Recording with MC5 and Roland RD-300GX

I have MC5 with a Rd-300GX using USB connection. I want all MIDI playing at this time, no audio.
 
A couple of things:

• When I record to MC5, seems like the events and the effects don't get recorded (it seems like they are getting sent based on the track view)
• When I play back, all events, instrument setting, etc are not being sent back

What configuration am I missing? Keyboard, MC5, both.
 
Thanks for the help.

I am using USB (orignal), drivers are working, I get sound, but it doesn't load the instrument selection and I can't get the drum track to map. I tried USB to midi cable, that didn't work. SO I am using straight USB-USB2

I am using a SB sound card, on board is turned off at the bios so XP doesn't pick it up.
I can get sound from the card (but I have unselected it in the output) and I am using Roland's USB driver, have the keyboard set to Orignal USB drive (which means Roland's driver).
 
Signals are going to the keyboard (it plays the MIDI), but events, velocity, pan, volume, instrument selection and drum mapping are not sent.
 
Right now, this is all pure MIDI and all of voices are that of the keyboard. Sound card is not slected as an output. But I have tested it and the card works. 
 

What effects are you using that don't get recorded? If they're the effects in the piano, those effects are applied to the audio output of the piano, they are not MIDI, so they won't get recorded in a MIDI track in MC.
Channel set-up is important when using MIDI. That might be why your instrument settings are not being sent, If they're all on the same channel, you'll only hear that 1 instrument. The default patch is piano.
Are you using channel 10 for your drum track? Channel 10 is reserved for drums in the General MIDI standard, but you can have drums on any channel.
Welcome to the forum.
 

 Thanks everyone for your assistance.

I am technically not using the sound card for anything, nor do I want to. I am using MC to capture (record) all the data sent by the keyboard and to send it back. I used to do this about 20 years ago and the old sequencer I had (Ballade) would capture events such as panning, echo, etc. and send the event back to my MIDI device.
The expectation was that I could send this information to MC5 and record it and it would then play it back. Understanding the effects are in the RD300. The expectation is not for MC5 to do the effects, just record the event signal and send it back to the RD300 and use the effects built in to the keyboard. Channel 10 is being used on the drum track, but that is my first problem mapping to the RD-300's drum patch. 
Seems there is a user problem. If anyone can point me to the area of the software I should be working in, I would really appreciate it.

Once again, thanks to everyone for their assistance.

d_w_music


 Thanks everyone for your assistance.

I am technically not using the sound card for anything, nor do I want to. I am using MC to capture (record) all the data sent by the keyboard and to send it back. I used to do this about 20 years ago and the old sequencer I had (Ballade) would capture events such as panning, echo, etc. and send the event back to my MIDI device.
The expectation was that I could send this information to MC5 and record it and it would then play it back. Understanding the effects are in the RD300. The expectation is not for MC5 to do the effects, just record the event signal and send it back to the RD300 and use the effects built in to the keyboard. Channel 10 is being used on the drum track, but that is my first problem mapping to the RD-300's drum patch. 
Seems there is a user problem. If anyone can point me to the area of the software I should be working in, I would really appreciate it.

Once again, thanks to everyone for their assistance.

hi d_w - which effects specifically are you not getting?  you mentioned panning and panning should work, but "echo" is not a General MIDI (GM) event, so that won't work.  after you record something from your keyboard, look at the EVENT list and see if the FX got recorded that you're trying to record.

yeah, as far as the SB card, I have to agree with robo that it's not the best, but it's still better than the onboard soundcard.

take a look at my web site. I have some stuff there that might help refresh you on the midi stuff.