mLAN System Setup A Getting Started Power User Guide (Windows) Phil Clendeninn Senior Product Specialist Technology Products ©Yamaha Corporation of America 1
• • • • • • • • • • • • *In this setup with Local Control OFF you would typically route signal back to the selected tone generator via track assignment in your sequencing software. mLAN System: Music Local Area Network This is an example setup for education purposes and by no means is the only configuration.
• up within a network. Or this may happen if the 01X was last running on a different clock setting. If this happens follow these simple steps: On the front panel of the 01X – To start the mLAN Driver: Press START> mLAN TOOLS> mLAN Start It will take a few seconds to launch. AUTO CONNECTOR • • • • • AUTO CONNECTOR is used when you are using a single connected device in a scenario where you are using just an 01X <-> computer, for example.
QWERTY: Place the cursor arrow on the icon itself - click on it and see the NODE INFORMATION dialog box for that item. Each device in the Network is technically called a 'Node'. There are three main graphic views you should become familiar with: AUDIO, MIDI, and WORDCLOCK. There are icons for each one on the tool bar.
an audio “snake”). You can make and break individual connections or entire selections as necessary. Spend some time making group connections and single connections. The skill of using the patchbay is an important one in any studio environment and is extremely powerful in the world of mLAN. You can configure almost anything you can dream up. It is basic signal routing but on a network scale. The Graphic Patchbay makes routing a much easier task. In our setup the 01X is the Master clock.
• There are 18 outputs from the Computer back to the 01X. These are subdivided into 16 bus channels plus monitor channels 17&18 - which will be used for stereo monitoring. How you take advantage of the 16 bus returns to the 01X will depend on exactly what you are attempting to do. In many cases a stereo return will be sufficient.
We will be using the following MIDI IN and OUT devices: mLAN16E MIDI IN: Port 1 < Computer 9 Internal Motif ES Port 2 < Computer 10 PLG150 Boards or external device Port 3 < Computer 11 Remote for Motif Rack Computer MIDI IN: Port Port Port Port Port Port Port Port Port Port Port Port 1 < 01X: DAW Remote 2 < 01X: MIDI A (back panel of 01X) 3 < 01X: MIDI B (back panel of 01X) 4 < 01X: Studio Manager 5 < 01X: Remote Motif ES Editor 6 (not available) 7 (not available) 8 (not available) 9 < mLAN16E: Motif E
Multi Part Editor for Motif ES: MIDI Setup • • 7th and 8th Ports. So the first port out is Port 6 (OUT). That’s why Ports 9 IN and 6 OUT. Open the “Multi-Part Editor for Motif ES 6/7/8” On the toolbar of the Editor you will find SETUP This double handshake communication is at the heart of the interface: you have the 01X and Computer communicating and you have the Computer and the Motif ES communicating.
(sometimes called “Thru” or “Soft Thru”) the signal and targets a specific module on a per track basis. 8) – this allows the Motif ES’s front panel to control the Motif Rack. Port Explanation: • The MIDI THRU Port parameter in the device setup should remain at “NONE”. The software sequencer will handle all MIDI Channel re-routing. If you find that pressing buttons is triggering MIDI note-on events, this “error” is usually caused by a MIDI loop.
node. In the screen shot above the mLAN16E node is lime green and so is its output snake. It is a bus carrying 16 cables. What is a bus? If you need to get across town – you might get on the bus – a bus moves one or more things from one place to another. The idea is it can carry more than just 1 person, and here it can carry more than just 1 signal. Following OUT to IN…the mLAN16E is set to send 16 buses to the 01X. These will arrive as mLAN 1 ~ mLAN16.
computer…it is your choice. This is just one particular setup. In this setup you could use the i88X to bring signal into the Motif ES for a highend sampling session. Part of what you want to do is understand what you have and then start to think about all the possibilities. There is no ‘one way’ to setup and work.
• • • With mLAN Wordclock you have an extremely stable source for digital synchronization (i.e., extremely low jitter). The advantage to using the 01X as the Master Wordclock is that if you decide to boot the system up without the computer, you can still pass audio from the Motif ES to the 01X via mLAN. (Try that with a USB based system!).
to be set to expect to receive via ASIO. What is meant here is the following…if you setup the mLAN Driver as instructed here, then open an audio project that was created using “WDM/KS” as the audio device – it is possible that the computer will crash. Or at least you will need to make new settings to the software and then you will have to restart the DAW.
