M- Audio Keystation Garageband

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I cannot get my iPad to recognise my M-Audio Keystation 61es when it is connected through my Audiobox iTwo. The Keystation is running off its mains power supply, and its MIDI Out port is connected to the Audiobox iTwo’s MIDI In port using a standard 5 pin DIN cable. Jan 18, 2019  How can I use an M-Audio Keystation 61es to record in GarageBand using my Audiobox iTwo? Asked Jan 18 in AudioBox i-Series by michaelhain (150 points) I cannot get my iPad to recognise my M-Audio Keystation 61es when it is connected through my Audiobox iTwo. The Keystation is running off its mains power supply, and its MIDI.

M- Audio Keystation Garageband

I just switched from Andriod to iPhone, and one of the big reasons for the switch was because of the music apps available on the iPhone. So after I got my iPhone, one of the first things I did was start looking into how I can connect my keyboard controller and use my phone as basically a portable synth module. I read that back on the old 30-pin iPhones, you could use the camera connection kit to connect to a usb midi interface. But I have a modern lightning iPhone, so I can't do that. But then it occurred to me that the cable that came with my iPhone is already a lightning to usb adapter, except that the gender on the usb side is male instead of female. So I bought a usb coupler to go to female, and connected it to my usb midi interface, and I tried playing my keyboard controller into Garage Band. It didn't work.

So what midi solutions are there for lightning? I mean, besides those crazy expensive interfaces like the iRig MIDI.

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  • The camera connection kit exist in lightning, that's what I use

  • You mentioned you have a ' lightning to USB adapter' which is actually just the lightning syncing and charging cable. It simply won't work with a USB MIDI keyboard.

    What you need is the 'Lightning to USB Camera adapter' which has a female USB on the other end. It is designed to turn your iPhone into a USB host, which can receive photos, host MIDI, and even support class compliant audio devices for audio recording.

    Just buy the apple branded item. Other manufacturers are known to have problems that make MIDI unusable.

  • Yeah, definitely get the Apple adapter. I use the short cable version. It stays attached much better. It is so cool being able to play into an iPhone and you get these awesome sounds coming out. Use some good headphones too.

  • Do you need suggestions on good synth or piano apps?

    Right off the bat I can recommend Garageband. It's cheap and is one of the easiest mutlitrack recorders to learn and use.

  • +1 on Garageband. Exceptional value for money and works nicely on phone sized screens

  • Thanks for your replies. Okay cool, I'll get the lightning camera adapter. And I already have Garageband on my iPhone, but if anyone has any recommendations for other synths or samplers, please let me know.

    Anyway, one question about the lightning adapter: I have an M-Audio Keystation keyboard controller, which has a midi out port, but it also has usb so you can go directly into a computer. So does anyone know if I can use the Keystation's usb port to just go right into the iPhone (through the lightning adapter)? It would be nice to not have to use a midi interface at all.

  • Yes it will work, I love the 32 keys version , I assume the other ones work too ?
    Don't forget to check nanostudio, Magellan , Sunvox, pixitracker,Cassini, mitosynth, thumbjam drumjam, seek-beat, triqtraq, figure,pepp, audioshare, audiobus, loopy, mtdaw, all the AUFXapps, and apesoft/amazing noise( idensity,stria,dedalus,reverb,pulsaret..)
    I personally prefer the iPad but.. The iPhone is so good for making music allready

    Ps: if you don T know where to start , just get nanostudio and audioshare

  • Keystation must be core midi compliant for it to work.

  • In addition to the recommends above? Animoog is also amazing.

  • Don't know how that question mark got in there! All the recommendations are ones I'd agree with.

  • The camera connection kit that I ordered came today, and I'm happy to report that it works great in garage band. I was playing around with the sampler function in garage band, and I was wondering if there's a way to map different samples to different keys spans within a single sample patch, instead of only having one single sample on each sample track. Like how a real hardware sampler would work. I couldn't find any way to do it. If there isn't a way to do it in GarageBand, is there another app that would be up to the task?

  • I guess my question would be more appropriate in a garage band forum. Fair enough.

  • edited October 2015

    @pierre said:
    The camera connection kit exist in lightning, that's what I use

    Do you use it with the iPhone? According to Apple, it is not compatible with iPhone - only iPad. Have you actually tried it to connect MIDI to an actual iPhone? Thanks.

  • edited October 2015

    @Hmtx said:
    You mentioned you have a ' lightning to USB adapter' which is actually just the lightning syncing and charging cable. It simply won't work with a USB MIDI keyboard.

    What you need is the 'Lightning to USB Camera adapter' which has a female USB on the other end. It is designed to turn your iPhone into a USB host, which can receive photos, host MIDI, and even support class compliant audio devices for audio recording.

    Just buy the apple branded item. Other manufacturers are known to have problems that make MIDI unusable.

    As mentioned above to @pierre, Apple says the camera adapter is not compatible with iPhone - only with iPad. And I have found it not to work. Have you used it with iPhone and did you find it to work?

  • @Martygras said:
    Yeah, definitely get the Apple adapter. I use the short cable version. It stays attached much better. It is so cool being able to play into an iPhone and you get these awesome sounds coming out. Use some good headphones too.

    Hi @Matygras, it sounds like you have used the Apple camera adapter to connect MIDI to the iPhone. Was this Lightning or 30-pin? And what MIDI controller and MIDI adapter dd you use? I can't get it to work with my Yamaha P105 into iPhone 6. Thanks!

  • @Explodey said:
    Thanks for your replies. Okay cool, I'll get the lightning camera adapter. And I already have Garageband on my iPhone, but if anyone has any recommendations for other synths or samplers, please let me know.

    Anyway, one question about the lightning adapter: I have an M-Audio Keystation keyboard controller, which has a midi out port, but it also has usb so you can go directly into a computer. So does anyone know if I can use the Keystation's usb port to just go right into the iPhone (through the lightning adapter)? It would be nice to not have to use a midi interface at all.

    Hi @Explodey - I'd very much like to know if you managed to get the Lightning-USB to make a MIDI connection to the iPhone. I am unable to make it work. How did you make out? And if you got it to work, what was the trick? Thanks.

  • I'd never thought to try the Camera Connection Kit with my iPhone, as I normally use my external MIDI controllers with my iPad. I just connected my XKey controller to my iPhone 6+ (iOS 9) with GarageBand, and it works as expected.

  • @crzycrs, I'm not sure what the question is, but to clarify, I was responding to @polarbreeze who was wondering if an iPhone would work with an external MIDI controller when connected with the Camera Connection Kit. And I confirmed that yes, it does.

  • Yes, of course, what's the problem, did 9 break it?

  • edited October 2015

    Yes, the CCK has worked on iPhones for USB midi and audio interfaces since iOS7 ( or 6?) I believe. There may be a minimum device requirement, perhaps when lightning was introduced, not sure.

  • Ooh and if you get the power warning you can just put a simple unpowered USB hub between the cck and your midi device. For midibkeyboards you can connect almost every keyboard this way.

  • @Jocphone said:
    +1 on Garageband. Exceptional value for money and works nicely on phone sized screens

    +2

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You can use a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) keyboard that connects to your Mac through a USB connector cable. In iLife ’11, GarageBand can apply the MIDI information to any Software Instrument, effectively turning your Mac into a fully functional music synthesizer. This functionality in iLife ’11’s GarageBand greatly expands range of sounds you can create.

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TheMIDI specifies how musical instruments with microprocessors can communicate with other microprocessor-controlled instruments or devices. Two popular models are the M-Audio Keystation 61es, available from the Apple Store, or the Keystation Pro 88, available from M-Audio.

M-audio Keystation Ipad Garageband

A USB MIDI keyboard is literally a plug-and-play keyboard. Just plug it in and start GarageBand. You can play your piano and organ riffs and have them translated into Software Instruments. Just follow the same instructions as though you were using the onscreen music keyboard.

If you don’t hear music from your USB MIDI keyboard, try these tricks to troubleshoot the problem:

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  • Make sure that the keyboard is connected to the USB port and the keyboard is turned on. When you first start a new song in GarageBand, a Software Instrument track labeled Grand Piano opens automatically — make sure that this track is still selected by clicking the track header.

  • Check to see that your system has detected the MIDI device. If you still don’t hear music, choose GarageBand→Preferences and click the Audio/MIDI button to see the Audio/MIDI pane. The MIDI status should indicate that your system detected at least one MIDI input; if it didn’t, you may have to troubleshoot your connection by using the Audio MIDI Setup utility.

    The Audio/MIDI pane detects the MIDI keyboard and lets you assign sound input and output.

  • See whether your USB MIDI keyboard is playing by watching the LCD display in GarageBand as you play. The tiny green MIDI status light in the lower left corner of the LCD display should flash every time you play a note. If you still aren’t hearing music, make sure that the Volume slider for the track isn’t positioned all the way to the left and turn up the output volume for your computer’s speakers or your external speakers.