Connecting MircroKorg using MIDI-USB cable

So just to confirm,

With each of the midi cables plugged into each of the midi ports on your Microkorg (try them one at a time) and with a software instrument track selected...you do not see any midi notes appear in the bottom right hand side of the Transport bar in Logic, when you press keys on your Microkorg?

Umm...

The only thing I can think of.. is to do the following...

Unplug your Usb Cable form the Mac

Delete the USB2.0-MIDI 'device' from the Audio Midi Setup App

Reboot your Mac

Plug the USB cable back in

Go back into Audio Midi Setup and confirm it has been readded and the check box is checekd for "device is online'

Make sure below that, under Ports that the Midi Port shows up in the list... If not press the + button to the bottom left of that small window and add the Port Midi out = 1 and Midi in = 1

Now start up Logic again and test as before...

I just looked at the cable you purchased and realized I have one of those as well, I had it for a spare and to carry around. Does it have a small music clef picture on it? It works perfectly well with my PC and Mac, although on the Mac it took a restart to find it but it worked fine after that.

Let me ask this, it has a Red power light on it, is the light on? It also has a Green light when ever MIDI is transmitted from the keyboard, do you see that.

Make sure you're not plugged into a USB hub, plug directly into the Mac, and... also, while you're at it, try a different USB port.

Pancenter,

In case you missed this bit by the OP...

Ok so i'm in the Midi window of the Audio/Midi set up app and it has three things in in. "IAC Driver", "Network" and "USB2.0-MIDI" which I presume is what i'm looking for, where do I go from here?

...so it appears the USB Midi is being recognized by OS X... just no data is arriving at Logic it seems..

I checked with the OP to make sure it was 'online' too and it was....

The OP confirmed he was using the Midi Out port and not the Midi Thru port on his MicroKorg.. and we switched the cables over, just in case they were labelled incorrectly and still no go...

I also checked out the MicroKorg manual to check if the Korg had any form of software switch that turns outgoing Midi on and off.. and no.. there is nothing like that on the Korg...

Hence my loss of ideas.... and the way i was troubleshooting....

The only other thing that I can't check for but is a possibility, is that the Midi Out on his keyboard isn't functioning... or the cable itself is faulty...and Midi data is not being sent/received/Recognized by OS X...and therefore Logic.

One other idea... is to download the free Midi Montior from here...

http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/

If no data shows up there, we can rule out anything odd going on in Logic as a cause... and focus on the keyboard and/or the Midi cable itself..

There's two separate connections with a USB device, a data connection and a power connection, if the data connection is working the Computer may see the device but it will be nonfunctional, if the power is good but no data connection the device will power up (lights...etc) but not be seen by the computer. That why I asked about the two lights on the device, one is a power light (red) the second is a data light, (green)

That will definitely tell what's going on.

What about the lights on the device, are both red and green working? If you would just answer yes or no it would clear a lot of things up.

Ok, then there is no data being transferred from the Korg through the cable, if you said the korg works fine in other MIDI situations it must be the MIDI adapter.

The red light should be solid (power) and a blinking green light when the keyboard is played.

Probably, you do have the cable end marked IN plugged into the MIDI OUT port of the Korg.

There definitely should be a green light blinking everytime a MIDI signal is sent from the keyboard. Modulation wheel, keypress.. anything that sends a MIDI signal should make the green light blink if the cable is working correctly.

Do you have any other devices with a MIDI out?

You did try a different USB port.