: Connecting Maschine to Synth I have a Yamaha MO8 and have just purchased Maschine (Native instruments) Can I set it up so that I can play the synth and have the sounds from Maschine play and record? I know I can purchase

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Without a DAW
Connect MIDI-out port of Yamaha MO8 to MIDI-in port of Maschine with a MIDI cable. This way you can directly trigger Maschine sounds from Yamaha O8. Maschine will playback the MIDI channel picked on Yamaha O8.
[Yamaha MO8] MIDI-out >---> MIDI-in [Maschine] USB --- USB [PC] >---> Audio OUT

With your DAW
The other way is to use your DAW for the routing.

Connect your both devices' MIDI or USB ports to your computer.

Create an empty MIDI channel on your DAW.

Set Yamaha MO8 to MIDI-In of the Maschine plug-in instrument of that channel.
In some DAW's you can directly send Yamaha MO8 to the plug-in instrument as MIDI-in.

If necessary, adjust MIDI channel numbers for ins and outs.

For the stand alone version, most stand alone synths have an option for that but it may be different for Maschine's case because of NI's marketing strategy. In this case you can always use the first option above (Without a DAW).
I think connecting Yamaha MO8 to Maschine hardware directly with MIDI cable is a better solution becasue you can use both hardware for input directly without any extra work. Doing that within the DAW may need extra work and complicated routing. Actually it depends on what will you do with them.

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I have finally got this working.

The MO8 had its midi setting set to "midi" which made sense, but it should have been set to "USB" , which does beg the question of why it showed up on the mac at all?

Once I change that, maschine started working correctly without the random notes.