Kurzweil Midi Parameters

rziesing wrote:
When I try to add my Kurzweil K2500X to Logic, it sees no drivers for the keyboard comes up with only one manufacturer...How do I get the drivers for other manufacturers into the Apple Midi Setup area>

Hi, You need to make sure you have compatible drivers for your particular Mac OS operating system. Please ask Kurzweil for those.

Cheers

Hi!
I have a K2500 also, and no, you do not get patch names and all. The Audio/MIDI setup is part of the OS, while Logic is not.

I would search, and ask, for a K2500 Environment. If someone made one well, it should have the factory/default patch names already in there. There are many synths that do not have patch lists and stuff. Usually someone will either spend the time manually entering it all, or use an editor/librarian app to "grab" the patch list(s) form the synth, and then copy/paste into Logic in the appropriate place.

as an alternative, if you have system wide .midinam file installed by MOTU, you can fairly easily convert those to a format that can be pasted into logic. Use the freeware app "Cherrypicker" Get it here:

http://www.alterspective.com/cherrypicker/

And finally file a bug report with apple that their flagship MIDI application, doesn't support the standard core midi patch naming files. Maybe some day they'll get around to it.

Geof

I also have a K2500 - love it. And I can email you a Logic multi-instrument with patch names if you tell me where.

But I find it amazing that after all these years, the same people who programmed Sound Diver haven't included some kind of basic facility for Logic to get patch names from MIDI gear. Sound Diver had drivers and protocols for hundreds of MIDI devices - yet they seem to have chosen to do everything they can to discourage MIDI users, and push soft-synths. No MIDI patches, no plugin delay comp for MIDI, and no more Sound Diver. It's especially sad for a program like Logic which started out long ago as the undisputed 'king' of MIDI recording and sequencing. Ah well.

rziesing wrote:
did check....kurzweil lists NO drivers.
MOTU easily found my keyboard and integrated it, patch names and all.

Indeed. These are NOT drivers but simply bank and patch lists. Here's what you need:

http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=13786