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I have a motif ES6 and I have the .midnam file in my MOTU folder in the MIDI device folder. Unfortunately I am not getting the patch names, only the Patch 0 - 127. Does anyone have any htoughts on how I could corrcet this? I am on a Mac G5 by the way.

Thanks.

All that you need these days is to have your Motif ES 6 added as a device in Audio MIDI Setup. Digital Performer then finds the patch names automatically, when you select Motif->Channel1/etc. for the Output destination of a MIDI track.

Rather than waste time instructing how to add a device in Audio MIDI Setup, I'll wait first to see if you already know how to do that. I am assuming for the moment that you simply weren't aware that the whole ballgame has changed since Apple added Core MIDI support a year or so ago to OS X.

The same thing happened with my motif rack. What I did was went to the audio/MIDI preferences and removed the motif and created a motif again. It also didn't load my jv1080 expansion cards. Assuming you've loaded dp5 from 4.? Hope that works for you too.

Oh, I thought the patch names were supplied/supported by Apple as part of Core MIDI, not by MOTU. I'll have to check my own MOTU/DP folders then before upgrading to DP5 this weekend, to make sure I don't lose my own Motif ES patch maps.

I deleted the motif from my Audio/MIDI set up in Apple and that did it. Thanks all for the help.

Well, maybe not. It seems that I am now getting general MIDI patch names without all the MOTIF names.

Setup > autoconfigure MIDI devices > start. That works for my Motif Makes a new Motif with all patch names. I end up for some reason with motif 6-1 and motif6-2 and motif 6-3 and motif 6-4. I am connecting through MIDI so I know that I only have 16 channels. My problem is that When I change a patch the other ones change to it but I'll figure this out.

As far as the 1080 is concerned, go to the Motu DPx folder>extras>expansion board setup. Run that tool, setup your cards and there you go!

Marcel