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LOL That should do it, now when you hit record in logic and have the external MIDI track armed and selected it will record which pad you are hitting and when you play it back it will send that MIDI info back to the MPC to trigger the sound. In that window make sure that your "Soft Thru" is set to OFF, if it is not when you play a pad on the MPC it will send MIDI to Logic and Logic will send it right back and it will go right back into logic and continue this cycle of MIDI giving you a MIDI loop and causing your AUDIO to keep re-triggering, but not it a good way. It will open up your "MIDI OUTPUT" window. After you have selected 1A or 1B for your MIDI on the MPC highlight the 1A or 1B and hit the WINDOW button on your MPC, it's right next to the "MAIN" button above your transport. OK, now EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, (and the last step I promise ). VERY IMPORTANT, look at your main sequence screen on the MPC, at the bottom left of the screen, right above the "SOLO" button there is a section named "MIDI" by default it says "OFF" highlight the word "OFF" and change that to 1A if your connected the actual physical MIDI cable to MIDI in 1 on the MPC or change it to 1B if you connected the physical MIDI cable to MIDI in 2 on the MPC. Now go to your MPC and you should have a drum program setup with samples on each pad. If you look in your Library on the right side of your screen you will see "MPC-2500" that you setup in AMS (audio midi setup), click on MPC-2500 in your Library, to the right of that you will see the 16 MIDI channels for the MPC.
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Logic will create an external MIDI track and your Library will open. Now, go back into Logic, in Logic you want to create an External MIDI track and make sure there is a check in the box beside "Open Library" when you create the track. Now this is just showing the MIDI signal flow from your computer to your MPC and it allows your DAW (Logic in this case) to recognize your external devices by name. Now look at the icon for your USB MIDI device, it should have at least 1 arrow pointing away from it, if it has more than one that suggest that your MIDI interface has more than one port, either way click the first arrow pointing away from it and drag it to the first arrow pointing into the MPC-2500 icon. Now you will be back int he MIDI window and you should be able to see you new device now named MPC-2500. After you apply that close the properties window. Double click on that new external instrument icon and it will open a properties window for the new external device, in the device name field name it MPC-2500 and click apply. OK now what you want to do is click the add device icon at the top of the window, it will create a "New external device" Icon, we are going to use that to identify your MPC by name in Logic. Once in the MIDI window you should see an Icon for all USB MIDI devices connected to your Mac, so you should see your USB MIDI interface there by name. If you are in the Audio window, simply click on the WINDOW menu at the top and click MIDI window. If you have never used it before you can find it in your utilities folder "AUDIO MIDI SETUP" when you open that you need to make sure you are in the MIDI window and not the AUDIO Window. To help make things less confusing I am going to suggest that you first setup your MIDI connections in the Audio MIDI Setup utility. I have used overbrige this way many times, and then sack off the audio and just work with stems in Cubase.OK, Hopefully I can explain this clearly.
#MPC 2. USB MIDI OUT PLUS#
To capture these plus MPC tracks as stems would be very useful.
#MPC 2. USB MIDI OUT PC#
I already have 16 Stereo inputs to the PC to cover my hardware. That’s just one scenario that wouldn’t even require multi-channel streaming, but at other points, this would be fantastic too, even if it was just 16 busses for capturing live performances. But being able to just expand the MPC a bit further would open up some great opportunities.
#MPC 2. USB MIDI OUT SOFTWARE#
When you have lots of hardware and integrate it with software managing latency is an absolute pain and primarily why I use an MPC rather than Bitwig or Cubase which I own. I prefer working with hardware these days, but have many great VST instruments too, it would be fantastic to be able to simply use them within the workflow.
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In terms of why, for myself I work in standalone with lots of hardware.