COD
27 October 2009
A friend of me has a Roland TD4 digikit and rather then recording the line-out, I'm looking into feeding the MIDI out into PT LE, so we can edit his playing and use different samples afterwards. However my Mbox 1 doesn't have a MIDI in; will a simple MIDI to usb converter like the Cakewalk UM1G give me one MIDI file/track which I can edit with PT? What exactly does the MIDI out send, one single track with all hits on the kit? What are alternatives besides the UM1G? I'm not that experienced with hooking up external hardware with MIDI. Thanks.
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The MIDI out from the TD4 consists of a stream of digital data d
The MIDI out from the TD4 consists of a stream of digital data describing basically what was hit, how hard and (implicitly) when.
Any simple MIDI interface will work to capture this data, but not an Mbox with PT. If you were to get a USB MIDI interface, you could record the MIDI data stream using software such as Reaper or Cubase and then import the stream into PT. However, PT is not a good MIDI editor, and you would be better sticking to Cubase for your MIDI projects.