braindead94

Just a quick response. You guys gave a lot of information and I don't have enough time to delve into everything tonight. That video was both entertaining and informative. MIDI-OX does show MIDI data when I play the keyboard. Under Device Manager, the keyboard shows up as USB2.0 when it's plugged in and disappears when it's unplugged. I will look into this more tomorrow. rsaintjohn, you said you have the same keyboard. If you get a chance... on the face of the keyboard, about 3 inches to the left of the word CASIO it says Data Access and there's a green LED. Does that light up on your keyboard under any circumstances? Thank you everyone for the help and have a good night.

Ok I am home after a long day of work. I am sorry rsantjohn, I didn't see your post before my last post before my post. I tried doing a system reset like you said. Unfortunately it didn't do the trick. I am becoming very suspicious of my adapter or interface or whatever else it may be called. I don't remember where I bought it but I've had it a couple years. It works fine with my Yamaha keyboard and it works with the Casio, just not with the Data Manager program. It's a Sanoxy USB MIDI cable converter PC to Music Keyboard. http://www.amazon.com/SANOXY%C2%AE-USB-MIDI-Converter-Keyboard/dp/B003KXEDVQ/

I did not know compatibility mode existed. It's pretty cool but it didn't help. I can't seem to find any setting within the keyboard that would be causing a problem. The one thing I have noticed is that the instructions definitely say "MIDI interface" I'm looking at Amazon and a MIDI cable is about 7 bucks but a MIDI interface is about 35. I'm pretty sure that what I'm using is a MIDI cable. Like I said previously I'm getting data to go both ways using another program. Can anyone enlighten me what the difference between MIDI interface and MIDI cable is. Does the older software need to have an interface? I don't want to spend 35 bucks for no reason. Thanks again

Thanks for the help, Scott. But that's the same software I already downloaded. I'm still getting ERROR - MIDI timeout. Under File>Preferences>Input MIDI device my only choice is USB2.0-MIDI. On the same page under Output MIDI device my choices are Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, USB2.0-MIDI or MIDIOUT2 (USB2.0-MIDI). No matter what choices I make, if I click the refresh icon on the keyboard side I get ERROR MIDI timeout even if I pick Microsoft GS Wavetable synth. There is a big left arrow and a right arrow in the middle of the window. I believe that if it's working correctly I should be able to click a file on the PC side and then click the arrow to send it across. The arrows are greyed out. I can select a file on the PC side but clicking the arrow doesn't do anything. Casio's instructions say that if get that error message, I don't have it connected properly. Yes, I have it wired from IN to OUT and from OUT to IN. And yes, I have tried switching it even though that's wrong. If I try it with the cable unplugged I get ERROR - Can't find MIDI device. I'm starting to wonder if I should try resetting it to factory settings. Once again, thanks for any help you can offer. Joel

Hello. After buying 3 Yamaha keyboards in a row I just bought a CTK-900. I'm pretty impressed with it but I can't manage to transfer anything to or from my computer. The manual says to run the program wk3-30.exe off the CD. I don't have the CD but the file is on Casio's site. All I get is ERROR - MIDI Timeout. This is an older keyboard. I think it's from 2008 or 2009. Although the Casio software doesn't see the keyboard I am certain I have it connected properly. I use a program called Reaper. Within Reaper I can set the output of a track to the keyboard and it will play through the keyboard. I can also record a track by playing the keyboard and the MIDI data gets into the computer. I looked a little deeper on Casio's site and it says the program doesn't support Windows 8.1. I have another computer that's running XP so I installed on it and I get the same message. I'm stuck. Can anyone help?