Logic Pro 8 and Roland Fantom G 8

Question

Hi there fellow musicians!
I have a great wish to control my setup using Roland Fantom G8 keyboard.
Here is what I have,what I want to do and what issues I have with it:
I have Fantom G connected to Logic 8 on my MacBook via usb,
then midi out from Fantom through standard midi cable, connected to M-Audio Audiophile USB interface on my slave PC.
I use audio routing from PC back to Logic through ethernet cable (audioport)
I would like to record Midi (played on Fantom as a masterkeyboard through usb midi) on Logic, then get the midi that's been recorded to Fantom MIDI OUT so i can play all the stuff on my PC.
Well...its supposed to be simple but **** it isn't.
I get all sort of issues with it, first of all,
how to switch between external channels of Fantom, so I would send just one channel signal to logic, not all channels.
Then I dont know how to set up the midi tracks in Logic, so they could record midi from the certain midi channel and then transmit it to my pc using midi out of my Fantom.
I tried many things really,but cant get it right.
I guess the problem lies somewhere in Fantom. What I want is just simply 16 different midi channels to go through fantom midi out to pc and also want to be able to record midi on logic using roland's usb as a midi device for the logic's midi input.
Hope I was clear enough to explain what am I struggling with and...please,please help me. You are my only hope
Cheers,
Kuba

Answer 1

Well i hope my explanation helps to solve you your provlem.
Firstly, Cheer up......cos ur gonna get away wid the problem wid dis........
Lets start.......
1. Install all the softwares that came with Fantom G6 ( Fantom G drivers & Fantom g editor).
2. Connect your Fantom G via usb to ur Macbook.
3. Launch Logic. It will search for all the available audio units (including FantomG).
4. Start Logic with empty project. Create a new external midi track.(I hope u kno how to create external midi track. (If not then check out Logic's manual).
5. Now at this point if everything goes well, then you may see that logic created a track named grand piano. On the right hand side you can see in library tabs that GM device first track is selected. Now u should see Fantom G there right above the GM device on the first place. Click on that & click on channel 1. Now you should see that your track name is changed to Prg 0=11.
6. If u did this much correct. you are done & you are finished with the tough part....:) cheers.
7. Now On fantom G click on studio mode. Now you are on internal mixer of fantom g. Select any instrument u wanna select..on the first channel (by default it shows G-grand) you can select any instrument.
8. Here is something important......now since you wanna record midi on Logic which is an external sequencer you will have to move to external mixer on fantom g. To do this you have to click F8 twice on fantom g. That will take you to external mixer
9. Select channel 1 on fantom g. Now go to Logic. & hit record (R)......Now you'll be able to record midi to Logic & u may see data entered in Logic's sequencer...........:)
10. Likewise you may build your song by creating new tracks just the way you created this one & selecting different songs.......
I hope this helped........
Any further problems........you're most welcome...:)