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Can't send MIDI keyboard to through Mac to iPad with AudioBus

javelinajavelina
in General App Discussion

Just got an MacMini M1, and now trying to use it with my iPad 2018. What I want to do is plug in a MIDI keyboard into my Mac, and have it routed to the MIDI instruments on my iPad.

The MIDI instruments on my Mac see the keyboard but my iPad does not (tried with a M-Audio Keystation 32 and Korg Monologue). I have enabled the iPad in Audio MIDI setup. I have the iPad connected visa a USB-C cable. The Mac can see the iPad it because I can play instruments on the iPad to the audio in on the Mac in Garage Band.

On the iPad I am using Audiobus 3 - I have configured with IDAM MIDI Host as the MIDI in and tried several different synths as the MIDI out. The app keyboards work fine with the synths, but not any external keyboards. How do I pass the MIDI on my Mac to the iPad?

Note, I also tried a MIDI network session, with IAC Drive Bus 1 to the iPad, but that didn't work.

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  • wimwim
    edited June 2021

    The Mac won't route an external keyboard over IDAM to the iPad on its own. However, there's a way to do this using the free MidiPipe program on the Mac.

    1. Download and install MidiPipe
    2. Make the IDAM connection and then start MidiPipe
    3. On the left, under Tools in MidiPipe, double-click MIDI In to place it in the Pipes list on the right. Select that entry and then select the MIDI controller that is connected to your Mac for the MIDI Input in the area below.
    4. Now double-click MIDI Out to add it to the list, select it, and select iPad as the MIDI Output. (if it doesn't show, double-check iDAM connections Audio-MIDI setup.
    5. Select IDAM MIDI Host as the midi input from whatever host you're using.

    When set up correctly, your controller will play through to the iPad.

  • WillWill

    Because, Wim. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

  • javelinajavelina

    wim - appreciate the response, but I could not get MidiPipe to for for more than three seconds.

  • wimwim

    @javelina said:
    wim - appreciate the response, but I could not get MidiPipe to for for more than three seconds.

    That’s odd. It’s rock solid for me. Are you sure that it’s not iDAM that is crapping out? With some midi cables my iOS devices disconnect intermittently.

    You are keeping midi pipe running, right?

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @wim said:

    @javelina said:
    wim - appreciate the response, but I could not get MidiPipe to for for more than three seconds.

    That’s odd. It’s rock solid for me. Are you sure that it’s not iDAM that is crapping out? With some midi cables my iOS devices disconnect intermittently.

    You are keeping midi pipe running, right?

    It is reliable for me, too.

  • wimwim
    edited June 2021

    @javelina - Gotta be sure you don’t create a midi loop too. That could be easy to do if, for instance, you’re sending midi to the iPad and back from the iPad to the Mac.

    If you would like to try to sort the issues out, maybe provide specific details of your setup.

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