New To Midi Help Required

[Impress]

hey there im totaly new to midi but i have a strong hold in reason i just recently went out and bought a simple keyboard the yamaha psr e203 just so i can get a hang of midi controll yet im looking into buying a beter keyboard but i am using a yamaha usb midi interface UX16 to connec the keyboard to my pc im running windows xp i cant wait to get it to work on reason. if any1 can post up a step by step guide on how to set reason and xp up for this keyboard please help thank you and i greatly appreciate all the help

[electro-sexual]

Should be quite simple......then again....could be quite difficult.:o You should just be able to hook up your keyboard once the MIDI interface has been installed. In Reason, you will be able to go into the preferences and select MIDI and there should be a drop down with your MIDI interface as an option. If it doesn't work, let me know.

Take care,

Eddie;)

[Impress]

i did all that i installed the interface drivers and everything but reason doesnt have a drop down for yamaha so yea i added it on my own everythings set up but i cant get any input from the keyboard to reason...is ther something i have to do on the keyboard???
thanks for helping out

[electro-sexual]

You will not have the Yamaha as an option under the MIDI preferences, you will have the MIDI interface as an option. Do you have that? Does your MIDI interface have a light or something that tells you that it's connected to your PC?

[Impress]

yea it lights up and tells me that its connected to the pc but i doesnt receive any input from the keyboard the interface itself is set up properly but reason isnt takeing input from my keyboard thats where im lost :(

[terry]

Impress

In the drop down menu in reason is there a general midi option if so select that for starter. Now i don't know anything about reason. but see if it has midi learn function if it does follow the instructions. Now remember midi is not audio. it is just a set of instructions being set to your daw software IE reason. you have to assign a vst or some sort in order to get any sound out. it should be in your instruction manual or pdf file.

[Impress]

if i do need to use a vst which one and how do i set it up i may sound like a noob but this is totaly new to me for real :(thanks for the help

[terry]

Impress

My bust about the vst. It doesn't matter at this point. you are at this point trying to learn how to set it up. After that you can assign anything. Read your Manuel. Like i said I'm not familiar with reason. also check out this forum


http://www.propellerheads.se/board/user/index.cfm?fuseaction=mainframe

[Impress]

im still stumped any1 with a good hand on reason please help me out thank you

[electro-sexual]

If you have the MIDI interface selected in your MIDI preferences than your MIDI is working. Now you need to go through the motions with your individual modules. For example, create a subtractor and down in your sequencer where it lists the modules on the left, click to the far left hand side of the module. This should give you a small MIDI icon next to the module. When this icon is assigned then the MIDI information will be assigned and you can control that module. If this doesnt work, then I am not sure. You really do need to read the manual a little bit. I've owned and used Reason for 4 years now and I am still finding out new things in the manual.

Eddie

[Impress]

kk i think my midi is working i just donno how to change the modules for example instead of seeing a midi symbol i see a piano keyboard how do i change that???

[Impress]

thanks guys for all the help u gave me it ends up i just had my wires tiwsted lol they wer in the opposite ports lol so yea i had to switch em arnd it works fine now thanks again for helpin me out :)

[electro-sexual]

NO problem ;)