I just purchased an MK XL+ and I'm loving it. I have the synth hooked up with TRL cables from the MK to my Focusrite Scarlett's 3/4 Inputs.
I can hear the synth just fine out of my monitors -- but Ableton does not recognize the MK as a midi-keyboard. I am connecting it to my PC using my old YAMAHA keyboard usb. I installed the windows drivers and then I installed the latest drivers from the official KORG website.
Someone, help me out! Why won't Ableton recognize the MK as a midi device? Is there any other way I can record the audio from the synth into ableton?
MK XL+ -- How to record audio into Ableton Live 9?
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Hi,
It is not clear to me what exactly you're looking for.
You're talking about how to record audio, while complaining the MK is not recognized as a midi device.
That are 2 different problems/things. Which one do you want?
1. Audio
You can only capture the audio via the L+R outputs as an analog signal on an mKXL+.
Your mKXL+ is already hooked up via TLR to your focusrite scarlett and you can hear the synth. Good! So if you want to record audio, choose the input of your focusrite as sound source in your DAW and record the stream.
2. MIDI
This does not contain any audio at all! This interface carries only event data - key down, key up, mod wheel and so on. It can do this in both directions.
a. you play on the mKXL+ and the notes you hit are sent to the sound engine of the synth (to generate audio) and over the MIDI interface so that your DAW can record the event data.
b. You DAW sends over the MIDI interface event data (e.g. previously recorded) to the sound engine in the synth (to generate audio).
The mKXL+ has 2 MIDI interfaces.
* USB connector - MIDI IN and MIDI OUT streams are sent over the USB. If you hook up the mKXL+ via this way, you need to install the KORG driver.
* MIDI IN/OUT connectors (DIN) - you don't need the KORG driver at all for these ones. Because it is the standard physical MIDI interface implementation.
The best option for the last option is to use a USB2MIDI cable. It is pretty standard these days and often recognized by windows without installing drivers for the cable. In your DAW you must select then the USB-MIDI cable as MIDI port to record or send event data. Other possibility is via another device (which seems it is what you are doing). (PC - USB cable - other device - std midi cable - mKXL). Then you're pretty much dependent on the USB drivers of that other device and the capabilities of that device. (It must support a MIDI THROUGH kind of mode and so on...). In your DAW you also need to select then that other device to get access to the MIDI stream to/from the mKXL.
Ciao.
It is not clear to me what exactly you're looking for.
You're talking about how to record audio, while complaining the MK is not recognized as a midi device.
That are 2 different problems/things. Which one do you want?
1. Audio
You can only capture the audio via the L+R outputs as an analog signal on an mKXL+.
Your mKXL+ is already hooked up via TLR to your focusrite scarlett and you can hear the synth. Good! So if you want to record audio, choose the input of your focusrite as sound source in your DAW and record the stream.
2. MIDI
This does not contain any audio at all! This interface carries only event data - key down, key up, mod wheel and so on. It can do this in both directions.
a. you play on the mKXL+ and the notes you hit are sent to the sound engine of the synth (to generate audio) and over the MIDI interface so that your DAW can record the event data.
b. You DAW sends over the MIDI interface event data (e.g. previously recorded) to the sound engine in the synth (to generate audio).
The mKXL+ has 2 MIDI interfaces.
* USB connector - MIDI IN and MIDI OUT streams are sent over the USB. If you hook up the mKXL+ via this way, you need to install the KORG driver.
* MIDI IN/OUT connectors (DIN) - you don't need the KORG driver at all for these ones. Because it is the standard physical MIDI interface implementation.
The best option for the last option is to use a USB2MIDI cable. It is pretty standard these days and often recognized by windows without installing drivers for the cable. In your DAW you must select then the USB-MIDI cable as MIDI port to record or send event data. Other possibility is via another device (which seems it is what you are doing). (PC - USB cable - other device - std midi cable - mKXL). Then you're pretty much dependent on the USB drivers of that other device and the capabilities of that device. (It must support a MIDI THROUGH kind of mode and so on...). In your DAW you also need to select then that other device to get access to the MIDI stream to/from the mKXL.
Ciao.
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