using a Midi Instrument object in the environment to send sysex to my external synths. I have a couple of templates for my RemoteSL that send sysex to external synths and what I've done is cabled from a monitor to the specific midi instrument object. Channels aren't an issue since I have each external keyboard on a different channel and the sysex string by it's very nature is channel specific.

 

Thanks, I'll give it shot.

Ok, I was able to transmit sysex through logic and adjust the external hardware. Sweet. Now I'm having issues fetching the patch data from the ext gear through logic to the iPad. I've been fiddling for a bit and will come back to it later.