Oct 28, 2004 11:58 am what keyboard ya got? youll probably have to activate it or install drivers or something like that...
MIDI connection
Posted on Oct 27, 2004 08:52 pm
Alex Arthurs
Member Since: Oct 12, 2004
ok i just bought a midi cord, and i plugged it from my keyboard to my usb port.....
how do i get it working for vst instruments??
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Oct 28, 2004 11:58 am what keyboard ya got? youll probably have to activate it or install drivers or something like that...
Oct 28, 2004 10:51 pm Yes, keyboard type would help for sure. And I have never heard of a midi to USB connector before. Unless you are talking about a USB type keyboard which there are several of these types of units out there. Like dB or my sons Radium 49 which connect directly via USB. But you do need to install drivers for it to function.
Nov 01, 2004 10:58 pm ya its a pretty old keyboard, its a Casio
CTK-571, and i have nothing to install it with or anything?? please help!!!
Nov 02, 2004 09:10 am I'm not a MIDI person, but I'm tryin' to be. In my research, I have not come across and older keyboards - like the casio you describe - where you can just plug it into a USB port and have it work. I believe that you need some sort MIDI interface between the keyboard and your computer. I also believe that these come in either the USB variety, or your sound card might have a MIDI/joystick port on it. In the latter case, all you would need is a cable to run from the MIDI port on your sound card to your keyboard. I think that most MIDI recording software would recognize your keyboard at that point.
There are a lot of way smarter people around here that will either confirm or correct my beliefs!
Jim
Nov 02, 2004 09:12 am Go to HRC's Studio Equipment section to read about your various choices:
www.homerecordingconnecti...t&cat_id=12
Jim
Nov 02, 2004 12:05 pm I've never heard of a MIDI 5-pin DIN to USB cable before... not sure it's possible without some extra hardware or software controlling the signal routing. If you can provide a link or photo of the cable you bought it would be cool to see, not to mention benifical to you so we can help you out.
Nov 02, 2004 09:43 pm oh ya it actually does plug into my joystick port, it just didnt work, so i bought a usb converter for the end, but I'm still having problems getting it to work in my joystick port? I think i may need to install a driver or something??
Nov 02, 2004 10:24 pm the USB converter shouldn't work for MIDI, yes for Joysticks since they are plug-n-play but not for MIDI. You should connect the MIDI ends to your keyboard and the other back into your soundcard. My guess for why it didn't work is either improper connection (should be 'out' to 'in' and 'in' to 'out') or you need to reconfigure the MIDI settings on your soundcard/software.
Nov 03, 2004 04:30 am Hey el musico...
We had that problem also when first connecting a USB/MIDI cable from the electric piano to the sound card...but once we put the cable into the 'out' slot(d'oh)...it was all on.
The cable we bought had the installation CD with it.
Hope that helps...
Cheers,
BM
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