paulkreuzer Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 (edited) Hello, I'm new to the forum, so here is a little introduction: I'm what you can call a total noob, I have logic, but am still using garageband more, because i understand it better, i have a roland hpd 15 wich i want to use as a midi instrument but know nothing about midi exept what i know from some youtube videos i don't know much about the music-language (like samplerate, ...) and english is not my mother tongue, so please talk to me like to a child. now to my problem: I want to connect my roland hpd 15 to logic with a midi to usb cable. The problem is that playing my HPD doesn't record Midi notes in my midi track, but only 'x'es appear and neither the roland nor logic can produce sounds out of these. If I create midi notes with my macbook keyboard thou, the hpd can play them. I wrote a mail to roald and but they explained that my settings on the hpd are correct and that the problem is with logic. what can i do? [solved] Midi Cable was defective. Edited February 21, 2012 by paulkreuzer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 X's show up on midi track while recording Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulkreuzer Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 X's show up on midi track while recording well that explains what theese Xes are, but I still don't know what to do with them. Can I convert them into Midi Notes somehow? One guy in that post said that these Xes can be deleted after recording, but if I do that I recorded an empty track, with no midi notes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 What you really want to do is troubleshoot your HPD15 to make sure it sends MIDI notes, and not sysex data. Refer to your HPD15 manual, or call Roland support, or if you're desperate to make it work quickly, see in the manual if it has some sort of "factory reset" procedure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulkreuzer Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 So you are saying that Logic cant make any use of sysex? because when I wrote to roland support they answered that logic should be able to change the 'x'es to midi notes. I now reset the hpd to factory settings, but still it's sending sysex. could it be the cable? (I got it from ebay for about 6$) i searched the hpd manual pdf for the word sysex and there were 0 hits. and i read everything in it related to midi, but there was nothing that could help me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cardenas Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 i searched the hpd manual pdf for the word sysex and there were 0 hits. and i read everything in it related to midi, but there was nothing that could help me. Search for "System Exclusive" instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulkreuzer Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Ok I searched for System Exclusive and found this: Following System Exclusive Messages cannot be recorded.F0H ii = ID number dd,..., ee = data F7H The System Exclusive Messages received by the normal mode of HPD-15 are; Universal Non-realtime System Exclusive Messages, Data Requests (RQ1), and Data Set (DT1). didn't really understand a word of that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 So you are saying that Logic cant make any use of sysex? No, I did not say that. What I said is that you should configure your MIDI controller to send MIDI notes and not system exclusive events. Basically, make sure your controller sends the correct events in the first place, rather than have Logic translate wrong events back into correct ones. In your HPD15 manual, go to page 85: Restoring the Factory Settings. Then the pads should send MIDI notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulkreuzer Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 In your HPD15 manual, go to page 85: Restoring the Factory Settings. Then the pads should send MIDI notes. Like I said, I allready did that and its still not sending MIDI notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Like I said, I allready did that and its still not sending MIDI notes. Sorry I missed it when you said that. Contact Roland again. I'm fairly sure that after a factory reset it should be sending MIDI Note events, not system exclusive events. Or if you want follow the procedure detailed in the manual to program which MIDI note is sent by each individual pad. There's a section called "Using the HPD15 with external MIDI devices" or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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