PA600 and USB MIDI

citytrader · Post by **citytrader** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 2:22 pm

Hello to all, is possible to connect a piano that has only USB to my PA600 through the USB midi port?... I mean connect midi USB to USB

Thanks!

tacman7 · Post by **tacman7** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 2:45 pm

Depends on the piano, if your piano is smart enough to act like a computer host port then maybe, but I've never seen anything like that.

Can you try it?

Best solution is to get a good midi2usb multiport interface.

Like:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MIDISport2AE

I've not seen any midi communication between devices with usb unless there's a computer involved.

Are you going to use it with a computer? That could act as your midi interface, maybe.

citytrader · Post by **citytrader** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 2:52 pm

tacman7 wrote:Depends on the piano, if your piano is smart enough to act like a computer host port then maybe, but I've never seen anything like that.

Can you try it?

Best solution is to get a good midi2usb multiport interface.

Like:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MIDISport2AE

I've not seen any midi communication between devices with usb unless there's a computer involved.

Are you going to use it with a computer? That could act as your midi interface, maybe.

I don't have a way to test it

, the example of the connection that I will like to make could be a piano Yamaha P115 conected by USB to my PA600...

tacman7 · Post by **tacman7** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:09 pm

What workflo are you looking for?

Live performance with two keyboards?

Recording setup?

You could...

1. Get a keyboard with a legacy midi connector.

2. Get a laptop and run software to connect the two keyboards.
Any DAW software should be able to send the midi from one to the other.

Better to get one with a midi port, makes things really easy to play with just the two keyboards.

citytrader · Post by **citytrader** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:13 pm

tacman7 wrote:What workflo are you looking for?

Live performance with two keyboards?

Recording setup?

You could...

1. Get a keyboard with a legacy midi connector.

2. Get a laptop and run software to connect the two keyboards.
Any DAW software should be able to send the midi from one to the other.

Better to get one with a midi port, makes things really easy to play with just the two keyboards.

I want to connect a piano that does not have midi in/out, only usb midi to my PA600, most of the pianos I saw comes only with USB...

musiccankill · Post by **musiccankill** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:03 am

A good sollution to your problem is a raspberry pi transfering midi data from one usb port to another one. i had done it when i had the pa300 which has no MIDI I/O ports to connect a breath controller to it.
But if you know nothing about how to set it up it will not be the easiest way.