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Problem with the iPad/CCK/MIDI controller: receiving signal, not making sound
I have an iPad mini running iOS 7.0.4 and the Lightning-to-USB CCK. I also use an app called MIDI Wrench, just to make sure that the iPad is receiving MIDI and it shows that my controller is plugged in. So when I plug the controller (an M-Audio Venom, which is 9V DC-powered) into the CCK, and strike some keys, MIDI Wrench shows me that it is in fact receiving MIDI. All is normal.
When I switch to an app, like Gadget in this case, it doesn't make sound when I play. If I press directly on the keys-on-screen, it still doesn't make sound. This is true with all of my instrument apps.
If I unplug the CCK, the on-screen keyboard works; plug it back in, it doesn't. I unplugged the USB cable from the CCK, and left the CCK in the iPad - the instruments worked (via the on-screen keyboard). I plugged it back in, and they didn't. I turned off the Venom while everything was plugged in - the instruments worked (via the on-screen keyboard). I turned it back on, and they stopped making sound.
This setup has worked for me before, it's just been a few months since I've used it - Gadget sparked my interest in iPad softsynths yet again. I've had it working with all of my instrument apps before, so why not now? What is going on?
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I wondered about the power issue, but the iPad does make sound (via the on-screen keyboard) with the iConnectMIDI2+ plugged in though. That is: iPad to iCM2+ to laptop: all is well. But in this case, I would like to bypass all of that and just take the controller right into the iPad, like I used to.
I don't know much about the M-Audio Venom, but just did a quick search and it seems that it is an audio/midi interface so my best guess is that when you plug it in it is acting as an audio interface as well. Try connecting something to the audio output of the keyboard and see if the ipad sounds are coming out of that.
It's not. The keyboard would have to send MIDI and receive audio through the same cable, which isn't possible (without iConnectivity's Audio PassThru, anyway).
except... it is. possible, I mean.
google showed me this: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=362349&view=next
erm, I mean you're right, that synth is rubbish, send it on over to me. I'll give you $10 for shipping. ;-)
@plazdiquehardt said:
Audio and midi through a cck is totally possible. I have an audio interface and 3 midi devices going through a usb hub and into the ipad via cck for my live setup. It really sounds like your keyboard is acting as an audio interface to me. I can't be totally sure as I don't have one but that is my best guess.
Huh. It works. I feel like a tool. Thank you.
Glad you got it working! Looks like an rad midi controller.
Yeah, I knew it had an audio interface, I just didn't know that it behaved that way with the iPad. I bought the Venom when there wasn't a whole lot of information about it and the company (M-Audio and Psycraft) stopped supporting it. This comes as a complete surprise to me. Well, my weekend's shot. Thanks again!