[Lmuse-user] Please Help! I am about to rip my hair out.

[Jason J. <j...@po...>]

Hello all....  Please excuse the frustration, but I've been working with 
Muse trying to get it right now for at least a month.  I'm a 
"do-it-yourself" kind of guy, so.... this is my last hope.

I'm trying to do something that is evidently super simple, but I must be 
missing something cause it ain't working.  Here's my situation:

I've got a Roland RS-9 keyboard (GS) and a Soundblaster Audigy Pro EX 
sound card.  I've got my MIDI OUT on my keyboard plugged into my 
break-out panel's MIDI IN and the MIDI OUT on my keyboard plugged into 
the MIDI IN on the panel.

I've read the manual and all the tutorials I could find on how to record 
MIDI data from my keyboard with MusE.  Nothing too hard, right?  Yeah, I 
thought so too.

I know my ports (at least the output port) is set correctly because I 
can control my keyboard with MusE (I.E. changing the program in the MusE 
program correctly changes the program in my keyboard.  When I want a 
flute, I change the program to flute in MusE and my keyboard reflects 
those changes just fine.)  I assume this means the  keyboard / MusE MIDI 
setup is at least communicating.

My problem, however, doesn't have to do with the OUTPUT.  I cannot, for 
the life of me, get MusE to recognize any input from the keyboard.  I 
mean..  When I play my keyboard - MusE just sits there with a dumb smile 
on its face like its waiting for me to do something.

I hit record and play - the tracker (not sure of the proper terminology) 
bar moves along the tracks window like it should...  But when I play 
something...  that vertical tracker bar just keeps on trotting along the 
tracks window as if it were waiting for something.  Nothing (and I mean 
nothing) is recorded.  When I hit stop, it stops and rewinds itself to 
the beginning as if nothing had been recorded.  I hit play, and it won't 
move because there isn't anything in the track.

Also....  the midi-thru function of MusE has problems.

When I turn local control off on my keyboard - I can't hear anything 
through my computer.  I can hear my keyboard just fine when it's on - 
but nothing when it's off.

Oh...  I tried turning on / meddling with the metronome, and 
lo-and-behold,  I heard the metronome!  And it was being played through 
my keyboard!  When I turned down the volume on my keyboard, the metonome 
reflected it!  Not sure what that means, but...  I thought it'd help 
anyone understand a bit more of my problem.

I've tried switching the MIDI In/Out cables, to make sure it wasn't a 
faulty cable, and nothing changed - so... no faulty cables.

There's got to be some little thing I'm missing, and it's driving me 
nuts.  If anyone has any clue as to something I'm not doing, or missing, 
or doing wrong...  Please help.

I'll be more than happy to answer any questions regarding this 
problem...  I'm sure it's just some little thing I'm missing due to my 
ignorance.

Thanks for your patience.

frustrated,
Jason

PS - I used this same setup in windows to record with Cubase VST and it 
worked wonderfully....  So, I know it can be done with this setup.