Also, per my most recent post, keep in mind that during "punch-in" recording of MIDI from your external MIDI instrument, MIDI OUT from MTS's MIDI TRACK will be muted, until you reach the punch-in point. However if you do this, you will not be able to monitor anything else being played back from other MTS TRACKS. The easiest is to use headphones attached directly to your keyboard. Thus to monitor your keyboard's audio output in response to MIDI OUT signals during playback from MTS, you have several options: From the perspective of the iPad itself, audio into an MTS track can only be monitored when "track record" is on and the "Monitor" button is activated.
#Using better ears with external midi generator#
You must first remember that it is the sound generator of your MIDI instrument which is generating audio.not MTS itself (unless you're using MTS's on-board general midi or soundfont sound generators). No doubt Giel will personally respond to your query, but you'll notice I've posted similar MIDI-related questions regarding use of my own external MIDI instruments with MTS for iPad. If it turns out that it's not possible to play MIDI from MTS to an external synth and just monitor the audio from the external synth in MTS without recording the audio, please consider modifying the monitoring options in MTS (a la Live, Cubase, etc.) to provide the option to monitor an external synth without recording it. Please tell me I'm wrong! Maybe I just have the monitoring options set incorrectly (but I don't think so). Now is where the problem starts: it seems that you can't play back the MIDI sequence in MTS and monitor the audio from the external synth without recording the audio. Listen to your performance and realize you suck and need to edit part of the MIDI sequence that you just recorded. Play your external synth and record the MIDI and/or Audio in MTS.ģ.
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Set up MTS so that it receives both MIDI and audio from an external synth (you'll need at least two tracks, an Audio Track, so that you can listen to the audio, and a MIDI Track, so that you can record the MIDI).Ģ. I hope I'm doing something wrong and that someone can help me out: I'm surprised that I'm not able to monitor an external synth that is playing back a MIDI sequence from MTS *without* recording the external synth.