Ableton Setup for Hardware Synth

VinylJunkie

Ok so I bought my first hardware synth a Doepfer Dark Energy 2. Opened it up last night to play around with it (still tired after a weekend in Berlin) an managed to get sound out of the unit through my soundcard into Ableton's external instrument. I now have a constant wave coming into Ableton.

My question is how do I send midi information to the hardware? I have a midi cable connected from the synth to my mac and have can see the unit in the dropdown menu for "midi to". So I have "audio from" - soundcard input & "midi to" - External USB Device.

Note: The synth i connected to a powered USB hub.

Neurojazz

If you hit some keys on the midi device you should see some small squares flashing up top right. If that's good then head to the midi channel you've assigned input and look for the monitoring section (maybe collapsed which you can reveal with the buttons to the far right of mixer)

Click 'In' and that should receive the midi from the controller and send it out to the midi out you've selected.

VinylJunkie

Nice one will give this a try later, if I can't solve it I will spend a bit of time to give a more detailed description of the issue.

VinylJunkie

Tearing my hair out here, what am i doing wrong? I can't get the Doepfer to take the midi signal Im sending it and return a non constant sound.

Neurojazz

VinylJunkie wrote: »

Tearing my hair out here, what am i doing wrong? I can't get the Doepfer to take the midi signal Im sending it and return a non constant sound.

Press the greyed out 1 button at bottom

Neurojazz

Neurojazz wrote: »

Press the greyed out 1 button at bottom

Turn off remote also for the midi controllers also - that's remote sync/tempo etc

Neurojazz

Plus, try another track without the external instrument.

Setup 1 to do the midi and one audio one to capture the sound.

Neurojazz

VinylJunkie wrote: »

Tearing my hair out here, what am i doing wrong? I can't get the Doepfer to take the midi signal Im sending it and return a non constant sound.

In the midi surface etc up top - select the middle column and device there.

You're in 8 so restart it if you've only just plugged the controllers in - don't try and do anything until the lights show up in top right when you play a key on your controller (meaning it's getting in there)

VinylJunkie

Think I got it working.

VinylJunkie

I needed to hold down midi learn on the unit & turn the VCA all the way down.

Beakflakes

Ha:) I'm having similar setup in Ableton fun with the Dark Energy;) That VCO all the way down is easy to miss when you're tired. Thankfully the manual is pretty concise.

How you getting on with yours... like, are you getting powerful sounds? Also what software effects (if any) are you adding to it to get and even more crazy sound? Some machine:)