Not Picking Up MIDI Keyboard

I'm using MC5 on a Sony Vaiowith XP and Intel 4. (That what it says.. I'm not tech savvy...) I have a I have a MIDIsport Uno Ommi USB midi cable for my keyboard. I've plugged it in, chosen the sound from sound center, and I'm not getting signal from the keyboard. It shows up in the windows bar on the bottom of the screen, but no red light blinks. My keyboard is a Casio CTK-519 and I put it in Keyboard channel, which is MIDI. I have not installed the driver for the MIDI cord.. could that be effecting this at all?

did you add the uno to the OPTIONS>MIDI DEVICES as an INPUT?

Ok, I have installed the driver and the chord works now. On the bar at the bottom, it is showing that it's picking up a MIDI signal and when I hit record on an instrument, it is recording.

But, when I go to choose a sound from SoundCenter, no sound is playing. If I click one of the keys on screen after choosing a sound, the sound should play, but now it doesn't. (Before I installed the driver, Soundcenter worked fine) 

So, when I hit play to hear what I recorded, no sound..

I think I need to do my reasearch. I have no idea what some of that means. 

Basically, I go to "Insert Track", then "Instrument", then I choose something in soundcenter, then I play my keyboard. I'm not sure what soft synth is for, even after reading all the manuals and watching all the tutorials on the program and Youtube.

Beagle


did you add the uno to the OPTIONS>MIDI DEVICES as an INPUT?

in MC in the top menu, click on OPTIONS then click on MIDI DEVICES and look at the INPUT section and see if the UNO is selected and report back.

Input should be the midi keyboard's midi channel that it transmits on. From the midi input device.... In my DAW it is my Saffire channel 6

OUTPUT is MASTER. The master is the master buss that send the audio to the sound card you are using...

to test this and see the settings from DEFAULT.....

I loaded a NORMAL project, Ignored the tracks already there....I clicked INSERT> SOFT SYNTH>CAKEWALK SOUND CENTER and clicked OK

I editing the INPUT to indicate channel 6, saffire was there... that's my sound card....output was defaulted to the MASTER...

I played a note on the keyboard to check and the synth played whatever sound it loaded by default.

If you are getting the data into the track but no sound out, the problem lies between the track output and the sound card.  Track this errent signal down and be sure it's going to the right place.

NOW.... in my lappy, when I am not connected to my Saffire, I can not get it to show me the sound card in the project...so I have been unable to get sound from my lappy card. If yours is the same way, you might need the external interface. I tried all the drivers and ran the profiler and that card will just not show up in this lappy..... The profiler "sees and profiles" the audio devices but they do not show in the console view like the saffire does...... I'm simply pointing this out since I am one of only a few I ever recall that has this issue.

Below is a MC4 screen shot. You can see the 8 tracks in the project on the left side (they out put to the MASTER or one of the other FX busses....

then there are 3 tracks one of which is MASTER ( notice it's output is Focusrite Saffire) and the FX busses all output to the master......and the master output goes to the Saffire...

you can see the SAffire R&L on the very right with the red faders

That is what the signal path should look like. These are all audio tracks BUT the midi from CSC will go to a synth that outputs in an audio track so from there it is all the same.

I hope this helps

if you have it selected as INPUT in the MIDI DEVICES that I had you look at above then it shouldn't need driver reinstallation - why did you reinstall?

Beagle


if you have it selected as INPUT in the MIDI DEVICES that I had you look at above then it shouldn't need driver reinstallation - why did you reinstall?

I didn't reinstall. It just stopped sending/receiving signal

Which interface would you recommend?

Check on Beagles web site. He has a list of interfaces. I have a Focusrite Saffire. They ahve some new ones that are USB interfaces and are sweet, Saffire has nice preamps built in for mics and phantom power.

Also M-Audio makes some nice gear.

AND... cake walk has the UA-101 that many people are using. It has audio and midi in one box. Here

The USB interfaces will be more expensive that the UNO, but they will work so much better, and they do both audio and midi in one package with ASIO drivers.

check the features and prices before you buy something.

I believe that I have gotten the cord working properly again. Now, my only issue is with sound center. It is not emitting any sort of sound, not even a default. It worked perfectly fine before I installed the driver and started all of this. Now, when I go to choose a sound, none play. Even when I hit the little music note to hear a preview, nothing plays. I'm quite puzzled with this program. :/

Yes, I have everything routed the way yours is. 

My problem is when you open sound center and get the list and sub catagories of sounds. I choose one and it has the virtual keyboard at the bottom. I choose a sound and try to sample it by hitting the preview button and no sound comes out. I'm not trying to get connection from my keyboard right now.

It's so weird though. It worked fine before.

Flying Beagles, great now he can piddle on the lamp shades!

No i was busy all night, seemed i never sat down until around 10:00 P.M.