USB-MIDI driver for Casio Keyboards

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USB-MIDI driver for Casio Keyboards

I have a Casio CTK-4200 and want to connect it via MIDI to my MacBook Pro. I know Casio does not make a Mac driver but I really want this to work, as I had the keyboard before the MacBook. There was a post in 2007 where someone with the username ferland.francois posted a custom driver for Casio which seems to have worked in 2007. I downloaded it and restarted my MacBook and while I can find the driver in my audio drivers file, the keyboard does not show up in the Audio MIDI Setup application. I downloaded USBProber and the keyboard does show up there as a device "CASIO USB-MIDI".

Does anyone know how to get a hold of ferland.francois? Can anyone help me fix his driver? He hasn't updated on softpedia since 2013. I appreciate any help!

Here is the driver btw: https://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/Casio-USB-Midi-Driver.shtml

MacBook Pro 15", 10.14

Posted on Feb 2, 2019 3:18 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 2, 2019 9:45 PM in response to ExpensiveEstate

You answered your own question. Casio doesn't make a driver for Mac. This won't work.

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Answer 2

Feb 3, 2019 8:11 AM in response to panchososa694

Obviously I know that. However people make drivers all the time and there was one proven to work with Casio keyboards so there is a way for this to work. MIDI isn't that complicated

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Answer 3

dialabrain

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Feb 3, 2019 8:17 AM in response to ExpensiveEstate

FWIW, there was one driver proven to work approximately five years ago. Apparently "people" aren't making drivers for old Casios "all the time". The difficulty of writing a driver is immaterial.

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