Re: Having Trouble With My Yamaha KX8

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Re: Having Trouble With My Yamaha KX8

I'm a relative novice when it comes to using Logic and Mainstage but I am trying to get things going. I just bought a Yamaha KX8. There's just one problem. For some reason, at times Mainstage reads the keyboard and other times it doesn't. More often that not I'm rebooting my computer with the KX8 unplugged and then plugging it back in at restart. Then trying again leaving it plugged in during the restart. What should I do to ensure that Mainstage reads my controller time and time again? I have downloaded the driver that comes with the Yamaha, I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. Is there some step I've missed that would make this easier? Sorry for such a rudimentary question. But it's frustrating to unplug my controller after it works the night before, go off to work, and look forward to coming home and playing a little piano, and when I plug it back in, it no longer works.

Any ideas?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jun 8, 2009 9:12 PM

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Answer 1

carsimm

Level 1

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Jun 9, 2009 7:02 AM in response to MDu9110

I have a Roland RD-700 and the manual states to have it plugged in prior to turning on the computer.
Might be similar to your situation.

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Answer 2

Caramby

Level 4

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Jun 9, 2009 8:22 AM in response to MDu9110

carsimm is right that, depending on the driver, your device may need to be plugged in before booting; but I'm not sure if, from what you've said, you haven't already tried that.

As a less exasperating alternative, you could try switching off Core Audio & switching it on again (yes, I know that sounds like a joke!) — that might force the driver to take a fresh look around. Not a very healthy long-term workaround, though.

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Answer 3

gilapuki

Level 3

530 points

Jun 9, 2009 3:28 PM in response to MDu9110

Providing your controller is plugged into an USB socket before you start MainStage, it should be recognised.

I assume that you have saved your MainStage-Yamaha setup. 🙂

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Answer 4

Caramby

Level 4

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Jun 9, 2009 4:50 AM in response to MDu9110

It's very hard to follow, from what you've written, the sequence of events that have led to this problem. If you could explain it in more detail (& tell us more about your gear) that would certainly help.

But first — why are you disconnecting your controller?

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Answer 5

MDu9110 Author

Level 1

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Jun 9, 2009 7:04 AM in response to Caramby

I have to take my computer to work every day, and so I have to disconnect everything that I have plugged in at home when I go to work. And also, eventually I'd like to take my controller to gigs, ad so I would be disconnecting it from the MacBook frequently.

When I first downloaded Mainstage and Logic to my computer, I installed the driver for my Yamaha KX8, connected it via USB only, and it worked perfectly. The first time I unhooked it so I could take my computer to work, I came back and plugged it back into my computer and it did not work correctly. When I depress a key on the KX8, Mainstage does not read the depression. It acts like there is no controller present. I have a MacBook with 10.5.7 just recently upgraded. 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo processor. I am running the latest version of Mainstage and Logic 8.0. As far as what equipment I'm using, like I said I'm a novice. I am just using the USB connection of the Yamaha KX8, I am not connecting any MIDI. I hope this helps. I really just don't understand what happened. It worked great, I unplugged it once, and now I can't seem to get it to recognize my controller.

Like I said I apologize, I'm a novice.

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