Driver for Casio Privia MIDI over USB?

I wrote:

I am looking at the SCSI devices in the System Profiler ...

Oops. That should say USB instead of SCSI.

I have a similar problem with the Casio CTK-710 that I purchased yesterday. I would like to use it as an input keybaord for GarageBand but the only drivers that come with it are for Windows OS.

Did you ever resolve the problem? Do I even need a driver for Mac OSX?

If the keyboard has USB, try plugging it in. On my MacBook, I use Hardware Growler (or something like that) to tell me when devices are plugged and unplugged. If you install it, you'll see what your computer recognizes the USB device as immediately. I bought an Edirol MIDI to USB device for my boards and I don't think I installed any drivers (I may have, but I don't recall for sure. Still, I've had a lot of luck with OS X just plugging things in and seeing if they work).

iMac G5 20", MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I had tried connecting it and seeing if it worked. It did not. But, following your suggestion, I am looking at the SCSI devices in the System Profiler (via the "About this Mac apple menu item). One of the items is listed as "Vendor Specific", and has product ID 6802 and vendor ID 07CF. At www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids I find that 07CF is the ID for Casio, so that's my keyboard.

Still no luck in Garageband, though, so either I need a driver or I need to configure something in the OS.

Looking for MIDI in OSX help, I find Audio MIDI Setup, but as near as I can tell it is not listing my keyboard. There's an option to "Add Device" but it's not clear to me that this is the right thing to do (I will fiddle around with it, no pun intended).

There is also an Audio/MIDI panel in GarageBand preferences. This tells me "0 MIDI inputs detected".

Am I on the right track, or am I just wasting my time? If I can't resolve the problem soon I'll just return the keyboard to the store and look for a different model.

Thanks for any help.

More info. I got this response from Casio:

Thank you for your e-mail. As long
as you have a USB midi cable, A
program that uses general midi -
our keyboard should work with your
mac. However we do not offer support
on the midi and MacIntosh.

That makes me think things should be working, especially since the system profiler shows a USB entry for it. But how do I hook it up to GarageBand?

Attacking this from the GarageBand side... suppose it was all hooked up correctly and working. If I go into garageband, what would I have to do record music I was playing on the keyboard?

Straight up, I would recommend against ever doing business with a company that offers no support for their product. If it were me, I'd return it ASAP.

To use a keyboard in GB you select a software track and play.

To use a keyboard in GB you select a software track and play.

Am I correct in this interpretation? I open a new music project, dismiss the software keyboard, select the one track that was created by default, then poke keys on the external keyboard, and I should hear them via the mac. And if I click on the red record button at the bottom of the project I should hear any keypresses and see the tone recorded in the track.

thanks for your input

Yes

Straight up, I would recommend against ever doing
business with a company that offers no support for
their product. If it were me, I'd return it ASAP.

Looks like a good rule of thumb in this case. I have received more info from casio and they now admit the keyboard won't work with a mac (solely because they won't make the small investment of writing a driver; amazing). So back to WalMart it goes.

Thanks for your help,
Bob H

Sorry to hear about the added PITA, but, yeah, even if you could get it to work, you wouldn't know what problems await as other software is updated. Definitely stick to companies that offer full support for their products.

Do you have a particular feature set in mind? Many around here, including myself, have this M-Audio Keyboard It needs no drivers, you just plug it in and it works! I bought mine for $110, but as you can see from the link you can get it now for just under $88

It's a great little controller, and after 2 years I still have no complaints

--HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-)>

Note: I am an Amazon Associate, if you purchase this item via my link I will get a small commission)

In fact I do plan to buy the M-Audio 49e now. In all the web searching I've done in the past few days trying to find a way to get the casio keyboard to work, I kept coming across past user comments indicating satisfaction with the 49e. It's about $10 more but hey, at least it works!

Yeah, for $10, save yourself a WHOLE lot of trouble. And if you don't need some special feature that the casio offered, like I said, the Keystation has been problem-free for me, and really I can't rmeember ever seeing anyone having a problem with it.

Good luck! --Hang