Apple Logic Pro X - Manual (Page 121)

Chapter 5 Connect external devices 121
Connect MIDI keyboards and modules
You can connect a MIDI keyboard to your computer to play and record software instruments, or
record MIDI regions to use with external MIDI devices such as synthesizers or sound modules.
Connect a MIDI keyboard
Do one of the following:
m Connect the MIDI Out port to a MIDI In port on a MIDI interface, and connect the MIDI In port
on the keyboard to a MIDI Out port on the MIDI interface using MIDI cables. Connect the MIDI
interface to your computer.
MIDI Connector
m For keyboard controllers without tone generators: You only need to connect the MIDI Out port of
the keyboard to a MIDI In port on your MIDI interface, using a MIDI cable.
In port
Keyboard
Out port
MIDI interface
Computer
m For keyboards with tone generators: You should also connect the MIDI Out port of the MIDI
interface to the keyboard MIDI In port. If your MIDI interface offers more than one MIDI output,
connect any other tone generators (or other MIDI devices, such as control surfaces that require
bidirectional MIDI communication) to these.
Keyboard
In port
In port Out port
Tone generator In port Out port
MIDI interface
Computer