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This is my 1st time using this forum. Please excuse me for any ingnorance I appear to have.

I am running ProTools M-Powered 7 on Windows XP, using an M-Audio Project I.O firewire control sufrace. I also have an MPC-2000XL drum machine hooded up for my beats. I want to record the output of my drum machine into a ProTools track using the control surface midi time clock to control the drum machines timing (start, tempo, etc.).

My question is: how can I program the control surface in ProTools to trigger the drum machine (I know how to program the drum machine to receive the midi control signal).

I hope I didn't make this sound too confusing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

P. Nomenon

Search the reference guide for "MIDI Beat Clock", there is an explanation of how to set it up.

I am assuming you have your MIDI Studio setup correctly.

I did set up an Akai MPC-2000 profile in my midi studio setting in PT, but no luck. I tried using the ProjectMix Control Surface MIDI port and the ProjectMix External MIDI port options. Once selected, both yield an error message "ProTools is unable to connect with HUI..."

Did I miss a step?

In AMS if you double click on your midi device and then click on the "More Information" arrow near the bottom right, do you have a check in the box (under the "Receives" section) "MIDI Beat Clock"? This tells AMS to pass this information on to the device.

OK. Now here is where I will sound really stupid. What is AMS and where do I find it. I haven't seen those options while in ProTools or the control surface control panel software interface. I'm kinda new to using a DAW to control MIDI clock and tempo on legacy hardware.

Thanks for your help so far.

Sorry, I was mixing up two threads, so it is me that sounds stupid.

I was referring to the Audio MIDI Setup on Mac. I don't remember the PC application name, but it is something like MIDI Studio. So replace AMS with the MIDI setup utility for a PC.