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Pro Tools 6.0 and higher recognize the ports on your MIDI interface as generic ports. With

Mac OS X, you use Apple’s Audio MIDI Setup

(AMS) utility to identify external MIDI devices connected to your MIDI interface and configure your MIDI studio for use with Pro Tools.

To configure your MIDI studio in AMS:

1

Launch Audio MIDI Setup (located in Applications/Utilities).

– or –

In Pro Tools, choose Setups > Edit MIDI Studio

Setup.

2

Click the MIDI Devices tab. AMS scans your system for connected MIDI interfaces. If your

MIDI interface is properly connected, it appears in the window with each of its ports numbered.

3

For any MIDI devices connected to the MIDI interface, click Add Device. A new external device icon with the default MIDI keyboard image will appear.

4

Drag the new device icon to a convenient location within the window.

5

Connect the MIDI device to the MIDI interface by clicking the arrow for the appropriate output port of the device and dragging a connection or “cable” to the input arrow of the corresponding port of the MIDI interface.

Making MIDI input and output connections

Audio MIDI Setup (MIDI Devices tab)

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6

Click the arrow for the appropriate input port of the device and drag a cable to the output arrow of the corresponding port of the MIDI interface.

To remove a connection, select the cable and press Delete. To delete all connections, click Clear Cables.

7

Repeat steps 3–6 for each MIDI device in your

MIDI setup.

To configure an external MIDI device:

1

Select the external device icon and click Show

Info (or double-click the new device icon).

2

Select a manufacturer and model for the new device from the corresponding pop-up menus.

(If the Manufacturer and Model pop-up menus do not provide a name for your particular device, you can type a name.)

Naming a new MIDI device

External Device Icon

AMS refers to one or more files with the suffix “.middev” in the directory Library/Audio/MIDI Devices for Manufacturer and

Model names. Pro Tools installs two such files that contain information for many commercially available MIDI devices, Legacy Devices.middev and Digidesign Devices.middev. If the Manufacturer or Model names for any of your external MIDI devices is not available in the AMS Manufacturer and Model pop-up menus, you can add them by editing any of the current .middev files in any text editor (such as TextEdit).

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3

Click the More Properties arrow to expand the dialog, then enable the appropriate MIDI channels (1–16) for the Transmits and Receives options. (These determine which channels the device will use to send and receive MIDI.)

4

Click the device image. The window expands to show images for various MIDI devices (such as keyboards, modules, interfaces, and mixers).

Select an icon for your device.

Enabling MIDI channels

Selecting a device icon

To use your own custom icons, you can place TIFF image files in /Library/

Audio/MIDI Devices/Generic/Images, and they will appear as choices in the AMS device window.

5

Click OK.

The device names you enter appear as MIDI input and output choices in Pro Tools.

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