A standard USB-MIDI adapter is also a "device" type, so even with electrical adapter to convert USB A to USB B it would be like hooking two televisions via antenna cable - quite useless.
#USB TO 5 PIN DIN MIDI CONVERTER PC#
For "nice to know" extra information: the USB MIDI in your DP is most likely "device" type, meant to be connected to a "host" like PC (alternate terms to device/host are slave/master). Furthermore, if you will use speakers in your DP to audio output, the ground loop might happen between audio connection and your computer (/sound card connected to computer) regardless of MIDI. Someone mentioned ground loops, but I think properly designed USB MIDI circuitry in the DP _should_ be relatively isolated from piano electrical ground, so I would not worry about ground loops before they present themselves.
#USB TO 5 PIN DIN MIDI CONVERTER SOFTWARE#
Piano -> midi data -> computer -> audio data -> soundcard -> speakersīecause computer is generating audio, connecting piano directly to (external) sound card is not any better than connecting it to a computer directly - the software on PC will receive and process note data regardless of the method, and converting USB MIDI to standard MIDI and then receiving data from there is not any better. Some software (like Pianoteq) can generate audio from that data, which you then can output from a sound card, connected to speakers or headphones. In case of digital piano and computer, notes played on the keyboard are transmitted over MIDI to computer. MIDI is meant for note and control data to pass between two devices. I think I can clarify this for you, having made a DIY MIDI adapter recently and knowing about all (little) there is to know about MIDI interface: http:/ / / 2016/ 01/ 17/ midi-to-usb-adapter-with-teensy-lc If I use this audio input, what's better for me to connect a computer directly to DP or should I use an audio interface between computer and DP? Also, the DP comes with an audio input so that external audio devices can be connected, such as iPad etc. I don't have external speakers and I think the DP have decent internal speakers. What I would prefer though is my DP to play sounds from Pianoteq. I wouldn't have any problem to connect DP directly to computer if I used headphones I could simply listen everything everything from computer. I feel like I really need much better understanding of all this :\ perhaps there's a better configuration that I have imagined.
I am totally confused and clueless now :\ I have read that old MIDI connectors available in audio interfaces are only to support old devices. Analog audio drives the loudspeakers (or headphones).
Focusrite interface produces analog audio digital audio goes out over the USB cable to the FocusRite interface Pianoteq "reads" the MIDI data, and produces digital audio MIDI data goes over the USB cable to the PC Follow the same steps, but connect the FocurRite audio outputs to the "Line In" jack on the DP. If the DP _does_ have a "Line In" or "Audio In" :
Turn off "Local Control" on the DP - it should be a menu option. drive external "powered" or "active" loudspeakers. Use headphones on the Focusrite, or use its "Line Out" jacks to and take its MIDI input from the DP (these are set inside Pianoteq) Arrange Pianoteq to play its audio through the FocusRite interface, MIDI signals are coming in from the DP, on that USB cable. and do whatever is needed to get the computer to recognize that As MacMacMac says, connect the DP's USB port to the computer, If it _doesn't_ have "Line In" or "Audio In" jack, you _will not_ be able to play Pianoteq through its loudspeakers. Does it have a "Line In" or "Audio In" jack ?