[RWP] Getting sounds from a midi synthesizer to play in Reaper?

[Patrick Perdue]

Jes:

I would say use MLan, but as I understand it, that's no fun on modern 
operating systems. As I have no personal experience doing things this 
way, I could be wrong. Gordon Kent, who is on this list, would be the 
man to ask about such things.
MLan would allow you to get a return from each part of the Motif's 
sequencer in real time via firewire. Effectively, your Motif would 
become your audio interface. I believe the SX8 comes with it by default, 
whereas the SX6 needs an add-on board.

If you don't want to use analog or MLan, s/pdif is the easiest way to go 
about getting a clean mix-down from your Motif, provided, of course, you 
have an interface capable of syncing to s/pdif clock. I use a little 
MOTU Audio Express interface for this.

On 5/7/2014 5:50 AM, Jes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Let me see if I can try and explain what I'm trying to do, as the
> subject line might seem a bit misleading.
> I have a Yamaha Motif XS8 connected via USB to Reaper so that I can use
> it as a midi controler, and everything works fine. I can load kontakt
> and sfz files into Reaper, play chords on the motif and the notes are
> sent properly from the synth to the computer. However, the XS8 has some
> incredible sounds that I want to access so that I can record them in my
> projects, without needing to go from the line-out of the synth to the
> line-in of a mixing board where there might be hiss, noise, static, etc.
> Is there any way to send the sounds from the XS8 directly to the
> computer itself using midi, instead of having to solely go the analog
> route? The XS8 has spdif, but I have nothing else in my setup that
> allows me to use spdif and I'm not too familiar with the complexity of
> that format anyway. Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
> Jes
>
>
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