[Ardour-Users] How to connect a MIDI keyboard to a synth plugin ?

[Brett McCoy]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:47 PM, jonetsu at teksavvy.com <jonetsu at teksavvy.com>
wrote:

> I am trying the Hive VST plugin.  I created a MIDI track and added Hive
> at the time of creation a sit was in the drop down list of
> instruments.  The on-screen Hive keyboard works and produces sounds.
> OTOH, the external MIDI keyboard cannot connect to the VST synth.  In
> 'tracks and busses' the MIDI track shows the external keyboard, the USB
> ProKeys 88 as input, so I selected it.  Ardour's MIDI activity window
> will show the key strikes from the keyboard all right.  But nothing
> gets to the plugin.  Is there something missing ?
>

There may be a mismatch between the channel the keyboard is sending on
versus the channel the plugin is configured for.

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Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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