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Connecting MircroKorg using MIDI-USB cable

I am trying to connect a microkorg to my iMac using a midi to usb cable, to use it as a controller in logic pro 9, but I can't seem to get it to work.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Posted on Mar 19, 2013 12:24 PM

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Pancenter

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Mar 19, 2013 6:55 PM in response to The Art Of Sound

The Art Of Sound wrote:

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..

As luch would have it I checked the link he posted and realized I had one of those laying around, putchased on ebay for a few dollars I think. It's either not compatible with recent hardware or has a manufacturing defect.

It does seem to work ok.

quaristiceQT Author

Level 1

8 points

Mar 20, 2013 11:36 AM in response to Pancenter

Hello again, so I have an MPC 1000 which has midi in and out, I connected it and still nothing, no green light or anything detected in Logic. And to confirm the the IN plug is plugged in to the MIDI out port and I have also tried it the other way round in case the cables were labelled wrong.

Mar 20, 2013 11:56 AM in response to quaristiceQT

Then it does sound like you either have a faulty cable (most likely I think) or it's not fully compatible with recent OS's...(as per some of the comments on Amazon)

Sorry to hear this.. Such a pain... but really cheap cables/connectors can be quite unreliable unfortunately..

quaristiceQT Author

Level 1

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Mar 20, 2013 12:01 PM in response to The Art Of Sound

Yeah I think you're probably right, never mind

Connecting MircroKorg using MIDI-USB cable