Yamaha Clavinova to Logic Studio... can it be pure n simple?

Pete

Sweet piano!!! Wow, just looked at the UTube demo and that piano sound is nice. I recently resurrected my old Atari Computer to extract all the MIDI performances in Hybrid Arts SMPTETRK from the Atari to my MBP and into Logic. All MIDI nuances including SYSEX data was accurately captured by Logic. So you should have no trouble capturing all aspects of your performance/composition on the CVP409.

You should then be able to edit and tweak your performance while exporting the performance back to the CVP409 acting as an external MIDI sound module and run the analog sounds into a Duet or some other A/D converter.

Not sure though what part of the process you are having trouble with. Could you be more specific? I would recommend you read the following areas of the Logic Manual:

Chapter 10 - p 237 Working With Instruments
Chapter 13 - p 337
Chapter 14 - p 382 Recording On Multiple MIDI Tracks
Chapter 14 - p 383 Filtering MIDI Input
Chapter 26 - p 598 Editing MIDI Automation Data
Chapter 39 - Working In The Environment (make sure you read p. 912 Sequencer Input Object)
Chapter 40 - p. 944 Auto Demix By Channel

I know nobody likes to read the manual but quite frankly there is no way around this for understanding how to work with an external sequencer. I have narrowed it down for you based on many hours of trial and error, frustration, until I too just had to hunker down and read about it.

Once you have read these areas (about an hours worth of reading), come back with any further questions. You CAN do everything you want to do with an external sequencer, it is just slow at first until you understand all the controls.

Best of Luck