Setting Up a MIDI Keyboard

[djkingpin]

I recently bought a MIDI to USB cable that connects my laptop to my electric piano/MIDI Keyboard. However, I cannot get any presets to recognise that there is a MIDI Keyboard connected to my laptop. So how can I effectively set up my MIDI Keyboard to work with LMMS?

[zonkmachine]

OS?
lmms version?
What Keyboard have you got?

have you managed to control anything else from that keyboard?

[lazerblade]

1. Click the tool icon next to the track you want your keyboard to send notes to
2. Go under MIDI->Input
3. Select "MIDI USB" or whatever similar option looks like your midi keyboard


I'm just assuming that when you say "preset" you mean "track."

[djkingpin]

My reply to Owallgren: Windows 7; LMMS version 0.4.13; Yamaha Education Suite 2

My reply to LaserBlade: I tried that, but like I was saying, I couldn't get LMMS to display "MIDI USB". I did eventually (after the post) but I still could not controll a preset (track) after I had selected it.

[djkingpin]

Seriously guys, is there anything left i can do?

[orpheon7]

I'm not sure whether this could work, but you might be able to make the keyboard work with JACK and send in the midi input that way. Idk.
And that wouldn't work with windows anyways.

No, sorry, no idea.

[lazerblade]

I have used Jack for just this purpose in Linux, but it should work in Windows as well unless you don't have all your drivers.

[djkingpin]

I installed JACK, but I can't find a place to download RealTime so that I can use JACK.