nimaranjbar wrote: I do not know how to send midi messages from a daw into notion.
You mentioned Logic Pro X (Apple), so you are doing digital music production on the Mac, which is
excellent!
My primary Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) application is Digital Performer 8 (MOTU), but I also have Logic Pro X and a few others that I use primarily for doing YouTube video tutorials to accompany my posts to this FORUM; so I tried to discover the rules for Logic Pro X, but after a few hours I decided that I need to do a bit of reading to make sense of the virtual maze of parameters and rules . . .
Then, I switched to Digital Performer 8 and got it working in a few minutes, which is one of the reasons that I use Digital Performer 8 nearly all the time . . .
Nevertheless, I am somewhat confident that it will work with Logic Pro X, but Logic Pro X tends to make everything overly complex, so it will take a bit of work for me to make sense of it . . .
I did a YouTube video tutorial to show how it is done with Digital Performer 8 as the DAW application, and this is done in a ReWire 2 session where Digital Performer 8 is the ReWire 2 host controller and NOTION 4 is a ReWire 2 slave . . .
DP8 N4 MIDI Recording Tutorial ~ YouTube video tutorialTHOUGHTSReWire 2 is a very complex real-time interapplication communication technology, and it does a lot of work, as do the ReWire 2 host controller and ReWire 2 slave applications, so it is not particularly unusual for there to be an occasional odd behavior, at which time the best strategy is to exit or force quit the applications and to start over with a new ReWire 2 session, noting that for this reason saving your work frequently is advised . . .
Among other things I am third-party ReWire and Rack Extension Developer, and while I cannot provide any proprietary information, this is the link to the public overview of ReWire from a developer's perspective, and as you can see it is doing a lot of work . . .
ReWire Technical Overview (Propellerhead Software)Sometimes you might need to click on transport buttons two times, and as noted sometimes you just need to exit everything and start a new ReWire 2 session, all of which I consider to be expected behaviors . . .
Everything works nicely on the Mac, and as a general rule I do ReWire 2 sessions in two-hour blocks, where after two hours, I end the current ReWire 2 session and then start a new ReWire 2 session; and I save my work frequently . . .
You can work in NOTION 4 when it is running as a ReWire 2 slave application, and this includes adding new instruments; writing new music notation; editing existing music notation; and so forth . . .
If you are using Digital Performer 8, then you want to insert four empty measures at the start of your NOTION 4 score and to set a marker in Digital Performer 8 at the first beat of the fifth measure, which is what you will use instead of the transport to move to the start of the song, which is necessary because moving all the way to the first beat of the first measure in this scenario causes Digital Performer 8 to crash, but other than this odd behavior, everything else is fine, noting that this does
not happen with Ableton Live 9, Logic Pro 9/X, or PreSonus Studio One 2.6.1 Producer . . .
For reference, Ableton Live 9, Logic Pro 9/X, and PreSonus Studio One 2.6.1 Producer tend to use the same metaphors for ReWire 2 in the sense that they want the ReWire 2 to interface to an auxiliary channel strip and then for the auxiliary channel strip to send the audio to a track for recording, which is fine with me, except that Digital Performer 8 does it directly without the intermediate auxiliary channel strip, which for me is vastly easier since it requires me only to know what type of input I want to use and what type of output I want to use, where for ReWire 2 I just need to tell it that I want to use a ReWire 2 channel pair from NOTION 4 for the respective stereo track ; and for MIDI I just need to tell Digital Performer 8 where I want the MIDI sent, all of which is very easy to do . . .
Doing the audio part of ReWire 2 is easier in Logic Pro X compared to Logic Pro 9, but at present doing MIDI is not making so much sense to me for the scenario you described . . .
Regarding MIDI control change (CC) messages, NOTION 4 only supports a limited subset, so there is not so much that you can do in that respect, but you certainly can record the MIDI notes in the scenario I demonstrated in the YouTube video tutorial (
see above) . . .
I started with AudioDesk (MOTU) over a decade ago, which is the lite version of Digital Performer, and then upgraded to Digital Performer a while later; so I have a lot of stick time with Digital Performer, and it makes intuitive sense to me. With the other DAW applications, I need to do experiments and a bit of reading, but so what . . .
So what! The Logic Pro X user guide has detailed examples for doing MIDI with Reason, so if you have Reason 7.1 (Propellerhead Software), this is a good way to start. If you do not have Reason 7.1, then you can download the 30-day trial version and experiment with it . . .
Reason 7.1 Demo (Propellerhead Software)I like Reason 7.1 and the new Rack Extensions are fascinating . . .
For some genres, Reason 7.1 is necessary, but no matter what the musical genre might be, there are some Rack Extensions that make it very compelling, where as an example there is a Rack Extension which takes a MIDI sequence and makes it consistent with one of the various modes or scales, so if you have a melody and want it to be Lydian, then you can do this
automagically, which is something the Melody Editor (Celemony) also does but in a different way . . .
Auto-Theory Harmonic Engine (Pitchblende) Rack Extension ~ Propellerhead ShopMelodyne Editor (Celemony)SUMMARYYou can record MIDI sent from Digital Performer 8 in NOTION 4, and as time allows I will try to make sense of how this is done with Logic Pro X . . .
Lots of FUN! P. S. If nothing else works, there always are real instruments, which is fabulous . . .
"M-O-N-E-Y" (The Surf Whammys) ~ YouTube music videoFabulous!