How to Connect a MIDI Keyboard to a Computer
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- In this video we learn how connect MIDI keyboards to our computer for recording!
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Finally someone that says how to connect the cables and not create a showcase about his luxury stuff hahaha thank you wonderfull video!
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wtf. this video never motioned how the small device is connected to the computer. all that was shown was the keyboard connected to the small device.
@@EternalResonance All interfaces ("the small device") are connected to your computer via a USB cable. I have two quarter-inch jacks on the front of my interface (a Scarlett 4i4), one of which doubles as an XLR input (for certain microphones). On the back are the two midi ports like what he is showing here. As I have an old midi keyboard that uses these types of ports, I'm watching this video to make sure I'm setting everything up right. But the interface itself is hooked up via a USB cable. Hope that helps.
As someone who has played the synth since the early 70's, in addition to working in software development since the late 80's....I needed some concise information on marrying the two and this video was perfect. Thank you!
What a nice compliment - thank you!
This is the best MIDI tutorial about MIDI connections I have found. Many thanks.
I concur
I've just watched three of your introductory videos and as a complete novice found them incredibly helpful. They have certainly explained a lot of issues for me. Looking forward to getting started. Thanks very much!
Awesome Mike!! Simple and easy to understand. I have a Nektar Impact LX25 controller and recently got a bargain on a novation x-station 25 synth. The bonus with the synth is it can also be used as just a controller but also has a built in 2 in 2 out audio interface as well. Now just got to get the right length cables for everything.
Thanks so much I was struggling for a week to make this work. A Pair of midi cables into my audio interface and the correct set up in the tracks and I am now working. I can now use the midi in Cake walk or my external keyborad sounds in my Roland RD700. Your videos are very clear and easy to follow. I am grateful
wow nobody on youtube explained the connection n recording so clearly like you did. thank you so much.
I spent several hours yesterday trying to get one of my synths and Cakewalk talking, without any luck. Then, as if CZcams sensed my problem, this vid popped up last night. Watched it and plugged things in again today and after a short time I had recorded a midi track and then made an audio track from that, just like you did here. Being I hadn't played piano in nearly a year, it was some pretty horrendous playing, but I don't care. I needed to start getting the basics together and you my dear friend Mike, made that happen for me.
As you may remember, I was a trained recording engineer back in the day, so I am really embarrassed to tell you what a major part of the issue I was having was. I forgot to turn on the track record assignment button. Repeatedly. Which is kinda funny as I didn't have any trouble remembering to do that with the mixer on my real world digital recorder. I guess trying to wrap my mind around this being done on a computer is screwing with my head.
Right now, I'm just experimenting a bit, but soon my new home studio will be put together and I intend to go through every one of your Cakewalk vids until it's second nature to me.
Thanks again, brother. You are the best.
Thank you so much for this perfect video! I followed your instructions, installed Cakewalk, connected my keyboard and it all works!!!!! Now I can start my pianolessons. Before I didn't know anything about keyboard and DAW. So I am really gratefull
I scouted the entire CZcams for a proper description of what I really needed to do. And this is the only channel that provided. You worn my subscription straight of.
I came with questions, and you answered all of them, in a way I could understand. Godbless you and good on you mate.
Other youtubers who want to teach, take notes.
Very nice instruction video not only for dummies! Thank you! Well done and pretty useful!
I had a great experience installing the M-Audio MIDI to USB interface. Worked first time!
This is the best tutorial about it I've ever found! Thanks a lot!
Very informative, straight forward, and very well presented!
I never could figure out how to make this work properly, and I usually know what I'm doing when it comes to computers.
Thanks, thumbs up & subscribed!
Nicely, kindly done! Hands on... Thank you and bless you❤
Useful as always - thanks & congratulations on Year 1!
All the energy I wasted trying to work this out!! Thank you so much for simplifying this. Finally I can record my synthesiser. Great video, thank you. Watching your channel like a hawk! Lol.
Thanks man... I don't know where I'd be without you
I know this is an old video but I really wish I saw this when it came out. I have a Roland FA 07 and when I finally got it setup (which took me a long time) I could only record the audio, like you would for electric guitar. That was great in itself but If I wanted to edit it later I'd have to re-record it. Watching this video helped me figure it out. Some just explain what to do or just show you (doesn't always help) You did both and I'm on my way, I already have a template with the 2 tracks already set up. Thank you so much all your videos are very helpful.
Hello from Kalamata Greece. Very useful basics
Detailed and clear explanation , thank you!
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation!
Simple and instructive, thank you so much!
Thank you Sir! This is extremely helpful for me. And well presented!
Awesome video, very informative!
Thank you so much. I finally got that Light Bulb moment after watching this this. Was very confused before.
Thank you for making it clear.
Now this is what I was looking for, thank you for this awesome video
Another great vid mike!!!!
Dear Mike, I have been going through every episode of yours and I have really been blessed to have you as a great technical Man, in the field of Music. The problem I am facing is I have been using my Roland E-09IN Keyboard routing the midi cables and the quarter inch cable through my Sonar V-100 Studio which was playing well till yesterday. Today I tried all the possible settings I could to enable my vst plugins sound through the Keyboard in my DAW , Cakewalk by Bandlabs. I have downloaded the updated drivers for the Sonar V-100 Studio but nothing has worked up. I tried changing from the V-100 studio and connected the connections but still the output sound of the Vst instruments are not heard when I strike the keys of the Keyboard, but the same VST instrument can be heard when played by the computer keys and mouse. Do you think Keyboards need to be set to factory reset so that everything works as before. Please help through your esteemed knowledge in this regards.. God Bless you brother.
Regards,
Barry
Thank you! You are the best at explaining this sort of thing 🙂
Thankyou so much for the very clear explanation!!
SO helpful, thank you!! 👌🏼👌🏼
This video was very helpful! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Very useful! Thanks!
Finally someone that give good information
YOU HELPED ME A LOT! THANKYOU... You're the best!!!
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My pleasure thank you!
Thank you so much for this! I've been trying to find a way to connect my keyboard to my computer for soooo long and you've helped me so much! Thank you!!!
Glad it helped!
This helped so much Thankyou!
Great video. Well explained. Thanks
this was really helpful.. thank you for your service
very clear!! thanks!
Great Job!!
best info on the subject thanks
great video! helped me understand how to use my EWI with cakewalk
Thanx for the help. Very helpful
Thank you so much, a real life saver.
Great videoes! Thank you!!!
Thank you.... excellent. Useful tips...It works...my old Korg TR61 workstation is now my midi keyboard...using USB port ..⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thanks for the video, will pass this along to my son
thank you, thank you, thank you for this!
Good and excellent explanation.
Glad you liked it!
Nice lesson, I assume one also has to connect the Audio interface's USB out to computer's USB port. Will this setup also work if I wish to set Sonar as MTC master and keyboard as MTC slave? This is basically to dump all my sequenced tracks from the keyboard into Sonar. Did this in the past from keyboard to Yamaha AW16G recorder.
Focusrite makes great, affordable audio interfaces with midi I/O. They have great preamps with mic and instrument inputs.
3 years late to this lesson. Love Cakewalk. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this information sir ❤️👍👍
My pleasure!
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very helpful video! i managed to record music with my fp30 with connecting only a usb/midi computer cable!
Thanks, needed a refresh as the last time I hooked my keyboard up to a computer it was my Roland D10 to an Atari STe running a hooky version of cubase! 🤭
Omg thank you so much
Is it possible to simultaneously feed a MIDI keyboard (in stereo), a condenser microphone, and a guitar? Would all of those inputs each require L/R inputs - if so, is there even an audio interface with that many XLR inputs? Or could you connect more than one audio interface to a single computer? I prefer them all to be in stereo, and on one instance, to also be able to setup separate L & R mics.
after watching stupid videos of people not knowing what their talking about, i found this video saw the branding heard the first few sentences and knew i was at the right place, i was the noob putting my cables in wrong, in 2 in and out 2 out, thank you so much for your help dude, really helpful i got lots of useful information to. have a good day, week and rest of the year.
great video
Hello, man! Thank you sooo much for these videos. I wanted to ask you a simple question: I have hours trying to map my navigation controllers to Cakewalk. I have an Oxygen 61 and it always work in others DAW like Protools, Reason, Cantabile just as plug and play. In this case I can't use REC, PLAY, FORWARD buttons to control the navigation bar :(. Once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH for helping people with your videos. :)
Now I know how to hook up my Yamaha keyboard as a midi controller to my laptop. Thank you! :-)
So a normal Keyboard can be connected. Correct?
@@amrishvijayvast Some can, some can't. Check the labelling on the connectors on your keyboard or check the manual.
Thank you Larry Yates for your kind response.
Thanks Mike for yet another informative video , I had make and copy a wave file from my finnished programed EZ drums toontrack onto another audio track so that I could mixdown (muting the original midi file) is this the only way to do this or is there a short cut ? cheers really enjoyed your pod cast ....how about a monthly review of a few subscribers finnished /unfinshed projects cheers paul b
I have only an Akai MPK mini, 25 key. The process is so much simpler for a midi keyboard because I am only controlling synths etc. If anything that's what I would recommend to people over the way you had to go about it here, typically. I actually did learn something though, as I do not have any synth keyboards myself.
Oh I agree very much! I mostly use virtual instruments and just hook up my controller keyboard. But some people just love particular sounds they get from an old synth.
Nice to see you got some sleep after your last broadcast.
I did! And now pushing on into my second year. But it was fun - so I gotta do it again. Next time a live tutorial of some kind.
Oooooohhhh !!!!😯😯😳 ... Gracias Sensei !! 👍
Subbed your channel
Thanks mate. =D
Hey there. I wanted to use my Behringer UMC22 Interface for recording my keyboard but it only got one of the big input ports. There is a 1/4"" jack labeled Inst-2 right next to it though. Can I just use this for stereo input or is it only for a seperate instrument?
Thank you.
Thanks, I was gifted an old Ensoniq keyboard and I'd like to get B3 sound. Do you recommend a vst and controller? Thanks again.
This so helpful sir thanks. And also can you please make a video for output to a Passive speaker from a midi keyboard to play.
Hi! Excellent video. Clear information with simple illustrations. Perhaps you could advise me! I have a Roland RD 2000 and a Korg Kronos 2 61 note synth. I am using Cubase Pro and an M Audio Air 192/6 interface connected to a MacBook. I can connect both of these keyboards to control Cubase using a USB cable. However, if I want to record the Kronos sounds, the only way I seem to be able to do it is to record audio directly by connecting output cables from the keyboard to the USB interface. There must be a simpler way to do this! When I was trialling Logic, I was able to record audio from the Kronos and RD 2000 via USB but cannot manage to do this in Cubase. I have set up both my instruments as plugins in Cubase but still unable to record audio output. Help!
Hi, thank you for the video.
My midi keyboard only has a USB port as output and I want to use my audio interface (Focusrite) as the soundcard. How do I connect my midi controller to my audio interface's MIDI in Out port?
The reason I want this is to avoid using the computer's processing power and reduce the lag time.
Hope you can help me.
Thank you and greetings from Indonesia ✌🏻
You have answered one puzzle: I bought one of those cheap cable rigs and the computer saw the device, but it wouldn't play in MuseScore. Looks like it doesn't work - the "In" and "Out" lights don't light at all when I play. THANK YOU!
Hi Mike, thanks for this instructive video. In your demonstration you connected your midi keyboard, i.e. the one with its own sounds through the midi interface to the computer. But how about situations when you use a midi controller keyboard with a sound module? I have an old digital piano and an old sound module, neither with USB ports and have had trouble getting to connect them both to the computer successfully. I use a simple interface, a little black box with IN, OUT and TRHU ports, as well as the USB port, of course. The sound module has two INs, one OUT as well as a THRU port. Could you help me work out what cable goes where?! Many thanks.
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Thanks for the video. Do you by any chance have a video on how to set up Integra 7 or any other sound module to the computer alongside a MIDI keyboard.
Great video Mike, very instructive. I am a DAW newbie, and I have one question related to the impossibity (mentioned in your video) to record mp3 or vaw audio from midi tracks recorded with the keyboard. I understand the reason of this: MIDI information is not sound but only events. Suppose I would like to record a MIDI track using my synth, so as to take advantage of all the nice MIDI clip correction/editing features, until I get the MIDI track I wanted. I suppose there is there a way to "copy" this MIDI track into an audio track (e.g., within Cakewalk), so that the track sound will be audible in the final wav or mp3 song, do you confirm? Thank you so much!
I think now days...as of just lately you can convert MIDI to AUDIO and AUDIO TO MIDI. Bandlab can do it I'm pretty sure.
Hi, Mike. You are probably the person who would tell me how to make Cakewalk by Bandlab and Yamaha Motif rack XS work together. Thank you in advance from California.
Great video, Mike! My question is, Are there different types of midi cables? Are the ones on Amazon ok to buy? Thanks so much!
Just installed Cakewalk and have linked my Yamaha E443 to my computer via a USB cable (that is the only connection at the back of the keyboard). I have also downloaded the Yamaha Midi Controller software. Keys are recognies by Cakewalk because I can see the volumn spike but it will not record. I have downloaded an audio file (chord progression files) and they work OK with the sound coming through the keyboard. I have followed one of your videos on how to configure the inpuit and output (How to Connect a MIDI ketboard to a computer, but not having muck luck. Rather frustrating. Help
Hey again!
Is it posible to send midi out to a into a pc to trigger virtual instruments then back out to keyboard. We want the sound to come out thru the keyboard outputs instead of the interface?
Weird I have the same UA-25 Audio capture ! I have had use it before with studio cakewalk but now I want to use it with Band in a box and no luck , Band in a box is 2019 and the UA-25 might be a 100 years old, I start thinking they are compatible or maybe I need the UA-25 driver for Mac
What do you think ?
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Hi Mike
I have a midi casio keyboard WK3500 which I have connected to my pc using the recommended Roland UM-ONE mk2 midi usb cable. As this is not an interface with audio jack sockets, how do I connect up to record the midi information to an audio track as I do not have a jack socket on my pc.
I am a newbie and find your videos a big help. Can you help with this?
Clive
Thanks for the video.
I plan to buy some audio interface for my midi controller keyboard to improve recording sound quality.
As I understand, it is impossible to connect my midi controller keyboard to some audio interface using USB cable.
The only option is a midi cable. Is that right?
So, when I use the usb to host,to the computer dont need an interfaz, right?
I have a yamaha mx61,
Thank you for your answer!
I just posted a question to Mike or anyone, as to whether I can connect a MIDI keyboard by USB to my computer and at the same time connect a USB interface using one of the other USB ports.
Very nice video. Thank you. However, I still seem to have problems interfacing my Kurzweil KP110 keyboard to the
PlaygrandSessions software on my laptop, thru a USB cable. Although according to the manufacturer this
keyboard is MIDI able (default settings: MIDI IN: All channels, MIDI OUT: channel 1), the software does not recognize it,
and the computer recognizes it as a 'USB Audio Device'. I searched to see if there is a specific driver that I have to install
on the laptop, but didn't find anything. Any advice you may have to rectify the problem is much appreciated.
Regards,
Othon
after all, should I connect the synthesizer with a USB to my computer or should I get the audio interface and do these ins and outs?
hey I wanted urgently to connect USB MIDI to record live in Zenbeats or in Cakewalk or in Pro tools, is that possible?
How did you get the USB cable input as an option in Cakewalk?
I have a Yamaha digital piano (P-35) and have midi input/outputs. I was wondering if the midi to USB would work with Ableton Live 10. Any idea?
Thanks ,Mike for your video.Its a little bit different with digital piano Yamaha p-125.It has only usb connection not midi connections with in and out.I have only usb recording iterface Focusrite Scarlet 2i2.my question is can i connect Yamaha directly with my laptop?