Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject: mbox set up help please ...on G4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- hi lads I've just got my mbox and can get the nice audio sound but no midi , now remember I'm new to this , my set up before the mbox was midi controller out - edirol midi interface in - edirol midi interface out - KAWAI K1r midi in - KAWAI K1r phones out - G4 mic in G4 speakers out - speakers when I go into the midi set up in the G4 I have a new midi device but with a big red qustion mark ? any ideas where i'm going wrong ? thanks ro

On 1-apr-04 rosie_finnegan wrote: > hi lads > I've just got my mbox and can get the nice audio sound but no midi , > now remember I'm new to this , my set up before the mbox was > midi controller out - > edirol midi interface in - > edirol midi interface out - > KAWAI K1r midi in - > KAWAI K1r phones out - > G4 mic in > G4 speakers out - > speakers > > when I go into the midi set up in the G4 I have a new midi device but > with a big red qustion mark ? > any ideas where i'm going wrong ? > First off all, Mbox doesn't have midi capabilities so your midi problem has nothing to do with Mbox itself. I have an Mbox and a Emagic MT4 myself and then work beautifully side by side. First thing you might probably wanna try is checking your midi cables and see if the midi interface has power. Then check with your synth or whatever thats hooked up if the interface recieves signal via a midi in port. If that all works then you should have midi in capabilities into Logic Still a no go? Maybe its the driver for your midi interface?! Try reinstalling them, that should probably fix it. This is all the help i can give you since i never had any midi problems. It just always worked fine by me from the first time on, that as a sidenote. But nine out of ten problems with midi I/O i ever heard of are due to bad cabling, corrupted drivers and even forgetting to turn on the power. About the new midi device with the big red question mark on it, beats me! I have it to since i hooked up my Mbox. I never really asked myself the question what it was for because everything was working fine so i didn't bother to look up what it really is. There's one thing i can say about it, it's something from Digidesign! :-) but what the freak it is? I honestly don't know! A small guess of mine is that it has something to do with the Digidesign coreaudio driver or in any way a Digidesign related software component, since this is the same driver that all the Digidesign interfaces use for coreaudio and coremidi applications. For instance, the Digi 001 and the Digi 002/rack, they have midi capabilities. That would somehow explain that new midi device. Since it is ridicules to write a different driver for every interface if you can pack a driver for all the interfaces at once. The big red question mark? Sort of like, the driver is installed but there's no hardware or can't find the midi hardware. Again, this is pure guessing. So if someone really knows what its for, could you please explain it? Greetz, JanG