large, big-time basic stupid question

hello, i bought a cheapish yamaha keyboard (psr-270)with the hope of using the preset drums sounds as midi info so i could play and build drum parts and then tweak them as midi tracks (like the dude does at the beginning of the 001 video). i've like never done midi, so here's my question: i bought a midi cord that i plugged into the midi out of the kybrd and into the midi in of the 001. i got nothing registering in a midi track i created. i tried to run oms (they don't have a listing for the 270). i then looked at the manual--do i need another cord going from the 001 out back to the kybrd? many thanks and help a brother out, mp

Matt...Are you talking about some ready-made patterns,or just just individual hits,like Bass drum,snare,hi-hats and so on... Anyway,if that yamaha is your only sound source,you should also have a cable connected from 001 Midi out to Yamaha Midi in.

so yes . . . you need midi in and out cords to work with the midi stuff. Also . . . OMS doesn't support all triggers/synths. You can still use the keyboard, but you have to create an OMS system setup. On the Digi disk got ot the bugs/fixit file and create one through it. i had to do the same for my xp-30. and yes... this sux the big one.

thanks guys, i am trying to use the preset drum sets to play hit by hit--play a guitar part to a click and then go back and do the bass/snare then add the hats and ride and stuff. later, mp

Most inexpensive keyboards will still have a "General Midi" setting, sometimes just called "GM". Use that if you have it, then you can also load the patch name file for a "GM Instrument" in OMS and be able to use all the sounds easily. Also check to see if the keyboard has a "multi" mode, or "multi-channel" mode. Use that setting. GM keyboards usually start at about $250 or so. Hopefully, yours has that feature.