USB Midi Cable Lead Adaptor for Musical Keyboard to PC Laptop

Since my review below I have located this site that looks like the various drivers for the dongle.[...]Before I located this link - For one of my Win 7 pc's I had to use generic Yamaha drivers to get it to work.I bought this to use on my Windows 8 64bit laptop.It works perfectly straight out of the box, the laptop detected it and already had the drivers in win8.Connected to Anvil Studio midi software, it took all of 20 seconds to map it as a synthesizer and then it just worked flawlessly.I'm pushing loads of midi data through this across 16 channels at a very high rate on a test rig and it works absolutely fine - nothing is missed.It is being used it to run a lighting controller with complex program changes set at 1/124 apart and the lighting controller will flag up a fault if one occurs, no probs happening at all.From opening the box to up and running took less than 2 minutes. Brilliant.Fast delivery too - great company to deal with.

As with other reviewers purchased this as it was cheap and with the knowledge that if it didn't work it was worth the punt - but the time you spend trying to get it to work it's not worth it.Wouldn't work on windows 7 or XP for me even after trying driver tricks and reg edits from all over the net - so it's not plug and play.Could't receive any midi input again plugged into different keyboards and PCsCan't send or receive SYSEX data so if want to back up/save or update midi keyboard sounds and settings before fiddling with them you can forget it - to be fair the product discription doesn't say it can do Sysex - but I didn't think this was anything over what a midi interface should do.Purchased a more expensive (approx £30) device from a company who's name rhymes with Poland and it worked first time with Windows 7, XP, Midiox and submitting/receiving sysex data. Lovely.Perhaps in a particular environment it may work for you - but if it doesn't work after half hour of trying, get a different usb-midi interface.How do you give 0 stars?

IN and OUT are labeled the wrong way around. So if this doesn’t work for you, swap the leads over. Solved it for me. After doing that, it worked perfectly.

Does what it says on the tin..

I use a Yamaha Clavinova, connected to a Macbook Pro using Logic 9 Pro... this interface worked straight away as soon as I plugged it in... the software had no trouble recognising that it was there or playing the notes i pressed on the piano... however, as soon as you try and use the sustain pedal, then theres trouble! It seems to think the pedal is just another key and makes a distinct tone when your press (and depress) the pedal... It doesn't actually sustain anything... as you can imagine this is quite annoying! If you're using this for anything that requires use of pedals.. I wouldn't bother - otherwise, its fine... :) I'll be investing in a more expensive model I think! Thanks.

First of all let me start by just writing a few words giving you a sense of my technical background. I've been a music producer and a recording engineer in a past life, at one stage in my own studio. This was back in the day when reel to reel tape was the only option for laying down tracks, valve equipment was old hat (and not neveaux retro), and when MIDI was the next big thing. More recently I qualified with a BSc in IT and computing. With this background, I imagined I was well qualified to make this product work correctly. Not so; though I am probably able to review it with some authority.Put simply, I know my control-change data from note-off information, which is more than this product does.Here is what should happen: all MIDI data from the controlling device - in my case a not inexpensive Yamaha SY35 keyboard, should be translated accurately into the receiving device - the software on the other side of my USB port.What actually happens: some note-on note-off data gets through, but not if you play chopsticks any faster than walking pace. This means that some notes are missed in their entirety, while others will sound, but not stop when you release the key. As other reviewers have mentioned, you will get some truly 'creative' results if you deign to employ a pitch bend wheel (a very unmusical glissando that refuses to silence), or the modulation wheel to, for example, switch a simulated Leslie speaker from slow to fast). In the latter example the results are literally random - I couldn't achieve any type of repeatable results.Also mentioned in other reviews are that the MIDI cables are easily mixed up: the de facto and de jure standards for this are that 'IN' is plugged into 'OUT' and vice-versa. It may be confusing, but trust me, it has ever been thus with MIDI. I seem to have been sent an 'upgraded' model, whereby the manufacturer has swapped these labels around for reasons better known only to themselves.The driver business is also something of a red-herring. My product installed itself with a generic driver (on Windows XP 64Bit Edition), but this is to be expected as the operating system will apply whichever driver the chipset in the product identifies itself as needing. As most of these cheap controllers probably have the same basic chip inside them, it is to be expected that they will either all work with your OS, or not. But that is by the by.So to summarise, this product isn't worth your £5 note - no pun intended. What I have described above might seem overly technical, so I'll put it in layman's terms: if you expect to press notes and then to actually hear those notes (and no others) , this device is not for you. Do yourself a favour: don't punt the money hoping that it will work 'for simple occasional stuff' or 'for the kids to learn with'. Mine went wrong on around the third key press. Get a Yamaha UX16. They do work (and no I don't work for them).

After reading some of the reviews I was half expecting to have to find a driver for this cable or some other problem, so I was very pleased that it was so simple and straight forward to set up.I plugged it into my Yamaha keyboard and then into the computer's USB 2.0 port and it recognised the MIDI connection straight away with Windows 7 and running Cubase music software. No latency problems or glitches just a simple case of plug and play.The quality of the cable is very good as I wasn't expecting too much for the price but it's quite attractive, feels well made and rugged. A red light comes on to show it's powered and 2 other MIDI lights to show when you're playing and when you're recording which is really handy to check it's working ok and you've connected the MIDI IN/OUT the right way round...I often forget which way round the cables go if I haven't used it for a while.Indicator lights on a MIDI cable! what more can you want? Well worth it and delivery was prompt too.

Internet staat er vol mee. MIDI berichten komen via dit apparaatje niet goed door. Op diverse fora wordt deze midi interface afgekraakt en met goede reden.Het enige wat goed doorkomt zijn de pitch en modulation draaiwielen op mijn keyboard (Casio WK1800). De toetsen worden wel doorgegeven, maar alleen key pressed. Key release komt niet door - in ableton blijven de toestsen ingedrukt staan. Ook kun je en volgende toets niet indrukken.

El cable funciona perfectamente. Si vais a comprar dos que se van a conectar en el mismo PC preguntad al fabricante si se pueden conectar dos a la vez. Ya me paso con otra marca y no se podia: el PC se volvia idiota.

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Köpte den till ett "leksaks" keyboard, dvs ingen after touch eller andra finesser, har bara testat med midi out och windows 11, vet inte hur de andra funktionerna fungerar. men midi out fungerar som hoppats utan några problem.

ne fonctionne pas, renvoie d un 2 eme cable