MIDI Connection: How to Connect your MIDI Keyboard to your iPad, Mac, or PC Computer
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@syed omaeer well, good luck ...
i have an electric piano and a MacBook air, when i connect them with a midi to USB connector in order to play piano in to logic pro x, the sound still comes out the piano... what do i do??
For midi to iPad, this one should be a perfect one, it also has a charger portwww.amazon.com/Keyboard-Electronic-Instrument-Microphone-Compatible/dp/B08DMKM56Z/ref=mp_s_a_1_15?dchild=1&keywords=midi+cable+for+ipad&qid=1598009871&sr=8-15
Your videos are extremely helpful. My husband was my tech guy for my home studio. He died and now I am looking for answers for my simple tech problems (not so simple for me). Thank you!
My condolences and prayers for your healing heart 💗
OMG! I am returning a mini midi controller that I just bought from Amazon. I just found that my old 61 key Yamaha PSRE333 works as a midi controller for my iPhone thru this video! TYSM!
Thanks so much. Very clear and explained exactly what I needed to know. One of the best instruction videos I've seen.
This is a lovely piece of work. Incredible graphics and clear instruction. Thank you for all the work you have obviously done here.
Amazing, thank you for all your videos!! I've been trying to figure out how to record my keyboard for YEARS but didn't even know what terms to start my search. So glad I stumbled upon all your videos, such a huge help! :)
Happy to help!
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Wow, thanks!
Thank you! You covered USB C which most people don't.
Thank you so very much for clearing the murky Midi waters for me. To try understanding the very basics has been made very much easier. Thanks to you. I'm watching your great tutorials, which are produced in easy to understand language. Kind regards Old Bob!
I got mine hooked up yesterday thanks to your video! (My gf said to make sure I go back and let you know 😉 cos it’s polite)
Concise, informative video. Excellent!
A video on software to use would be an awesome extra video :)
Thanks for the thorough explanation!
Nicely done, thanks for posting. I'm just now wading into this territory, getting my ancient Korg DW-6000 to cooperate with various DAWs on the PC.
Thanks! Good luck 👍
Got me hooked-up. Thanks
you explain everything very deeply.keep sharing.thank you.
Thanks 🙏
Fantastic detailed video, many thanks - I'm about to go on the road, so this was invaluable advice.
This is the exact thing I was looking for. Thank you so much!
the best explanation on youtube! very clear and direct! tks
Deatailed and Easy to understand instructions😍
Your video is gold! thank you!!
Excellent! I'm using Windows and I'd forgotten that I need an 'Audio Interface'! Now I know :-) Been offered a free one but might just buy a brand new one instead. I've just bought an M-Audio Oxygen Pro 61 MKV for all my Midi Controlling needs.
Straight to the point👍 Very helpful. Thanks!!
Thank you for the excellent explanation. It was clear and concise.
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Thank you. Very useful
Happy to help 👍
Brilliant walkthrough - you've made it all so simple! Thanks! Really helpful
Thank you!!!! This is exactly I needed to know!!!
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This was great thank you.
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Glad it helped you. Thanks!
Multiple wishes here. I want to both play my strat over headphones and get a 2 octave electronic keyboard with a midi port ( and the standard 1/4 in off my strat.)and headphones out. I want to both practice keys and electric guitar over headphones but I want my interface part of my keyboard. Less individual items keeps me from losing things. I can't believe I have managed to keep the same strap,capo,tuner for over a year.
Excellent video cheers
Great video! Thanks so much for publishing 😃
Thanks! Glad you liked it
Very good! Thank you!!
Many thanks for this. Very useful.
Fantastic and what I needed, thanks
Thanks for the great summary.
Quite clarifying.
Thanks. Very informative.
Helpful video! I have almost everything, just missing a good computer/MacBook to start to record.
Great Video, Thank you.
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Thanks! Very good and clear!
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Glad you liked it!
Very Good Thanks
Solution for connecting Roland Fantom-0 synth to iPad Pro 2021 (USB-C):
1. Plug bluetooth midi adapter into the MIDI IN and MIDO OUT ports and pair with the iPad.
2. Plug USB-C to 3.5mm stereo (or mono) cable into L/MONO input port on Fantom-0 using a 3.5mm to 1/4 inch adapter. I used a Hyper++Drive 9 port hub for this with the USB-C cable plugged directly into my iPad Pro.
3. Go to “Effects Edit” on the Fantom menu and, in the OUTPUTS tab, route both the main and sub to MAIN+SUB.
4. Still in the Effects Edit menu, ensure AUDIO IN is selected by touching the tab at the bottom. A blue bar will appear at the top of that tab.
This worked for me anyway.
nice video! very interesting and informational. thanks
Thank you
Excellent Video. In using a keyboard that has only headphone 1/4 output there is a caution in using the headphone splitter identified in this video. I bought the 1/4 splitter so I could run one line to the interface and one to the headphones. Plugged in the adpater to the keyboard output. Headphones worked fine. Then plugged in the a single unbalanced 1/4 typical guitar cord from the splitter to the interface. Surpirse, your headphones will now be producing sound in only ONE headphone. I then bought another splitter. Same issue. It isn't the splitter. It is the cable you run from the splitter to the interface. I then bought a balanced 1/4 phono cable. Now I have stereo in the headpones and the interface is working as always. Great Midi signal. If you use a 3.5 headphone output I do not know if that will have the same problem. 1/4 balanced cables are more money and always have a second ring on the plug that alerts you that you are using a stereo cable. This series is wonderful for GB and electronic music recording in general. I learned quite a bit over the year from it. The MIDI and Audio connection video is priceless for getting both MIDI and Audio from my keyboard into GB.
Thank you for your helpful suggestions 👍
Excellent thank you
Very helpful. Thanks!
I have a Roland GO:Piano digital piano connected to my Windows 10 PC. The keyboard is recognized by a variety of piano teaching software, so the connection is fine. I'd like a simple program that displays a Piano keyboard and highlights the keys I'm playing, in a window on the PC. I would then show that window on a ZOOM video conference for teaching purposes. I've found lots of advanced software for composing and authoring, but not for just displaying the keyboard.
Thanks, that was helpful :)
Glad it helped!
I'm using Linux and have a DIN to USB cable converter. I learned the hard way.. Just like you said: Don't buy a cheap cable converter! So I finally purchased a Mio cable converter at Guitar Center, here in the US. It took hours of finding the right virtual patch cord configurations with the software that the Yoshimi MIDI application needed to communicate with. Qsynth and Qjack did the trick. (I think it was turning off either Qjack, Qsynth, or both before Yoshimi gave any audio sounds - Even after I stumbled across the right virtual patch configuaration) Now I have to figure out how to get some piano samples. :(
Thank you so much for your very helpful, thought through and nicely presented content! I absolutely enjoy watching your videos.
Is there a difference between the quality of these 2 options:
- USB connection from keyboard to phone/computer
- keyboard - interface - phone/computer
The sound of my recordings from keyboard to my phone (in garageband) via USB cable sounds terrible
I have a question about hooking up multiple midi devices at the same time. Ex. 1. OUT on device 1 goes to IN on device two. OUT on device 2 goes to IN on device 1. Everything works fine.
Ex 2. Now I want to connect three keyboards on the same chain. Do I just use OUT 1 to IN 2, then OUT 2 to IN 3, then back up the chain? Or do I chain devices 1 & 2 as indicated above and then use midi thru from device 1 or 2 to control device 3? I have successfully connected two Roland keyboards using the first as a controller for the second (as I described in the first example). What midi connects to I make to access keyboard 3 (or sound module like Integra 7), and from which keyboard? To keep it simple I have omitted using an interface or computer for this question.
Ex 3. (Question) What would I use midi thru for and how?
Thank you for your response.
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Thank you!
I play e-drums and can apply this so that I can record at home for the first time. I have a roland kit in storage, i'm going to experiment with this as I found that my guitar hero drums controller has a midi out port.
It seems i will need to buy a midi interface, what I understand is that it will separate/amplify the signals before it goes into the pc.
Thanks for the video.
Wow, great!! Thanks!
Thank you:)
thanks, well presented. Hobie from PHiladelphia
Thank god thought I needed a computer
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Thank you so much
I hv this cable news I'm using xp 30 Roland keyboard, n using nuendo also.
Great 👍
Would you consider making a video on how to set up Bluetooth keyboard for recording in logic?
I have the Roland Go piano (with Alexa). I want to record the piano, but I keep hooking the piano up as a speaker instead of an input. I don't see that option so I'm not sure if it isn't capable, or if I'm making a mistake somehow :/ LOVE YOUR CHANNEL BTW! :)
Hi, Thanks. I also have a Go Piano, you cannot record the sound of it using the Bluetooth, only make a MIDI connection, or as you have discovered, you can playback computer audio via the piano speakers. The only way to record the sound is via a cable.
Awesome video thanks!
I bought the usb 2.0 to lightening cable and it didn’t work! So I returned it after reading some other comments online saying the same thing. (Said not enough power or something ) so I would go with the second way of usb 2.0 then buying iPhone camera adapter. That works for me now.
Thanks for getting in touch. You need to buy the one that is powered - ie as well as lightning to USB it also allows you to connect your lightning power lead. Is that the one you have now?
thank you so much for the info!
Great explanation. Can you add info on latency comparison between those options for midi keyboard connection? What option is best for monitoring while recording?
Hi, latency will depend on a number of factors, but mostly on the kind of audio interface you are using and the way you set the buffer size etc. I have a number of ways of making MIDI connections, the one which seems to offer the best low latency is when I use MIDI cables connected to the MIDI i/o in my focusrite interface.
Thankfully for the video nice and clean, this is my question:
I have Arturia key lab esencial and just have midi thru, how I can connect to my iPad please help me thanks
I have the Roland keyboard which is great for Bluetooth connection but I am wondering if it is possible to connect it to my audio interface and how. Thanks!
Yes. See this video th-cam.com/video/vJD6RL_2yAc/w-d-xo.html
Hi nice women that helps me today. From France.... Thanks.
Thank you very much! Which keyboard is suitable for connecting to computer MacBookAir macOS to record notes in Finale program?
Can you write down the number of a modern Roland with the cable you mentioned? The salesmen in the stores don't always know everything. Irena. Nice to meet you!
You mention that the apple camera adapter needs to be powered. So how do I power it? I hope you see this.
Thanks
I have a yamaha mx 6 1 with audio midi cable port ( n old one that looked like it would work) which I connect to my IOS Mac. I press record and in my monitor headphones off the keyboard I. hear nice rich sounds. I then rewind and hit play in Garage band, and my track issues screechy, weak pulses instead of the rich bountiful sounds I heard on input. Help! Love. the clarity of video MIDI explanation btw!
Hmm, it sounds like you are listening to the sound of your keyboard. Do you want to record the sound of it? If you do then you need to watch this. th-cam.com/video/vJD6RL_2yAc/w-d-xo.html
But if you want to use it as a MIDI controller, then you need to have your headphones plugged into your computer or audio interface (if you are using one) to hear what is going on in Garageband
Good Video and I’m glad that you had made this video because I’m a Beginner my small set up includes a MacBook Pro 💻, a 4Port Hub a M-Audio MK3 Key Station midi controller that has usb & 1 Midi output & yesterday I had got my Akai MPD218 midi controller that has a USB connection a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd Generation audio interface a pair of Sony MDR-7506 headphones 🎧 a Rod pod mic & a pair of Silver Rokit KRK monitors. After looking at your video I’m going to end up ordering the Roland Um-one mk2 cords specifically to use with a external MIDI Sound Module like The Roland JV-1080 which has the MIDI in & Midi out connection which I will end up buying off of EBay or Guitar 🎸 Center. My question to you is how do I connect my USB midi controller that has a MIDI out with my Akai MPD218 USB Pad midi Controller ? My guess is to connect both to my 4port hub that is connected to my MacBook Pro 💻 Mid 2012 that’s my guess but I need to know how I can get the sounds loaded into my keyboard 🎹 controller & my Akai MPD218 USB midi Pad controller? Cause I’m thinking about starting out with Ableton live lite since it comes free with both of my midi controllers & not only that I don’t want to use Akai’s MPC Beats Software that comes with their controller simply because Ableton is the better & easier program to learn do you agree? Any advice will be appreciated. Marc
Thanks for sharing so much for free. Very helpful.
I own a Roland fp90x keyboard which should connect in midi to my PC. Connecting audio is quite straightforward but struggle with Midi. I can't find anything in the owner's manual. Any suggestions? Thanks
I have an IPad and an iPhone with a Roland Go Keys like you mentioned, I connected my keyboard to my (GarageBand) iPhone with Bluetooth, is it possible to connect my keyboard to my IPad as well but using a lightning usb with an android cord to the keyboard (usb), when i tried it out the keys from the Roland Go Keys on keyboard kept playing loud (I wanted GarageBand) with Roland piano sample keys going off when I press the key, how does the keyboard connect to IPad with headphones with only the GarageBand samples sounds being heard when I press the keys?❤ wonderful video by the way🎉
thank you
I need help please!
What if my keyboard only has two midi out ports? (For example the Fatar studio900) can i still use the midi to usb cable?
Hi there! your tutorials are awesome. I bought the Roland UM-ONE MK2. I connected the Midi In to Midi Out on my keyboard. I followed the connection diagram on your article. I downloaded the driver previously. I open Chordie App and it doesn't receive any input from my keyboard. I selected UM-ONE on the Midi Input Menu. I plugged in a midi controller with a usb cable and worked right away with the app. I don't understand what I did wrong
Great tutorial thank you. I have the Roland go key, I’m using Bluetooth to connect to garage band, how do I fix the latency?
thanks a loooot
I'm having trouble getting sound - connecting my Mac via Yamaha KX88 controller keyboard. Software is Finale v26.
Thank you
Thank you.
Hey and what is the PC your yousing and the software to ? And great work 👍👌💪😎🎹🎹🎹
I just came across your video which is very helpful. I have a Yahama YPT270 which doesn't have either a midi port or usb port. It has an Aux in port. Is there a way to set up the keyboard to an iPad to access piano learning apps? Thanks for your feedback.
I'm a bit confused about those midi cables... Are those the same as regular xlr cables? Thanks
Hi, ma'am, which connection is better, midi to interface or midi to direct mac or pc
I have a Tyros 1 which connects to my computer via USB cable, can I transfer Style files from PC to the Tyrus? Just found your site and will be back, nice clear instructions.
Will this allow you to send audio to the keyboard, use the keyboard as a speaker?
Thanks!
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed
So here my question (sorry if it sounds stupid): If I connect my synths to a controler (Roland Fantom), it should be enough for me to connect the MIDI/USB from the controler into the interface and from the interface to the computer (using the DAW as a mixer) and then the audio from all keyboards into the interface to the speakers? I just bought my Fantom and next step is the DAW (most likely Logic). I have never used an interface and I'm afraid my old school ways of doing things (way back in the 80s and 90s) is not how things are done today. So I am a little bit confused.
Great video. Could you make a video on studio desks? I want one for a 88 Key controller.
I'm trying to connect my Roland FP-30 to my MacBook Pro via Bluetooth.
I haven't had all that much success yet - is this because there is no MIDI out on this model of keyboard?
Sibelius is recognising it as an input device but no information is being sent.
Your videos are fab!
thanks
How would you connect a keyboard and drum machine to your laptop at the same time?
I mean I am already recording from focusrite with mics and laptop and it works great, but I would like to test if the sound would be better if I record directly with midi cables instead
I wonder if this video will help 🤔 th-cam.com/video/H0pUyixJ_A8/w-d-xo.html
how about the software what is the best software to get started with the midi keyboard? and does it needs a driver to install the application for the first time user?