Hi Folks,

Really ripping my hair out on this one....I can switch off local and
still get sound on my audio mixer , I just can't get MIDI input to
register on the midi track's v/u meter....or to record, for that
matter.

Having finally gotten to grips with the audio basics, I am moving on
and trying to record MIDI using Protools LE 6.1 and a Digi001 on a
Windows XP machine.

I'm not doing anything fancy - just hooking up my MIDI keyboard to the
system, like I have countless times before while using Cubase and my
old AWE 64 Gold Soundcard and various other systems / configurations /
studios.

I've tried setting the MIDI input / output channels on the midi track
in Protools to eah of the 16 channels, and none register on the
channel. I cannot record midi.

I know that there is some form of midi signal going through the device
as when I hook up my midi leads in the correct way I can swith "local"
off on the midi keyboard and still get sound from the connected mixer.
So the MIDI port itself does not appear to be physically broken.

Furthermore, if I open up a midi file in Protools and play it back to
the available PC soundcard's midi channels (rather than the Digi001's)
, the music can be heard in all it's cheesey GM glory.

This leads me to believe that it's the *software* that cannot see the
MIDI.

I've checked the MIDI input filter on Protools, and all the relevant
boxes are ticked to allow the system to see all types of midi events -
note on/off, controller data, sysex, etc etc... So nothing wrong
there.

I have set the default MIDI channel on Protools to be the Digi001's
channel 1 - same as for the midi keyboard.

At this stage I come to the end of what I can think of.

And yes, before you ask, I've read the manual.

I know that on the Mac version there is an option to set up specific
MIDI input devices - but this feature is not on the PC version.

(p.s. thanks for all the groups previous advice that got me sorted
with my Protools system in the first place!)

Thanks for reading this far!

Dave Mc G

In the Pro Tools' MIDI menu.. do you have MIDI Thru enabled?

Rail
--
Recording Engineer/Software Developer
Rail Jon Rogut Software
http://home.earthlink.net/~railro

Your checklist included everything I would have thought of too. Try posting
your question at digidesign's user conference board. There's a Windows-specific
section there.
You can also call Digi and get free tech support if you bought your gear new
in the last 90 (IIRC) days.


Ted Spencer, NYC

"No amount of classical training will ever teach you what's so cool about
"Tighten Up" by Archie Bell And The Drells" -author unknown

Make sure the track you are going to record on is record-enabled.

Yep - I do have MIDI through enabled.

Yes - it's record enabled.

Well, which Digi hardware do you have and which version of Pro Tools are you
running?

If you have an 002 and your 002's ports aren't showing up while running
6.1 - then either upgrade to 6.1.1 or use my utility which you can download
he http://home.earthlink.net/~railro/002%20_Startup.zip to start Pro
Tools.

Rail
--
Recording Engineer/Software Developer
Rail Jon Rogut Software
http://home.earthlink.net/~railro


"clippy" wrote in message
om...
Yep - I do have MIDI through enabled.

As per my original posting,

I'm running LE 6.1 with a Didi001 on a windows XP machine.