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Thank you - T - 😃 Your info has been extremely helpful, and very informative. I’ve looked at BandLab and just starting to look at Cakewalk. The standard BandLab seems to be a very simple to use program, and very similar to GarageBand. I’m very impressed that it actually seems to do what I needed. You really did understand what I was after 😃 I had looked at several others, but after downloading and testing they never had anywhere near the same functionality that I wanted. I’m not locked to the iPad and using Windows is fine, and Windows 10 and BandLab picked up the midi input from my Casio CDP-220r immediately. Plus it’s a lot easier to put mp3 songs into a mix on my laptop, and I have them all installed there already. Whereas I struggled with space on the iPad and normally only had a small number of music files to use. And I recall having to convert the music format to an apple acceptable type. It was actually at the beginning of the year that I noticed the issue with GarageBand. The latest update happened in December 2018, and I had a detailed instruction that I used to set it up. One of the screen options that I have previously used was removed. I tried the remaining similar ones, but none of them worked the same I went back and looked at all the options I could fine in Garageband, and couldn’t see anything that was stopping the midi inputs from working. actually instead of getting the error message, I was now getting nothing. Didn’t seem to get any recognition that it was connected, other than a chime that acknowledge that something had been connected. So I have put GarageBand in mothballs, and will embrace fine tuning BandLab. Cakewalk looks like a lot more complex, but I’ll certainly give it a try also. Again thank you very much for your detailed response, and your obviously extensive knowledge in this field. 😎

Looking for some help or suggestions. I have a CDP-220R which has been a great keyboard for me. I was connecting it to my iPad Air via the USB midi output with a lightening connection into the iPad. I was running the Apple "Garageband" app, which was a very user friendly and fully optioned app. However the last two automatic updates to Garageband have stopped the CDP-220R from being able to communicate. It now says that the midi device is Not compatible. Apple have advised that the software can't be reversed to the older version and unfortunately that's it. What I was doing was uploading an original song (MP3) (Bat out of Hell) and then playing and recording my keyboard as a 2nd overlay. I could listen to the song as I played the keyboard and match the same timing. I could add extra overlays of voice, or keyboard, or anything else, and then remove the original song if I wanted to. It allowed me to record with whatever parts I wanted and then I could upload to Utube or save the file. Has anyone has had success in getting their keyboard to work with the current "Garageband" software. Or if not (Which is most likely the case) has anyone got an alternative software can do the same tasks as I was getting Garageband to do. I normally use a Laptop running windows 10. Does anyone know of a software program that would do what I was doing in Garageband.