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mohopper
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Hi All, I’m completely new to the world of MIDI, etc, but I have Ableton Live and Reason 4, and I’m thinking I should be able to use my MO8 as an input device. Is this possible?
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Bad_Mister
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Re: Using my MO8 as MIDI device in Ableton Live/Reason
Your question is really about how to configure LIVE and Reason… if you have downloaded and installed the correct USB-MIDI Driver for your computer, then you should be able to select the Yamaha USB-MIDI Driver within the software.
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mohopper
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Re: Using my MO8 as MIDI device in Ableton Live/Reason
Oh, wasn’t aware those kinds of specs would be useful. The computer is a Toshiba Intel laptop running XP. I tried to use the driver for windows vista/x64, but my computer didn’t seem to recognize it. So I downloaded the driver for win 2K/xp, and that seemed to work fine, or at least the “Add Hardware” process completed successfully, then said I needed to reboot for the driver to take effect, which I did.
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Bad_Mister
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Re: Using my MO8 as MIDI device in Ableton Live/Reason
If your computer is running XP, then you should have downloaded the following driver (we are still pretty confident from your answers that you did not get the correct driver and you certainly did not install it properly).
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mohopper
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Re: Using my MO8 as MIDI device in Ableton Live/Reason
Bad Mister, thanks for the great reply.
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mohopper
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Re: Using my MO8 as MIDI device in Ableton Live/Reason
UPDATE: Still no luck, but some more info. By hooking the keyboard up to the USB port, the hardware driver install occurred again. Once again, I chose the driver in question (already on my hard drive), and it installed.
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mohopper
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Re: Using my MO8 as MIDI device in Ableton Live/Re
bumping, still haven’t had any success, still stuck in scenario described in last post, above.
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