Q: What is the KB37 used primarily for?
A: It is a 37-key USB MIDI keyboard/control surface and TonePort USB audio interface. The KB37 will be able to send and receive MIDI CC information and process audio input and output across the USB connection to the host computer.
Q: What are the knobs in the center top of the keyboard for?
A: They are 4 software-assignable MIDI Continuous Control parameter knobs with 4 soft-buttons and a dedicated set of MIDI transport controls. The KB37 can control assignable MIDI parameters in most software synthesizer/samplers on the market today, along with most digital audio recording application sequencer track transport controls.
Note: The KB37 does not have any of it's own onboard sounds. It is a MIDI controller that sends MIDI data to the computer and any installed MIDI software synthesizer/sound software.
Q: What are the Audio Specs for the TonePort I/O section?
A: Sample rate conversion at 16 and 24 bit at 44.1, 48 and 96 kHz. 2 XLR inputs with mic preamps and +48V phantom power. 2 Guitar/Bass Inputs – use the Pad input for guitars and basses with high level pickup outputs, or the normal input. Dual analog VU meters (software assignable to input, record send, and output levels).
Q: Can I use GearBox editing software with the KB37?
A: Yes, the KB37 is a GearBox software supported TonePort family device.
Reference Links:
Assigning KB37 Transport Keys To Logic 7
MMC Input must be enabled in Logic 7 in order to receive MMC from the KB37.
- From the main application menu, open Preferences>MIDI
- Select the Sync tab
- Click the MIDI Sync Song Settings button in the bottom right; this launches the Song Settings dialog.
- In the section labeled "MIDI Machine Control (MMC)" check the "Listen to MMC Input" option
Note that this is a per-song option. To make this option global, you must modify your template file.
Open Line 6 Audio/MIDI devices.
- Go to the MIDI tab.
- Click the Settings button.
- Choose a preset from the presets list.
- For each transport control, change the "To MIDI Out" parameter to "MIDI CC", assign a MIDI CC (for this example, we'll use 20-24), and change Switch Mode to Momentary.
- Click the Apply button, name the preset, click the Save icon and click OK.
- Click OK on the next screen.
Assigning KB37 Transport Keys To Sonar 6
- Go to Options/MIDI Devices and choose the KB37 as the input device and choose OK.
- Go to Options/Controllers/Surfaces.
- Click the Add New Controller/Surface icon. For Controller/Surface, choose ACT MIDI Controller.
- Input port should be the KB37.
- Click OK.
- Go to Views/Toolbars and ensure Controllers/Surfaces is selected, then close the window.
- In the Controllers toolbar, click the Controllers/Surfaces Properties button that is at the right end of the Control Surfaces toolbar.
- Although you can choose any preset, the M-Audio Ozone is laid out closest to the KB37 layout, so use it for this example.
In the Controllers tab, you'll see 8 columns, each containing 4 three-row sections, three of which should be labeled "N/A".
- Go to the last of those 3 rows and click the n/a label to name it Rewind.
- Name the next 3 N/A fields from left to right: Stop, Play and Record.
- There is an empty field two slots below each of the labels.
- When you click the empty field for each of the 4 columns you just set up, press the corresponding transport button on the KB37 and it will be learned by Sonar.
- Go to the Options tab and under the Buttons category, drop down the second field to choose a control label and the third field to choose the transport control.
- Uncheck the "Exclude this button from ACT" setting each time.
- Click in the Presets field to name your new preset then hit the save icon.
- This preset will be stored and available to use with the KB37.
Control Garageband With KB37
- In order to control the Transport functions in Garageband with the KB37 you will need to have version 2.0.1 of Garageband or later.
- The Garageband software cannot do this natively and so you will need to download add-on software that permits MIDI messages to control the play and stop buttons in Garageband.
- GarageRemote is one such software and is available here: http://www.muratnkonar.com/otherstuff/garageremote/
- This software is from the company: murat n konar
- Once GarageRemote is installed and set up, start GarageRemote's Listener off by default) so that it can relay MIDI notifications to GarageBand. GarageBand responds to MIDI CC 007 and 010 for current track volume and pan, and these parameters can be assigned to the existing GarageBand MIDI preset of the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices settings.
Setting Up The KB37 Transport With Cubase
- The KB37 has control wheels and buttons like many other Mackie or others transport cotrollers.
- You can get the two working together by simply going into: device setup, click on the + button, add MIDI MACHINE CONTROL SLAVE, and select the Line 6 Toneport KB37 from the menu on the right.
In order to set the control on the KB37 itself you will need to go to: Line 6 Audio Midi Devices in your Control Panel and select the MIDI tab.
Setting Up The KB37 To Control Reason
- First, ensure that you have downloaded and installed the latest version of Line 6 Monkey.
- Run it and verify that your TonePort KB37 is running the latest driver, firmware and flash memory.
- Download the latest version of GearBox application and install it to your computer.
- Launch the "Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices" program from the Line 6/Tools folder.
- Next, make sure the KB37 is the active device.
- Select the MIDI tab and from the drop-down list of Controller Mapping applications, select Reason (version #).
- You are now ready to use the KB37's transport, Sound Select and 4 assignable real-time parameter controls with Reason. Keep in mind that you will be using the default parameter control settings. If you wish to customize those, click on the "Settings" button to access the Parameter Map screen.
- The drop-down list titled "MIDI CC/Action" is where you can modify which device parameters are to be controlled by the available controllers on the KB37. Keep in mind that each Reason Device has it's specific parameter CC# assignment. To access those values, refer to the "MIDI Implementation Chart" located in the Documentation folder within the Reason application folder on your computer's hard drive.