Please Help with Keyboard Midi Connection

Do you want to use it for input or as a sound generator?

In either case, the midi interface hardware you plugged the keyboard in should be listed in the Audio & MIDI Setup window. Does it?

Christian

If you want to use it for input, tick the box "Use This Port For Input". The red "Input Status" indicator should flash when you play the keys.

If you want to use it also for output, create a device description, and name it after your synth. Connect it to the USB MIDI port.

Then add the sounds you want HN to automatically select and play to the default soundbank.

If it's GM compatible synth, you can use "Bank >> Initialize General MIDI". That will insert all standard 128 sounds automatically.

There might be a midnam XML device description around on the net that you can download and import into HN. Google for "midnam" plus you synth's name. That would save you the work of entering all sounds by hand.

Once HN knows about the sounds your synth has to offer, go to the "Global Instruments" tab and select the sounds you want to play live.

Be sure you have "MIDI Through" turned on. Your live input is sent to the instrument you last selected, either in a song, an accompaniment pattern, or any of the sounds in the Audio & MIDI Setup window, or the global instruments.

If you don't select any instrument, the input is not forwarded.