I have a Motif 6 and I'm trying to connect it to my Mac Book Pro and use it with Logic Pro 9 and I can't get them to work together, the youtube videos are not working for me, can anyone point me in the right direction?

If you are using audio instruments, you do not need to re-assign the track.

I understand the issue because i have the same thing myself. I have a motif 6 and I want to play the motif 6 so it records midi notes in logic. then, when the notes are recorded I want it to play back the notes on the motif 6. there is so much weird stuff going on with loud hi pitched noises and feedback, it doesnt seem to work. the clocks are weird, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. it seems there must be some setting with the motif 6 like local on or off? or midi thru? or some thing like that but its a very complex keyboard to sort out. i think the issue lies with the keyboard prefs and not logic, certainly in my case it is.

I havent come up with a solution yet but I will.

dunnery wrote:

I understand the issue because i have the same thing myself. I have a motif 6 and I want to play the motif 6 so it records midi notes in logic. then, when the notes are recorded I want it to play back the notes on the motif 6. there is so much weird stuff going on with loud hi pitched noises and feedback, it doesnt seem to work. the clocks are weird, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. it seems there must be some setting with the motif 6 like local on or off? or midi thru? or some thing like that but its a very complex keyboard to sort out. i think the issue lies with the keyboard prefs and not logic, certainly in my case it is.

I havent come up with a solution yet but I will.

At least you're determined to find a solution.

Here's the thing, Logic will do exactly as you described, it will record MIDI notes and then play back the notes to the Motif 6 thus generating sound out of the Motif's audio outputs.

Logic has worked like this from the very beginning, I've used Logic for years with a large bank of external keyboards and MIDI Modules, this in fact how Logic was designed from the very beginning, long before being purchased by Apple at version 5 of the software.

Logic is not your typical Apple application, you actually have to know what you're doing, at least to a certain extent, Logic is not a hand holder, it demands the user educate themselves, in my opinion that's the way professional software and hardware should work.

So, learn about the Motif, read and learn about Logic, I know everyone hates reading these days but the manuals provide valuable insight that no video tutorial can possibly show.

Just remember that MIDI is a data protocol, it has nothing to do with audio other than MIDI notes and controller data can trigger external MIDI keyboards and modules as well as drive internal virtual instruments. With external instruments like the Motif, audio will come from the motif's audio outputs.

The high pitched sound is probably the Mac's internal Mic which means you don't have Logic's audio preferences set correctly.

Read, read read, learn learn learn.

pancenter-

One other thing...

The Motif 6 has two available MIDI connection... USB to Host and the old school MIDI IN/OUT/THRU.

Only one of them should be used at a time.

Looks like pages 107 - 111 of the Motif manual are relevant.

pancenter-

Hey James. I might have a solution for you. Press Utility on your Motif, then go to Midi by pressing f5, go to other by pressing SF4. Your MIDI IN/OUT should be set to USB. It should be working from there. Hope it helped

Addi11234,

Hopefully James already found a solution to his issue as he last posted about it in 2011, some 3 years ago................

However, maybe it will help someone else with a similar issue....

Cheers..

Nigel