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[starving student]

don't mean to waste your time with this one, but for some reason I am not able to control my microkorg with another controller, or control my softsynths via another controller through the microkorg, but the microkorg as controller is working fine it self.
this is what i want to do:

Korg padkontrol >>microkorg >>to softsynths

would one of you be so kind as to give me a step by step of how the microkorg should be set up.

my thoughts were that all i needed to do was hook the midi out of the padkontrol into the midi in of the microkorg, but i'm not able to control the microkorg or softsynths in that way at all.

thanks in advance for your time and help

[starving student]

please folks i've checked the manual and I can't seem to find the problem

[Daz]

If your pK is connected to your PC/Mac via USB you can use the MIDI ports on it just as if it was a MIDI USB interface. See the manual for the pK for more info. If you go down that route you'll be able to connect the mK MIDI OUT to the pK MIDI IN, and mK MIDI IN to the pK MIDI OUT. It won't just work, straight off the bat, but it's a setup that with a decent DAW will work well.

Are you using a PC or a Mac ? What host are you using for your soft synths ?

Daz.

[starving student]

thank you for responding Daz, I'm running windows and ableton Live.

what i want to do is connect my pk or an mpc to the microkorg and then the microkorg to the computer last in the chain.
everything works fine except that it seems that anything connected to my microkorgs midi in does not let me control the microkorg. for instance, i've got my pks midi din out going to the mks midi in and pressing the pads on the pk produces no sound or control on the mk, same thing when connecting my mpcs midi out to the mks midi in. I seem to have all of them on the same midi channel so I don't know whats the problem.

[kpatz]