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So i just got a MicroKORG XL and logics 9 put on my mac, and i was wondering if you can take all the sounds and programs of the microKORG and use them on logics? and how to do that?

You connect the stereo audio outputs on the MicroKorg XL to the inputs of your audio interface or sound card.

Then you hit record on an audio track in Logic, and play the MicroKorg XL.

Seriously, hardware exists for a reason. If you could just load all the patches into software so you don't need the hardware, what would be the point?
Obviously the same doesn't quite apply to samples, but the XL is a dedicated Virtual Analog synth machine, mostly not using any samples, just pure mathematically generated waveforms.

You can also control the MicroKorg from a MIDI track in Logic, using a MIDI interface or the virtual MIDI provided by the USB port. More on that read here:
- NOT RECEIVING SOUNDS FROM USB/MIDI? Read this -

It was written for the Radias and R3, but really applies to all KORG synths with USB and/or MIDI.

X-Trade wrote:You connect the stereo audio outputs on the MicroKorg XL to the inputs of your audio interface or sound card.

Then you hit record on an audio track in Logic, and play the MicroKorg XL.

Seriously, hardware exists for a reason. If you could just load all the patches into software so you don't need the hardware, what would be the point?
Obviously the same doesn't quite apply to samples, but the XL is a dedicated Virtual Analog synth machine, mostly not using any samples, just pure mathematically generated waveforms.

You can also control the MicroKorg from a MIDI track in Logic, using a MIDI interface or the virtual MIDI provided by the USB port. More on that read here:
- NOT RECEIVING SOUNDS FROM USB/MIDI? Read this -

It was written for the Radias and R3, but really applies to all KORG synths with USB and/or MIDI.

So I have to have a midi interface to use it in a midi track?
cause if used it in a audio track but i want it in midi

No, you don't need a MIDI interface because the XL has a virtual MIDI connection over USB, as I mentioned.

you simply need to connect the USB and install the KORG driver, then the XL will appear as a MIDI port.

X-Trade wrote:No, you don't need a MIDI interface because the XL has a virtual MIDI connection over USB, as I mentioned.

you simply need to connect the USB and install the KORG driver, then the XL will appear as a MIDI port.

Alright so i did that and it appears with the 16 channels, and there is nothing happening. like no sounds or anything.

Well, most of it is covered in the post I linked you to previously.

MIDI is a way to control another synth, it has nothing to do with the actual sounds it creates. it sends messages saying when notes are turned on and off, when controllers are adjusted, etc. no actual audio data.

You can send 1 channel to it, and it will play back the notes on that channel on whatever sound the XL is set to at that point. If you change the sound, you'll hear the same notes with a different sound.

If you change the channel, you'll probably hear nothing as the MicroKorg can only play back one channel at a time - it isn't really designed for multitimbral MIDI operation. By default it should be set to channel 1.

Which brings me on to the other point. As I mentioned, MIDI has nothing to do with sound, meaning that the XL is still the thing creating the sound as you are playing back the MIDI. connected by USB, you only have a MIDI connection so no sound will make it back into your DAW (Logic 9), you have to plug in the XL into speakers or headphones or record the audio onto an audio track in Logic in order to be able to hear it, again through an external audio interface or sound card.

Aright thanks dude
sorry for all the trouble haha

I take it you have it working now then?

Glad to have been some help!

yeah i got i figured out, thanks again