Johnmcmanus
New member
Hello,
I am new to this form but maybe someone can help me out.
Basically I have this digital piano that has a brand that the internet has barely heard of
Its called "Berkely RP1"
to cut a long story short, I want to use this piano as a MIDI controller in order to control VST instruments in my DAW (ableton Live 8.2.2). The piano does have MIDI in/out ports so I got this MIDI to USB cable that doesn't even have a brand which i bought off ebay for about £3.
Its designed to plug and play but of course I encountered an error.
I plugged in the midi cables into the midi ports IN to OUT and OUT to IN and then the USB in to my computer (running windows 7 if that's of any relevance) then i opened up ableton.
When I went into the MIDI sync tab, it had this info
input: usb2.0 MIDI
output: microsoft gs wavetable blah something or other
output: usb2.0 MIDI
output: MIDIOUT2 (usb2.0-MIDI)
track was on for the input, however when i pressed any key on my piano, there was no midi being triggered.
furthermore, no lights would blink on MIDI - USB interface
ultimately i narrowed it down to the piano being the problem; there is no setting on it to put it into midi or even select a midi channel. Nothing.
I have no idea what to do
any suggestions?
I am new to this form but maybe someone can help me out.
Basically I have this digital piano that has a brand that the internet has barely heard of
Its called "Berkely RP1"
to cut a long story short, I want to use this piano as a MIDI controller in order to control VST instruments in my DAW (ableton Live 8.2.2). The piano does have MIDI in/out ports so I got this MIDI to USB cable that doesn't even have a brand which i bought off ebay for about £3.
Its designed to plug and play but of course I encountered an error.
I plugged in the midi cables into the midi ports IN to OUT and OUT to IN and then the USB in to my computer (running windows 7 if that's of any relevance) then i opened up ableton.
When I went into the MIDI sync tab, it had this info
input: usb2.0 MIDI
output: microsoft gs wavetable blah something or other
output: usb2.0 MIDI
output: MIDIOUT2 (usb2.0-MIDI)
track was on for the input, however when i pressed any key on my piano, there was no midi being triggered.
furthermore, no lights would blink on MIDI - USB interface
ultimately i narrowed it down to the piano being the problem; there is no setting on it to put it into midi or even select a midi channel. Nothing.
I have no idea what to do
any suggestions?
