No Korg M50 in DP8!!!

[Clueless-Doofus]

The M50 is one of Korg most popular keyboard workstations over the last 3 years. Despite this fact, DP8 neglects to have the M50 listed under the Korg list in "MIDI device properties"!!! MOTU needs to correct this oversight promptly in the next update of DP8!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

This should answer you question as posted in four different threads...

The Apple Audio/MIDI setup doesn't list the M50 and I believe that is where the link is broken. If the OS doesn't see it available for CoreMIDI, the DAW won't see it for use in the DAW.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov08/a ... s_1108.htm

I've had this problem with keyboards and mixers before and the best you can hope for is it will be added at some point by Apple in cooperation with Korg.

In the mean time, you can create a "dummy" device and at least access it for sequencing.

Here's a more detailed explanation:

DP uses the setup you've defined in OS X's Audio MIDI Setup application to determine which MIDI devices it can use, so in order for it to communicate correctly with any hardware synth or other devices in your studio, it's essential to get things properly configured here.

Actually, compared to OS9 FreeMIDI and OMS systems, there's not that much tweaking you can do in Audio MIDI Setup, besides selecting a Manufacturer and Model for your MIDI devices, choosing the channels they transmit and receive on, then drawing in the symbolic connections between them and your MIDI interface. All the 'under the bonnet' MIDI settings, as well as patch list information, comes from the 'middev' and 'midnam' files in [hard drive]/Library/Audio/MIDI Devices/MOTU that you never need to deal with directly.

Audio MIDI Setup's simplicity is all very well as long as you're using mainstream synths and factory presets, but what if you have a more unusual, unsupported synth, or have spent time perfecting your own banks of patches, or have even loaded in banks from elsewhere or from expansion cards? Well, if you want custom patch lists, or need to send precise bank-change and program-change messages to an unusual synth, check out Cherrypicker. This is an all-singing, all-dancing application for creating, converting, adapting and saving patch lists and other MIDI-related information in OS X. It can open patch lists in a variety of different formats (even those from OS 9 days, and from the PC platform) and also translate between the slightly varying 'midnam' patch list formats used by DP, Pro Tools and Cubase. It can also edit and create 'middev' files, which are the files DP uses to determine the basic capabilities and compatibility of individual MIDI devices. If you really want to take control of your MIDI setup, or solve an annoying bank-select problem (for example), the donation-ware Cherrypicker is a must. It's downloadable from http://www.alterspective.com/cherrypicker and has superb documentation.

from here:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec05/a ... rnotes.htm


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[Clueless-Doofus]

This should answer you question as posted in four different threads...

The Apple Audio/MIDI setup doesn't list the M50 and I believe that is where the link is broken. If the OS doesn't see it available for CoreMIDI, the DAW won't see it for use in the DAW.
<--- "It's not my fault!"

Ok so if you're correct, why is it that my M50 appears in the Audio/MIDI setup under Mac OS X 10.6.8 but yet DP8 can't see it? I'm confused.

[HCMarkus]

Cherry Picker is your friend. It will run under 10.6.8 with Rosetta; not sure if it is still viable under the more current OS versions. I used it to help me properly set up the patch list for my Yamaha S90ES. I think I found the S90ES patch list on the web somewhere... I bet the one you seek is out there, too. Good luck!

[David Polich]

Wow, you posted about this in 4 different threads? Geez.

Yes, the solution is so simple. Create a new device in Audio MIDI Setup.
Name it "Korg M50". Set it to transmit and receive on all 16 MIDI channels.
Close Audio MIDI Setup.

Now when you next open DP8, it will be there, both as a transmitting device
and a receiving one.