How to Import Yamaha Motif XS 8 Patch Names into Logic?

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How to Import Yamaha Motif XS 8 Patch Names into Logic?

Hello -

I am a new user of MAC plus Logic. I just installed Logic Studio with Apogee ensemble. The virtual instruments are working great and I am able to browse the patch names by banks and catagories. Just downloaded a logic patch file from yamaha site for my Motif XS 8 Synthesizer. The has a .LSO extention. When I click on the file, the logic environment window opens up and I can see the patches. How do I import these patches into my project environment.

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.

IMAC, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jan 4, 2008 1:38 PM

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Bee Jay

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Jan 4, 2008 10:04 PM in response to Reza khan

Copy from the source song, paste into the destination song.

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Reza khan Author

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Jan 5, 2008 7:10 AM in response to Bee Jay

Thanks for the information. I am not sure what do you mean by copy from the source song. What am I copying and where do I paste the patches? I am very new to logic. I am a seasoned Pro tools user and know exactly how to do this in protools.

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Bee Jay

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Jan 5, 2008 7:42 AM in response to Reza khan

Open up the source song, the one you downloaded with the environment (old Logic songs were *.lso files).

You'll probably see an environment window, showing a multiinstrument - it's this that has the bank messages and the patch names defined.

Select the multiinstrument, and edit -> copy.

Now close that song.

Open up your default startup template song (the "destination" song), open the environment on a layer of your choosing, and select edit -> paste, to paste that multi-instrument into the environment of this song.

Change the MIDI port on that multi-instrument so it's sending to the port your hardware is connected to. Close the environment window, and resave the song as your startup template.

(You may wish to preassign the 16 multi-instrument sub MIDI channels to arrange tracks if you are regularly sequencing them, to save time so these are already assigned to tracks when you start.)

Now for every song you start, it will have your setup for the Motif.

Does that help?

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Mar 28, 2008 2:17 AM in response to Reza khan

Can you give me the link of yamaha motif xs, that i can download the patch for Logic . Thanks

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