If you're still trying to hook up those keyboards via midi, for sounds and such, something like m-audio's midisport 8x8 or 4x4 (depends on how many ins and outs you need) should do you well. If you're looking just for a midi controller (a keyboard that you can play and use to controll sonar and soft synths with assignable knobs, sliders and buttons), m-audio has options like the oxygen line and the axiums, roland has some, novation and quite a few others. I myself need to make room in my studio, so I'm selling my oxygen 61 if you're interested. But to use the keyboard's sounds you'll need a way to hook them up to the comp, and that might require a midi interface, unless they like the psr s900 have USB that you can use for that purpose. HTH, D!J!X! -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Malone Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 10:49 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Issues suddenly with my midi Hi all, Well I found the problem. Looks like my Motu midi express decided to take a perminent vacation. So I had to hook up a smaller micro midi device up. So because they are not making these devices anymore, it looks like I will be making a change in the future. Chriss, can you explain about more on your control surface? Does this mean that all you are using is a soft symth, and just one controler? If I have to reconfigure my system, I would much rather do it now then later. Bryan, if you want to suggest some thoughts on this, and let me know what types of packages that Dancing Dots has, I would love to hear from you. I'm in the middle of a project that I must finish. Keep in mind, I don't want to upgrade my whole system, I just want to find a better way to use the boards that I have without going throu changes trying to configure my system every time a midi device is going out. The boards I have are, S 90 Yamaha, Motif classic, Kurzweil PC2x and Korg N1. Best: James -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dominique Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 3:42 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Issues suddenly with my midi Hi, I find that also. I get to use the FireFace here at TSB in Texas, and if you do not turn the Fireface on before Sonar, you'll get a hole bunch of nasty dialogs before Sonar finishes loading. Really bad if I say so my self. On 6/16/12, Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I only suggest that because whenever I forget to turn my control > surface on before launching Sonar, Sonar forgets that it exists and i > have to reconfigure things. I don't do much work with MIDI, so > hopefully someone else can chime in with better suggestions. > > > > > At 08:25 PM 6/16/2012, you wrote: >>They could have. However, I doubt it. I'm thinking that when I had a >>friend over, he brought his Mac over. He disconnected one of my boards >>and connected it up to his mac. It was when i reconnected the >>keyboards back to my system is when the system went weard. I think >>that I will need to do a reset on my boards so that it can return them >>to the original state. >>-----Original Message----- >>From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Smart >>Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 12:42 PM >>To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Issues suddenly with my midi >> >>Hmm, strange. 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