hey what's going on guys in this quick video i want to show you how to set up your midi
keyboard inside the logic pro so the midi keyboard i'm going to be setting up today is an m audio
keystation 61 mark iii but this will be the same process despite what midi keyboard you are using
it is just a case of changing a preset which we'll talk about in just a moment so when you first plug
in your usb cable into logic pro it should work straight out of the box in terms of playing notes
and sounds but if we focus on the transport section we'll find that they don't work as they
should so it's playing a note rather than the function itself and this is what we need to fix
so in order to go and do that the first thing we want to do is come up to logic pro in the top left
hand corner right there and we're going to go down to control surfaces first of all and down to set
up so going back a few updates ago we used to have a section over here on the left hand side of all
the perimeters in there that we needed to change that isn't there automatically anymore so if you
guys aren't seeing that i'll show you how to get that back in a minute as it is really important in
order to get this to work but before we do that i just want you to focus on this new tab right there
so if you tap on that and hit that install button will be presented by all these templates inside of
here so you may have to a bit of research or maybe go to your manufacturer website or manual to find
out which one of these you need with logic pro but for anybody that is using a m audio key station
we need to set that up using the mackie designs mackie control right there so once you guys find
which one it is that you need along here you just simply add that and we can just close this
box there because we no longer need it so at the moment we can't do anything with this because we
don't have the perimeters on the left hand side so we can double tap it we can try and delete it
it just won't do anything so in order to get this to work now we need to come back over to the left
hand side at the top and this time we're going to go to preferences over to audio and all the
way over to the right hand side to where it says advanced so once you tap on that you've got all
of these here and the one that you need to make sure that is checked is that control surfaces
one right there you can enable all of these if you want that's entirely up to you but if
you don't then just make sure you've got control surfaces checked for me i'm just going to enable
them all and i'm just going to close that so if we come back and we close this now and we
come back to logic pro again back down to control surfaces back to setup there's all our parameters
that i was talking about so now we've got these all we have to change in all of this are these
two top ones right there the output port and the input port so for the m audio ok station
it will appear here yours may have a different name providing what you're using so for the output
we need just the usb midi and for the input we need to make sure that says transport and that
is all you have to do and it will work from there so if we close that now and we just hit the notes
and now our transport should work with the play button straight away you can see it's
moving the playhead we can hit stop to stop stop again to go back we've got the record button and
stop we've got these buttons here that can scroll through the tracks
and if you hit that one there it will make them bigger or smaller by zooming in and out
and our volume will work as well for some reason it doesn't seem to move
on the screen as you can see it did used to work i'm not sure why it doesn't anymore but if we play
a sound sorry i've just got to go back up to that piano at the top there so we've got a sound loaded
you can see that it's working and as we adjust the volume
it gets quieter all the way down and we've got no sound at all so you can see that is working also
so i hope this helped you guys out if it did then please give me a thumbs up as it makes all the
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but for now have a great day and i'll see you in the next video