Play Logic Pro MIDI output through CTX-5000's speakers

[Bradley]

Hi Folks,

We replaced our Yamaha PSR-E463 with the CTX-5000 and really appreciate these speakers!  The CTX-5000 User Manual refers to being able to "send MIDI data from your computer to the Digital Keyboard for playback (EN-124)".  I cannot figure how to do that after spending quite some time researching.  Now, this may be a Logic Pro issue, but I thought I would ask here.  When the Yamaha is connected, I can choose it as the output device (Logic Pro -> Preferences -> Audio -> Output Device) but the CTX-5000 is connected this is not an option.

 

We can send play data from the CTX-5000 to Logic Pro without issue via our USB cable.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and thank you!

 

Bradley 

[Mike Martin]

The CTX-5000 is not an audio interface. It isn't possible so send Audio over USB to this instrument. 

[darrencorrea]

Hi Mike, 

What about via an Aux cable ? Would that work

[Brad Saucier]

Audio, use an analog audio cable.  MIDI, use USB.  

[dftx3]

On 1/13/2022 at 9:04 PM, Bradley said:

"send MIDI data from your computer to the Digital Keyboard for playback (EN-124)"

Send midi data from music software running on your computer (Logic Pro on your case):

This means that in Logic Pro you have a midi track (or more) that has the output to the casio midi playback port, not audio.

You also need to load the Casio Instrument patch file in Logic PRO patchfiles directory, to choosing wich patch casio sounds for that track channel.

 

Here some DAW's patch scripts,

https://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=008&pid=2306 ,

but not for Logic Pro

The bad news is that with Logic, I'm afraid you're going to have to do some manual setup to get your patch names in. There is no automatic support.

 

Then when you want to use your MIDI instrument, you would create an External MIDI track, select the Multi-Instrument you created, and you'll be able to select from among your patch names.

 

Then, on casio mixer midi in section,  you can set volume, pan, reverb, chorus, delay for each track.

Edited January 29, 2022 by dftx3

[Bradley]

Greetings,

 

Well, we got this to work.  But, I'm not sure what I did that enabled MIDI back to the CTX-5000.  In the hopes of helping someone else...

1. Opened-up MIDI setup on the MacBook - nothing to do with LogicPro at this point.
2. From the MIDI setup there's a utility called MIDI Studio (I think that's the name, my wife's MacBook isn't near me now to check)
3. I deleted the icons for our old Yamaha and a Roland that the machine remembered from a visit to a music school
4. There's a Test function in MIDI Studio and when I tried that a sound played back through the CTX-5000's speakers!
5. Closed everything down...but still no luck.
6. Then we restarted LogicPro in the simple mode (before we had been using advanced mode with many more options.
7. This worked.  The problem is that I'm not at all certain what I did that "worked".  I was in a LogicPro clicking frenzy as after I heard sound back from the Test function, I was sure it was possible.

I should have updated my post, I'm sorry, to have given a result.  I wish I had done this more scientifically so that I knew what I did that enabled sound back.  The speakers on this keyboard are wonderful and my wife really likes the Casio vs the Yamaha.  Only thing is the Yamaha is much lighter and can run off batteries, but that's not such a biggie.

 

Take care!

 

Bradley