Help: ACID Music Studio 8 & Midi Controller -ACID Product Family

Subject:Help: ACID Music Studio 8 & Midi Controller Posted by: capn89 Date:7/25/2011 4:46:27 PM Hey, I decided to give up on google and come to a place I would hope could give me some answers. I'm trying to use my Casio WK-1630 as a midi controller in ACID Music Studio 8 but I'm having zero luck. I plug it in through USB and drivers install properly, then I open ACID and when I check the external midi device properties the device appears on the list. I've gone through all the steps in ACID's help index and I just can't get it to work. I'm a newb when it comes to midi so I have no clue what I'm doing, but it's frustrating the bejesus out of me. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. - Paul
Subject:RE: Help: ACID Music Studio 8 & Midi Controller Reply by: sodbuster-ca Date:7/25/2011 7:04:45 PM *"...I'm a newb when it comes to midi so I have no clue what I'm doing..."* MIDI is "kind of" like a telophone system; if you want to speak to your buddy Ralf, you dial Ralf's number. If you want to speak to Olga, you dial Olga's number. If you want to speak to Ralf and Olga at the same time, you dial both their numbers utilizing the "Three-Way" protocol for your phone. So, if your Casio is set-up to output on MIDI channel 3, your ACID MIDI track must be set to receive on MIDI channel 3. If your Casio is set-up to operate in the Omni mode, it will transmit on all 16 MIDI channels simultaniously. The first thing you should do is know for sure what MIDI channel the Casio is set to output on. Once you've done that, the ACID "Help Index" should get you going unless you have some structural problem with your keyboard, your USB cable or your computer. Message last edited on7/25/2011 7:06:43 PM bysodbuster-ca.
Subject:RE: Help: ACID Music Studio 8 & Midi Controller Reply by: capn89 Date:7/26/2011 8:09:48 PM After screwing around for a few hours I decided to try one of the more nonsensical things imaginable; I switched the in/out wires on the back of my keyboard and it worked! No, I'm not a bloody moron, I had the IN plugged into IN and the OUT plugged into OUT. Either my keyboard is wired backwards or the interface cable was backwards. Either way, all is well... except for latency, but I should have expected as much. Thanks for your time.
Subject:RE: Help: ACID Music Studio 8 & Midi Controller Reply by: collinsylex Date:7/27/2011 8:04:23 AM It doesn't sound like your keyboard is wired backwards,,, you go OUT of your computer IN to a midi device, and OUT of a midi device IN to the computer.. the OUTPUT of your guitar goes to the audio INPUT of your soundcard... See?

Subject:Help: ACID Music Studio 8 & Midi Controller

Posted by: capn89

Date:7/25/2011 4:46:27 PM

Hey, I decided to give up on google and come to a place I would hope could give me some answers. I'm trying to use my Casio WK-1630 as a midi controller in ACID Music Studio 8 but I'm having zero luck. I plug it in through USB and drivers install properly, then I open ACID and when I check the external midi device properties the device appears on the list. I've gone through all the steps in ACID's help index and I just can't get it to work. I'm a newb when it comes to midi so I have no clue what I'm doing, but it's frustrating the bejesus out of me. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

- Paul

Subject:RE: Help: ACID Music Studio 8 & Midi Controller

Reply by: sodbuster-ca

Date:7/25/2011 7:04:45 PM

"...I'm a newb when it comes to midi so I have no clue what I'm doing..."

MIDI is "kind of" like a telophone system; if you want to speak to your buddy Ralf, you dial Ralf's number. If you want to speak to Olga, you dial Olga's number. If you want to speak to Ralf and Olga at the same time, you dial both their numbers utilizing the "Three-Way" protocol for your phone.

So, if your Casio is set-up to output on MIDI channel 3, your ACID MIDI track must be set to receive on MIDI channel 3. If your Casio is set-up to operate in the Omni mode, it will transmit on all 16 MIDI channels simultaniously.

The first thing you should do is know for sure what MIDI channel the Casio is set to output on. Once you've done that, the ACID "Help Index" should get you going unless you have some structural problem with your keyboard, your USB cable or your computer.

Message last edited on7/25/2011 7:06:43 PM bysodbuster-ca.

Subject:RE: Help: ACID Music Studio 8 & Midi Controller

Reply by: capn89

Date:7/26/2011 8:09:48 PM

After screwing around for a few hours I decided to try one of the more nonsensical things imaginable; I switched the in/out wires on the back of my keyboard and it worked! No, I'm not a bloody moron, I had the IN plugged into IN and the OUT plugged into OUT. Either my keyboard is wired backwards or the interface cable was backwards. Either way, all is well... except for latency, but I should have expected as much. Thanks for your time.

Subject:RE: Help: ACID Music Studio 8 & Midi Controller

Reply by: collinsylex

Date:7/27/2011 8:04:23 AM

It doesn't sound like your keyboard is wired backwards,,, you go OUT of your computer IN to a midi device, and OUT of a midi device IN to the computer..

the OUTPUT of your guitar goes to the audio INPUT of your soundcard...

See?