Linking to Your Sequencer Linking with emagic Logic Audio (Mac OS) |

Beatnik has verified compatibility with Logic Audio Silver, Gold, and Platinum, versions 4.1.3 through 4.7.0.
Setting Up
Install MIDI linking software on your computer, following the supplied installation instructions. We support the Open Music System (OMS), which can be downloaded from the Web. OMS is available at: http://www.opcode.com/downloads/ For best results, make sure to get version 2.1 or greater. If this site is inaccessible, do a Web search using your favorite search engine. Install Logic Audio Silver, Gold, or Platinum on your computer, following the supplied installation instructions. Restart your computer. This will enable the MIDI linking software, so that Logic Audio and the Beatnik Editor can detect it. Launch the Beatnik Editor. Always launch the Beatnik Editor before Logic Audio. Otherwise Logic Audio won't detect the Beatnik Editor at the other end of the linking utility. In the Beatnik Editor, select the linking utility as your MIDI input source. Go to the Edit menu and select the Preferences... command, then in the Preferences dialog box select OMS as your MIDI input source. If OMS prompts you to turn off AppleTalk, answer OK. AppleTalk is known to interfere with MIDI, and can cause both Logic and the Beatnik Editor to hang. In the Beatnik Editor, make sure you have one or more Session windows open. If you want visual linking, click on the Instruments tab in a Session window. Launch Logic Audio. Working with Logic Audio and the Beatnik Editor
Remember: Always launch the Beatnik Editor first.
Launch the Beatnik Editor. Launching the Beatnik Editor first ensures that Logic will be able to find it when Logic starts up. Launch Logic Audio. In Logic, open your sequence. Set up your MIDI Tracks to play back on the Beatnik Editor MIDI synthesizer. For each MIDI Track (in a new song, this will usually be track 10 and it will be assigned to GM Device 1): Set the MIDI Output port. Click and hold on the MIDI out pop-up menu, then select Beatnik: Set the Track's Bank and Program numbers: - Click on the GM Device (above the MIDI out selector). The GM Device window will appear: - In the GM Device window, click and hold on *Custom Bank Messages*, then select Bank Message: Control 0 from the pop-up menu: - Click and hold on the (No Bank specified. Names of Bank 0 used) pop-up menu, then select Bank 1: - In the dialog box that appears, asking whether you want to initialize a new bank, click the Initialize button: - Click and hold in the same pop-up menu again, and then select Bank 2: - When the Initialize new Bank? dialog box appears again, click the Initialize button again. - Click on the dash to the right of the Prg box to select the Bank you want to use: Use Bank 0, 1, or 2: Bank 0: General MIDI Melodic Instruments (on channel 10: General MIDI Percussion Instruments) Bank 1: Beatnik Special Melodic Instruments (on channel 10: Beatnik Special Percussion) Bank 2: Custom Melodic Instruments (on channel 10: Custom Percussion Instruments Note: If you're on channel 1, the Beatnik Editor will highlight your selection to reflect any Bank Select or Program Change. - Click on the number to the right of the Bank number, then select your desired Program (patch) number: Note: These settings only affect playback, not exported Standard MIDI Files. If you want to export a MIDI file, import it into the Beatnik Editor, and export it as an RMF file with the exact same instruments assigned to it, then you'll have to insert Bank Select and Program Change events into the Track Event Lists. Inserting MIDI Bank Select and Program Change (Patch Change) Events Into Your Sequence
In order for you to be able to export a MIDI file from Logic, import it into the Beatnik Editor, and convert it to an RMF file that plays the correct MIDI Instruments every time, you'll have to insert Bank Selects and Program Changes into your tracks' MIDI event lists. This is especially important if you're using Instruments that you've created in the Beatnik Editor.
Open a Track in the Event List window. Select a Track that contains notes that you want to drive the Beatnik Editor, then go to the Windows menu and select the Open Event List command. In the Event List window, insert a Bank Select event at the very start of the Track. This will be a Continuous Controller message for controller number 0. Change your cursor to the pencil tool, then control-click on the green Control Change Events button: A new Control Change event will appear in the list: Change your cursor back to the arrow. Set the event time by double-clicking on the new event in the Position column, then typing the time at which you want the bank change to occur: The event will move to the new time in the event list. For example, 1 1 1 1 is the first event, and 1 1 1 2 happens immediately after - in the first measure, first beat, first division, and second tick. Set the first part of the Bank number by double-clicking on the event in the NUM column, then typing the number 0: When you hit the Return or Enter key on your computer keyboard, the Length/Info column will change to Bank MSB. Set the second part of the Bank number by double-clicking on the event in the VAL column, then typing the actual Bank number you want to use. Use Bank 0, 1, or 2: Bank 0: General MIDI Melodic Instruments (on channel 10: General MIDI Percussion Instruments) Bank 1: Beatnik Special Melodic Instruments (on channel 10: Beatnik Special Percussion) Bank 2: Custom Melodic Instruments (on channel 10: Custom Percussion Instruments Still in the Event List window, insert your Program (patch) Change events: Change your cursor to the pencil tool, then control-click on the green Program Change Events button: A new Program Change event will appear in the list. Change your cursor back to the arrow. Set the event time by double-clicking on the new event in the Position column, then typing the time at which you want the bank change to occur: The event will move to the new time in the event list. Note: Make sure the time of the Program Change is after the time of the Bank Change. Set the Program number by double-clicking on the event in the VAL column, then typing your desired program number: Tips: Save your work often Remember that to ensure consistency of sound, your playback settings should match the Event List. Moving Your Sequence Into the Beatnik Editor and the RMF Format
When you're finished inserting all your Bank and Patch changes, and your notes are all sounding the way you want them, save your sequence as a Standard MIDI File. Then, in the Beatnik Editor, Import that MIDI file into a Session window (or just drag it into the Songs tab of a Session window ), Play the song as a check, and finally export it as an RMF file.

Linking to Your Sequencer / Linking with emagic Logic Audio (Mac OS) top |