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33MainStage User Guide
Connect MIDI keyboards and modules to MainStage
You can connect a MIDI keyboard to your computer to play software instrument patches
or to use with external MIDI devices such as synthesizers or sound modules.
When you connect a device with MIDI In and MIDI Out ports, be sure to connect the MIDI
Out port to a MIDI In port on a MIDI interface, and connect the MIDI In port on the keyboard
to a MIDI Out port on the MIDI interface using MIDI cables.
Connect a MIDI keyboard
Do one of the following:
• For keyboard controllers without tone generators: You only need to connect the MIDI
Out port of the keyboard to a MIDI In port on your MIDI interface, using a MIDI cable.
• For keyboards with tone generators: You should also connect the MIDI Out port of the
MIDI interface to the keyboard MIDI In port. If your MIDI interface offers more than one
MIDI output, connect any other tone generators (or other MIDI devices, such as control
surfaces that require bidirectional MIDI communication) to these.