AKAI Synthstation 25?

Hi

Great..
I just downloaded te app but I don't know how to connect the SS to GB.
How did you do it?

grtz

Hi Nic

I don't know how to connect the SS25 to GB with midibridge. Can you tell me what I should do?

kind regards

Joey

Hi Joey,

Not 100% sure, but:

In MidiBridge do the following:

- make sure 'Run in Background' on the Preferences panel is 'On' (off by default)

- connect your SS25 to your iDevice

- touch the 'Akai SS25 Kb in' port on the left to highlight it green

- touch the 'MidiBridge' port on the right to connect

- touch the 'Akai SS25 Kb out' port to deselect

- switch to GB

GB should then see the events coming on MidiBridge's virtual destination (I think).

Maybe Andy could chime in if he had to use the 'localhost' trick with GB or what has to be set in GB to accept MIDI from an external source?

Regards, Nic.

> Maybe Andy could chime in

Ding Dong 😉

I've just repeated what Nic recommended and it works. I didn't need to fiddle with GB set-up at all.

-Andy

Hi Nic

This makes my day!

It works :-)

Thank you for the service.

Kind regards

Joey

Hi Nic

I have more questions..

Is it possible to reset midibrigde to it's original settings?

Why does midibridge appear twice (midibridge2) ? I realy didn't do anything it just suddenly appeared. I had to reinstall Midibridge again because I did't know how to connect SS25 to GB the previous method didn't work.

thanks in advance

regards

Joey

Hi Joey,

Sometimes this happens. For some reason CoreMIDI (in iOS) reports a ghost port for MidiBridge and you get the two ports. I think this is an issue with iOS where ports can hang around for some reason. The easy way to deal with this is just to turn off and on the SS25 which forces MidiBridge to rescan everything and the two ports should revert back to one. When there are two ports, everything gets confused and no-one knows which port is which.

MidiBridge remembers all ports it has seen and how you had them connected previously and re-instates those connections when the port appears again. To MidiBridge the ghost situation is interpreted as two newly seen ports which it doesn't equate with the corrrect single port.

If the power cycling the SS25 doesn't work and you still get the multiple ports, let me know and I can get you to do some tracing which might show something up..

Regards, Nic.

Hey, I bought the app for the $9, and I cant get it to work. And i dont understand how midi works, so the guide is lost on me. If you could help me out please.

SCratch this. i found a second pages thank you so much audeonic

I'll post this on KVR also, but here is my step-by-step sure fire recipe for getting the SS25 to work with GarageBand via MidiBridge (order is important):

1. Reboot the device to ensure starting from clean slate

2. Start MidiBridge first

3. In MidiBridge, connect 'Akai SS25 Kb' on left to 'MidiBridge' on right. Remove any other connections.

4. On MidiBridge Preferences page change 'Run in Background' to 'On' if not already set.

5. Press Home button and start GarageBand

GarageBand should now respond to SynthStation25

Nic from Audeonic Apps:

I downloaded your software and IT WORKS!!! YAY! Not only for me but my 13 year old daughter who plays multiple instruments that I've been helping learn to record using her Akai SS25 I got her for xmas this year. NOw she can use Garageband, then export to her iMac and further work on files, record her bass through the new fender bass amp (Bronco 40) with USB and then she can export to me using Logic Pro 9 and we can do vocals and more!

This has really opened up quite the world to us! THANK YOU for doing what Apple did not put natively into their own software!

😝

Regards, Patrick

Hello Patrick,

Thanks for your kind words and great to hear that MidiBridge is working well for you and your daughter with the SS25.

Regards, Nic.

I am very late to the party, but I wanted to publically acknowledge what an amazing program you have created! I have been downsizing my portable studio and really needed a way to use the SS25 with my iPods and iPad. Your program provided the solution and I happen to think you are undercharging. MidiBridge is not a workaround, but a utility app that is just as essential as a guitar cable is to a guitarist. Keep up the good work!

You can do it via Midibridge, 7$ on the appstore.

The app will catch signal from synthstation and let you connect it to garageband.

First- awesome app! Thanks. However- I am having trouble connect

Ting my SS25 to an iPad. I have the I extender chord connected. The SS25 does not appear on the left side when plugged in/ turned on in Midi bridge... Just the basic two. Am I missing something? Thanks for your help.