[LAU] USB Compliant MIDI

Bob van der Poel bob at mellowood.ca
Thu Jun 16 00:21:20 CEST 2022


Thanks guys.

I see that Amazon has all kinds of lengths of cable. 10 ft. should be fine,
and for the same price I can get 16 which is even better. I have never
needed long cables in my studio so have no experience there.

Glad to hear that this should "just work". I was looking at the manual and
(unsurprisingly) they only mention connections to windows computers (as far
back as Vista). But, in the Amazon blurb they say that it'll work with
windows, mac and even android.

Thanks for dissuading me about connecting via old form MIDI. It was a
really dumb thought!

I'll be putting my WK-3000 in the closet for a well deserved rest. I fear
its days are numbered and don't want to be key-short when I'm doing a
project!


On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 3:04 PM David W. Jones <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

>
>
> On June 15, 2022 11:52:17 AM HST, Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca>
> wrote:
> > I'm looking at the Casio WK 6600 keyboard and see that the old fashioned
> > MIDI connectors are replaced with a USB - B connector. Can anyone answer:
> >
> > 1. These connections are okay to connect my linux desktop computer to the
> > keyboard using a standard USB A-B cable?
>
> Yes.
>
> >  2. How long can the MIDI cable be? I suppose if it's too short I could
> > always insert an extension cable?
>
> I don't know if there's a length limit. I think if the keyboard's in the
> same room as the computer, I don't think cables will be long enough to
> matter.
>
> > 3. Could I use a real MIDI cable from the computer and convert that to
> USB?
>
> If the keyboard doesn't *have* a MIDI port, why bother? My USB<>MIDI
> adaptor is powered via USB, so I think it might have to be plugged into the
> computer's USB, not the keyboard's USB.
>
>
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