Connecting Korg M50 to Logic Pro

MIDI has nothing to do with audio.

To record audio from your keyboard, you'll need to connect up the audio outputs to your computer's audio inputs (or through an audio interface if you are going to get one).

Sure, just like you can record any other audio source.

You'll really need to do some research, based on your requirements and budget.

You can always search the forum for interface suggestions, as you can understand that this isn't the first time this is asked here, and then check those suggestions out for yourself.

I'm sure you'll find something that fits your needs. You can try looking at the budget M-Audio range, or the low end Apogee devices, as a start.

You also really have to think about how you want to use this stuff. To use the Korg as a sound module and record each part in as audio would be pretty hopeless and ignore so much of the logic studio package's strengths. I'm guessing you aren't aware how good the included Logic plugs are.... and I'm guessing that you don't know that you now own the Korg also as an AU instrument which can be used inside logic, with the Korg hardware taking the strain. If it were not for the latter, I might have suggested that you do your sequencing inside the Korg, but since you can use it as an AU which mirrors your own keyboard..... well ask some more questions if you're confused, but better still, read around a little - you can waste a lot of money and time very quickly. The info will be in the box with the Korg and the AU included on a CD.

HTH

... just to be clear AU = audio unit = "plug-in" = 'tiny little korg' inside your logic setup on your mac which acts and sounds exactly like your big Korg because it's powered by your korg, but the sound is inside your mac while the physical keyboard etc. is outside. Like magic 🙂.

I have the Korg M50 , and I am running Logic 9.1.1 The AU Plugin works okay, but you still need to record audio into Logic when you are done sequencing - you can't really run it like a Virtual Instrument the way I thought you could. It is a good interface for controlling everything on the M50 but I have run into numerous bugs, like the M50 plugin forgetting every single instrument I set in a project and then having to go and choose them all.

Shame to hear that, and, of course you need to record other stuff in (I used built in inputs for years before I bought additional audio interfaces in the past; they're still pretty serviceable for a starter despite all the online diss'ing). Shame particularly because, on a kind of related note, I recently got the Korg legacy series years after release and they've been a revelation as plugs. I've been a Korg hardware fan since I played my first MS 20 in a shop back in the late 70's poss. early 80's (my main controller is still Korg) and these IMHO are the best software simulations of hardware I have ever used. They beat all the (very impressive) Arturia/NI/G force stuff I have tried and have been faultless thus far. Simply the best synth plugs I've ever laid my hands on. Just wanted to mention that somewhere, so sorry for the hijack 😉

Hi again rg,

You don't have to record them in terms of audio "sound" in at all. You can input midi data = 'notes you play on your keyboard' into logic and your Korg will sit inside Logic and the notes will come though Logic 'into your Korg' in inside logic itself and output through your laptop's outputs for now. The advantage of this is that you can use logic to edit all notes in the way a word processor edits letters and can still use the effects plug ins inside Logic. It's very simple once you start and you're in for a big surprise when you get in to the world of plug ins. My (very old) generation waited for many years for what you're about to experience...... so (in the nicest possible way 😉 ..... go and try it.... you have the Korg..... and if you have logic.... switch it on and waste hours experimenting in the kind of bliss that we all did when this technology first started arriving 🙂

(edit).... and yes, you can have as many tracks and 'Korgs' and other stuff as you wish. You might find that the included instruments stop you playing your Korg for more than a while.... 🙂

More than welcome 🙂

Hooold on,

Sorry Macdaddy.... have I got this wrong? I assumed that the AU supplied was a standard AU (like the legacy stuff I've been using).... I've only just thought about what you said and realised..... are you saying that it isn't an AU as advertised and that all the sound comes out of the actual Korg hardware? Doh - I thought it was acting kind of like an UAD plug and Novation stuff which I own! If so, I guess that still answers the OP's original question.... he can still do everything as he wanted above, but like you said, I thought it would be like a stand-alone in terms of residing inside logic. OK, my bad and I'd assumed the same as you. Still - it'll work the same (with the probs you have had I guess), but still the OP will get to experience the joys of EXS24 etc alongside it ...... I'll shut up about hardware I don't actually own now 😉