So I love(hate) din midi cables as much as the next human, mine are all black so its hard to follow where they go and I’d love to do more of my midi connections by usb only and manage the connectivity in the box. I’m about to move house and I’ve got just my DT and Launchpad Pro Mk3 on the desk both connected to my iMac via usb.
I can make a din connection between the DT and LP, thats fine, but I feel like I should be able to route midi between them via this very powerful computer of mine… right? … and Mac’s Audio MIDI Setup(AMS), should be the place to do this… right? … well, as far as I can tell, AMS isnt doing anything, I make connections via the list view and nothing ends up going between my devices.
I’ve looked over some pretty generic tutorials on this and it seems like it should just work. Anyone got ideas about what my gotcha is?
I use Bitwig and have no issues getting devices to talk to each other within Bitwig. But I often feel like NOT having Bitwig open, the DT is such a nice little sketchpad and I find it a great place to start off a jam… helps prevent blank project freakouts
2 questions.
1: What are these free/shareware apps you speak of?
2: If AMS doesnt do this then what does it do?
ALSO! I’ve now found that I can send notes from LP to DT by checking the boxes in the preferences of the standalone Overbridge app… thats cool and nearly solves my needs, but notes dont get recorded in live record mode, I can trigger the samples but that doesnt end up in the DT’s sequencer.
I have the same question. Audio MIDI setup allows you to create connections between midi ports, but surprisingly midi is not routed between the devices. So I don’t understand the purpose in those connections.
From what I remember, AMS lets you map out your setup so that other software (DAWs etc) can show you what device is on a given interface/channel. Remember how MIDI doesn’t typically provide any discovery (device names etc)… but it’d be great if your DAW let you choose “Microkorg” rather than “Channel 6 on interface B”. It’s probably only actually used by Logic, but it’s probably also available to other DAWs.
Thank you, that makes sense now. I spent a lot of time trying to research this when I first discovered it and I never came across this explanation. If you’re right, I’m guessing that it’s only documented in Logic manuals/help which I don’t use.
MidiPipe works for me on macOS 13.4 Ventura (although I did find that if the screensaver kicks in, the MIDI connections are dropped).
MIDI Patchbay on the other hand does not (macOS tells me it requires an update from the developer), and seems to have been abandoned.
I too have no idea what the connections do in Apple’s “Audio MIDI Setup” app, they don’t seem sufficient to allow MIDI messages to be transmitted between the connected devices. What’s more, even if I delete a connection, the devices are still connected by MidiPipe.
