roncadillac
Platinum Member
I have an alesis nitro mesh kit with a USB B out and a laptop with a USB port and cakewalk. Cakewalk can receive midi data and has pre-loaded drum plug in's and my alesis nitro mesh manual states I can send midi data to a computer via the USB B port.
So my question is regarding set up and equipment... Can I literally just get a USB to USB B wire to plug my nitro mesh module into my computer to capture midi 'recordings' (I know it's not actual live audio) in Cakewalk or do I need something else, like an audio interface, for the computer and alesis module to communicate? The alesis manual makes it sound like I can just plug and play, I know Cakewalk supports midi, and it has pre-loaded plug-in's for me to assign sounds to the midi data.
Side note: I was able to capture some pretty impressive quality raw audio running 1/4" stereo out from the nitro module into the 1/8" mic-in on my laptop via a y-splitter cable dumped into audacity.
So my question is regarding set up and equipment... Can I literally just get a USB to USB B wire to plug my nitro mesh module into my computer to capture midi 'recordings' (I know it's not actual live audio) in Cakewalk or do I need something else, like an audio interface, for the computer and alesis module to communicate? The alesis manual makes it sound like I can just plug and play, I know Cakewalk supports midi, and it has pre-loaded plug-in's for me to assign sounds to the midi data.
Side note: I was able to capture some pretty impressive quality raw audio running 1/4" stereo out from the nitro module into the 1/8" mic-in on my laptop via a y-splitter cable dumped into audacity.
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