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Add midi controller?

Hey everyone,

I recently picked up Logic Studio and am very excited to get started recording some of my stuff. So I plugged in my Novation Remote 25 LE Midi Keyboard/Controller and it didn't work. I went to Preferences and looked around for an answer on how to add. I got a list of some midi controllers but I have no idea how to get my working with Logic. I'm a novice to the program so any help provided will be helpful. All I want is to be able to control the logic synths with my Novation Remote 25 LE.

Thanks so much,
Henry

Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 8, 2009 7:50 PM

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Bee Jay

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Jun 10, 2009 10:48 AM in response to Bee Jay

Also, try uninstalling the drivers and rebooting.
The 25 LE is class compliant, and you might have clashing drivers....

hiimhenryyy Author

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Jun 10, 2009 10:51 AM in response to Bee Jay

Alright I did like you said.

There isn't a physical switch but inside the menu there are few things that say "USB to Midi Out: On" & "Midi Port: USB Output".

Then I did your second step here is an image:
http://i39.tinypic.com/qsw5rn.png

Playing a few keys changed nothing.

Thanks

hiimhenryyy Author

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Jun 10, 2009 10:55 AM in response to Bee Jay

I just uninstalled and restarted. No difference.

Bee Jay

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Jun 10, 2009 11:49 AM in response to hiimhenryyy

Ok - OSX is definitely not seeing the Remote LE correctly, because it's not creating a virtual MIDI port.

This is the fundamental problem.

Try trashing the Audio MIDI Setup preferences and MIDI cache, rebooting and trying again. The goal is to make that device in the AMS show a MIDI port.

Uninstall/Remove any audio and MIDI drivers you may have installed.

Check and remove:
/Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers/*.plugin

Remove the AMS preferences here:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.AggregateDevices.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist
/Users/ YOU/Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio/AudioMIDISetup.plist
/Users/ YOU*/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.MIDI

Reboot and try again...

hiimhenryyy Author

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Jun 10, 2009 12:08 PM in response to Bee Jay

I did exactly what you said and deleted all of those files, and restarted. I opened up logic, no sound, nothing. It is still showing up in AM Setup. Why is this happening? I have tried like 3 different chords. Do you neeed any screenshots?

Bee Jay

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Jun 10, 2009 12:12 PM in response to hiimhenryyy

Try a different USB port, try a different USB cable, if you're connecting through a hub, go directly into the computer, and power it with an adaptor, rather than the USB port, to see if that makes a difference. Can you try it on a different computer?

Also, create a new user account, and see whether it works in that - you might have something screwy in your user account.

I did exactly what you said and deleted all of those files, and restarted.

And does it show a port in the AMS icon now? Presumably not yet...

Why is this happening?

If I could tell you exactly what's going on and how to fixing, I wouldn't keep asking you to try stuff!

hiimhenryyy Author

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Jun 10, 2009 4:12 PM in response to Bee Jay

None of that worked unfortunately! I'm so lost.

Bee Jay

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Jun 10, 2009 4:18 PM in response to hiimhenryyy

Then contact Novation technical support. Perhaps you have a defective unit...

hiimhenryyy Author

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Jun 10, 2009 5:02 PM in response to Bee Jay

It works on my Windows computer though.

Bee Jay

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Jun 10, 2009 5:14 PM in response to hiimhenryyy

TBH I'm surprised none of the things I suggested you try had any affect.

If you're sure you performed all the suggestions properly, then there's not much else I can suggest - like I say, give tech support a call.

hiimhenryyy Author

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Jun 10, 2009 5:16 PM in response to Bee Jay

there isn't anyway you could connect to my computer and try some stufff? like remote desktop kinda?

that'd be sick.

Caramby

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Jun 11, 2009 4:04 AM in response to hiimhenryyy

Why don't you print out this discussion & have a leisurely read through over a cup of coffee. Perhaps you will find some detail you may have overlooked. I'm sure Bee Jay will have covered every possibility.

Best of luck!

🙂

Eriksimon

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Jun 11, 2009 4:12 AM in response to hiimhenryyy

Hi Henry,

I would be willing to try that, using VNC. Very simple to set up and use. Mail me at artflywork at yahoo dot com if you're interested and I'll explain it further.

regards, Erik.

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