I’m here less than two weeks and I see tutorials and the manuals, so much power under the hood of this program, it does bode for some excitement of possibilities for me as I learn more.
I liked getting the virtual keyboard going and using the keyboard shortcuts as piano keys. I then borrowed a digital piano or keyboard, hooked it up through USB, and thought I would have had an easy go of things. I’ve spent a few days, and no luck having that USB connected keyboard show up hardly. It doesn’t show up in the Mac OS system preferences, as a listed “Audio Device,” nor in Ardour.
Then, tonight, I launching Apple’s “Garage Band,” to my surprise, it played sounds from the USB connected, MIDI keyboard which the Mac system otherwise doesn’t recognize or list in the Audio Devices. So on some level, the system does see the keyboard enough for Garage Band to use it. Now, what is my shortcoming for getting Ardour to use it?
It must be frustrating to see guys like me come in grasping at so much to learn, and how slow we are to figure out what would be some basics. Yes, I had CoreMidi running, but I had not anywhere in the program (Mixer panel) identified that drop down menu to identify the MIDI input device. How nice to have that resolved, and to move forward. Thanks a ton.
