Overwhelmed....help! Pleeeeezzzz., Configuring my DAW..... Options

[myerz]

Hello everyone,

It looks like there's alot of very knowledgable people here....I'm hoping one of you might not be tired of helping a newbie out.

First, I will starty by saying that I do not know much.....but I think if I could just get things talking to each other than I might be able to take note of how things are configured, and what to do and not to do.

Here's my arrangement......

I have a G5 running Logic Pro 7, a MOTU MIDI Express XT, a RME FireFace800, a Mackie Control Universal, and several other MIDI instruments ( Dr.880, MOTIF ES6, etc.).

Here's my routing.....I have all of my MIDI devices plugged into the MOTU, to include the FireFace and MCU. I have both MIDI IN and OUT
plugged into the MCU and in the FF800 (just thought I would mention it). Anyways, I have the FF800 plugged into the G5 thru the Firewire 800 port. I have the MOTU plugged into the G5 via USB.

My first issue is I can't get the MCU to respond. I did do a "Control Surface" setup thru LOGIC, and when I have LOGIC opened and I rotate the Shuttle, I can see values change in the transport, but that's it. When I press play the transport in LOGIC reflects running time info but none of that translates to the MCU. What am I missing? Either I am communicating OR not!

It's looking like there's so much to configure and route......
If you had this same configuration.... How would you do it?


I feel so discouraged, it's hard to tell what's working correctly when you don't know exactly how things are suppossed to work.

Any suggestions? Does myt routing seem correct?

Thank you

[arvidtp]

Sorry, I don't know a darn thing about how standard control surfaces work. In fact, never used one I didn't build myself. And not to be impolite, but in order to attract people who DO know about this stuff (which are probably the real power users) Pleeeeezzzz use a much more specific and less desperate sounding post title. I'm sure you would get more people looking at a post titled "Logic 7 and Mackie Control not communicating" or something.

As for the MIDI routing, I don't know why you have the RME plugged into the MOTU, as they are both inputs to/outputs from the computer, and pluging them together just creates a pair of loops out and back into the computer. If you have need of that, OS X virtual MIDI busses would be much more useful, and not as prone to possibly causing a MIDI loop which has a tendency to hard crash logic and your computer (at least in version 6).

Best of luck - looks like you have a killer system to make some nice sounds with - nicer'n mine (except you can't hual a G5 to a Gig so easily as a cute little powerbook ... )

[myerz]

Yes, I know I shouldn't sound so desperate.....and with you being the only one to respond...I guess no one else wants bother with me. OR, they just wanted to give a chane to "sink or swim". Your right on the RME to FF800, when I look at my audio setup/devicec, FF800 shows up in there but I can't do anything with it. I 'll get rid of that loop now, I just saw MIDI in/out....and said to myself....."that goes there and that goes there". Oh well.
Anyways, I got everything working, I updated my MCU to 2.1.2. They had configuration for LOGIC. I'm starting to like it. So much to learn again.

Thanks for your input.....or is it output?