SimooL Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Hello and thank you for trying to help me solve this issue. Two issues to tackle: I just bought the M audio hammer Pro 88 and I want to use that as a controller in my DAW which is Logic. It is powered by USB but I am also running the MIDI OUT to a MIDI interface. I also have other external synthesizers routed to this MIDI interface and have had zero problems with triggering MIDI or getting any of the keyboards to talk to each other so no issue there. M audio has a link to set up your “hammer pro” in logic. I went step by step to achieve this and have had no luck. I want to be able to start, stop, record, etc from the M audio controller. Apparently there are so many cool parameters embedded in a controller where you can work strictly from there without having to click around on your mouse I want to be able to do that. I have gone to Preferences>Controllers and have set up the M audio to act as a controller and again have done all of this ... https://inmusicbrands.force.com/headrush/s/article/M-Audio-Hammer-88-Pro-Series-Setup-in-Logic The hammer pro has an option from the keyboard to dial in what DAW you are using and I have that set to logic as well. My next issue is the MOTU 828k audio interface. I have a keyboard routed from it’s audio outputs (L MONO-R) into channels one and two on the audio interface. The Cue Mix window shows that there is signal coming in on tracks 1 &2. If you select an External Instrument in Logic and Assign its MIDI port and the input (1&2) there is no signal coming in on that fader in logic. But if you select input 3&4 you will see the meter read the signal. So I unplugged the channels 1&2 from Audio Interface and into Ch: 3&4. I assigned the inputs to 3&4 on the External instrument, no signal. so I clicked the inputs to 5&6 ...and of course there’s now signal as demonstrated in the 1-2 switch to 3-4 excerpt listed above. Put simply, you can plug the keyboard into 11-12 and set the external instrument input to 13-14 and there will be signal, it keeps jumping two channels up. I have figured out a way to “live with it” and having stumbled on this link makes me feel like others are having this issue with this device. https://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44095 if you made it this far thank you for reading and attempting to help solve this issue. I hope someone out there can help me achieve this thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gacki Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 I think what Logic sees as Input 1+2 are the two XLR inputs. Consequently it sees Line inputs 1-2 on the MotU as Input 3+4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimooL Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 Gacki, That could be possible but I don’t think it is. The back of the MOTU has “main outs” and that’s where the monitors are plugged into. The front of the MOTU has two inputs with phantom power and pad. Those are considered Mic/Line Ch:1&2 I have plugged a mic in there many times to record Vocals and didn’t run into any issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gacki Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Gacki,That could be possible but I don’t think it is. The back of the MOTU has “main outs” and that’s where the monitors are plugged into. The front of the MOTU has two inputs with phantom power and pad. Those are considered Mic/Line Ch:1&2 I have plugged a mic in there many times to record Vocals and didn’t run into any issue. The monitors have nothing to do with this (that's another can of worms with the 828). I'm assuming at the moment you have plugged the synth into Line inputs 1 and 2 on the MotU which are also on the back (since those are Line signals). Those would show up as Inputs 3-4 in Logic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimooL Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 My misunderstanding. When you said “xlr” my brain immediately thought of the monitors since they are plugged via XLR in the back of MOTU. Like I said, I found another article in regards to this issue where others experienced something similar. Do you have any suggestions to this? and any feedback on the MIDI controller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gacki Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 My misunderstanding. When you said “xlr” my brain immediately thought of the monitors since they are plugged via XLR in the back of MOTU.Like I said, I found another article in regards to this issue where others experienced something similar. Do you have any suggestions to this? https://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44095 says exactly the same as I did... You can create individual labels for the inputs in Logic so the difference between the front inputs and the back inputs becomes more clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimooL Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 Yea I’ve read that. I posted it in my original thread. Like I said, I’ve had this issue for over 8yrs but wanted to see if someone could solve the issue. Now I have to tackle the Controller... Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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