this might be stupid question, yet it would improve my life a lot so I’m daring to ask anyhow
I’m trying to find if there is a way to export midi form my OT to my DAW (Cubase).
I’m using the OT as brainstorming tool to create new songs. In that setup, my OT sends midi to different drum machines, synths,… At a certain time, when my ideas are mature enough to switch over to Cubase, it would be so handy if I can just ‘dump’ the different midi notes trigs from OT to Cubase. So that Cubase can then take over and trigger these external machines in exactly the same way as the OT did. This Including aspects like microtiming or whatever parameter an LFO could control.
AFAIK, the only way is to slave OT clock and transport to Cubase and record the midi on the desired channels / tracks in Cubase. If you want to record midi channels only, make sure the audio tracks have midi note send disabled. There’s no midi file export function on the OT.
thanks for they info! I didn’t know it was possible to record midi sent out by OT into my DAW. That could be a good solution! I’ll investigate this, and also the OctaEdit
What are they teaching kids in school these days?! /s
This is worth reflecting on - this is literally what MIDI is for.
We send MIDI data into and out of devices that know how to interpret it.
If recording MIDI notes & CCs from a keyboard or controller into a DAW makes sense, then recording MIDI notes & CCs from the OT into a DAW should make sense. It’s just data sent over
the wire with a serial protocol. No magic, just 1980s tech. :^)
Haha you’re right! My school didn’t teach me this though
But yeah I didn’t think about it because I never record midi into my DAW with a keyboard neither
I’ll give it a try though!
thanks
I’m still on track to finish my first song Don’t know when that will be though. It will depend on how fast I learn about technologies like midi and CV and so
Set OT midi track with arp data to desired channel eg 1.
Set daw midi channel to recieve on midi channel 1.
Press play on OT, record on DAW.
Done.
Thats recording Midi from OT to DAW, not exporting. Recording happens in real time, export is an offline operation, possibly quicker than real time but not always.
(For those that dont know, MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Information)
I’ve been thinking about recording midi data to the computer to store patterns.
I figure you can pick a raw sound (square wave), sustain maxxed, no decay or attack, then record the audio to Ableton. Then use the audio to midi conversion and get most of the data.
