MPC 3000 and PT 9

[beyondat]

Does your midisport show up in pro tools , can you select it as your MIDI outs? Are the MIDI cables connected to the mpc properly?

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[Balalaikka]

You are on the wrong page. Pages 1115-1131 only tell how to sync PT to external clock source and that is not what you want to do.

Try to sync with MMC using the PT as a master. Page 1132 and forward. If you do this you have to set the sync in source to MMC from the MPC too. From what I read this is exactly what you are trying to do.

[michaelc5228]

Originally Posted by beyondat

Does your midisport show up in pro tools , can you select it as your MIDI outs? Are the MIDI cables connected to the mpc properly?

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Yeah, it shows up in the track and it shows up in Audio Midi set Up app. I have one midi cable coming from the out A to In A on the Midi Sport. Im calling tech support at sweetwater and see what they got

[beyondat]

You have the MIDI cables wrong, "out" from the midisport to " in" on the mpc.

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[michaelc5228]

Originally Posted by beyondat

You have the MIDI cables wrong, "out" from the midisport to " in" on the mpc.

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i typed that wrong. I had them the way you said. I just got off a hour long tech support call from Sweetwater. This interface is faulty. They are sending a new one

[deuc647]

I know this is off topic, but all of you with a MPC 3K, can u sample while the sequencer is playing?

[Studio507]

Originally Posted by deuc647

I know this is off topic, but all of you with a MPC 3K, can u sample while the sequencer is playing?

No, not with the Akai OS at least.

To OP:

Midi Sport to computer. Midi out 1 from Midi Sport to Midi in 2 on MPC. Tempo/Synch->>Soft Key 1-->Synch In Mode: Midi Clock-->>Midi Input: 2 Soft Key 1 (Synch In=ON)

In ProTools Options-->midi-->midi beat click--> check box 1.

Use midi input 1 on the MpC for keyboard controller. Send a midi out from the MPC to the input on the sport so you can control/sequence VI's.

[michaelc5228]

Originally Posted by Studio507

No, not with the Akai OS at least.

To OP:

Midi Sport to computer. Midi out 1 from Midi Sport to Midi in 2 on MPC. Tempo/Synch->>Soft Key 1-->Synch In Mode: Midi Clock-->>Midi Input: 2 Soft Key 1 (Synch In=ON)

In ProTools Options-->midi-->midi beat click--> check box 1.

Use midi input 1 on the MpC for keyboard controller. Send a midi out from the MPC to the input on the sport so you can control/sequence VI's.

Ive tried all that. When I go to midi beat clock the box shows up and in the top it says"enable midi beat clock for" and there is already a check next to that box, but below it the midisport isnt showing up for me to check it off.

[michaelc5228]

Got the cakewalk interface. Things are working good

[HiFi Yeah]

Gentlemen,

Have any of you had luck syncing an MPC3000 and Nuendo 5.

I want to sync using midi time code using the MPC as the master. Nuendo does not seem to respond to this, although using Nuendo as the master does work. What's the deal? Do I need to wire up midi machine control using MPC as master as well? Because I noticed when successfully getting MPC as the slave it didn't work unless I had midi machine control set up as well.

Thanks

[Ezionjd]

Originally Posted by Balalaikka

If you are just tracking then make pro tools the master. You won't lose timing because pro tools just sends the start command to the mp and it then plays its own sequencer.

This.

[HiFi Yeah]

What if the MPC song has tempo changes, with the DAW as the master does this become all messed up?

I'm wiring it up with the purpose of writing moog parts to DAW while also writing rhythm and tempo to MPC. And then eventually dumping MPC to DAW via multitrack.

Also testing yesterday the waveforms do not match up (free MPC vs slaved MPC). Perhaps every take of the MPC is different and never matches up? But just pointing out they do not seem to be exactly the same rhythm and or tempo when taking orders from the DAW.

[beyondat]

Originally Posted by HiFi Yeah

What if the MPC song has tempo changes, with the DAW as the master does this become all messed up?

I'm wiring it up with the purpose of writing moog parts to DAW while also writing rhythm and tempo to MPC. And then eventually dumping MPC to DAW via multitrack.

Also testing yesterday the waveforms do not match up (free MPC vs slaved MPC). Perhaps every take of the MPC is different and never matches up? But just pointing out they do not seem to be exactly the same rhythm and or tempo when taking orders from the DAW.

don't midi sync it then. just track out to pro tools for the duration of your song and use tab to transient. never done it but it should work. Actually you still can midi sync it and ad the tempo change markers in pro tools after all tracks have been dumped into pro tools. pro tools doesn't change the timing of the mpc, it just tell the mpc when to start playing.

[Ezionjd]

Originally Posted by HiFi Yeah

What if the MPC song has tempo changes, with the DAW as the master does this become all messed up?

I'm wiring it up with the purpose of writing moog parts to DAW while also writing rhythm and tempo to MPC. And then eventually dumping MPC to DAW via multitrack.

Also testing yesterday the waveforms do not match up (free MPC vs slaved MPC). Perhaps every take of the MPC is different and never matches up? But just pointing out they do not seem to be exactly the same rhythm and or tempo when taking orders from the DAW.

All tempo changes will have to be either manually programmed or midi dumped into the DAW.
Midi clock syncing will not affect the MPC quantize grid, but it will ignore local tempo changes.

[HiFi Yeah]

I've got to be synced for the way I am doing things.

But it sounds like the DAW can probably handle tempo changes...if I click in the middle of the project and overdub something, the beat should start at the correct place, even if there were tempo changes earlier in the song, because it is just specifying a time position (although adding a tempo jump to the MPC song after DAW tracks were laid down would hose everything, guessing).

Sounds reasonable if that's how it works...going to test it out later this week. Although frankly I wish the DAW would just shut the hell up and take orders from the MPC! Track tempo changes and all, to a grid, as dictated by the almighty MPC. I guess Nuendo's ego is too big to take orders from 1980s technology.

Midi is actually good for something, who would have known!