u/Labyrinth35

Yamaha P225 - am trying to get Ipad with a MIDI program to work. Still getting piano sounds mixed with MIDI

Yamaha P225 - am trying to get Ipad with a MIDI program to work. Still getting piano or other P225 sounds mixed with MIDI. Instead of Midi only.

I have been using Flowkey program with h no issues so Midi does work in my limited opinion at least in recognizing key presses and having the audio from the ipad (via flowkey) coming into the Yamaha and into the headphones plugged into piano. .

I did turn local control off and I still hear the piano sounds from the P225 with headphones plugged into the P225. If I turn it back on, it cuts off the Midi from lets Garage Band or Numa on the ipad and plays normally.

I turned the volume all the way down on the Yamaha as someone suggested on a post and hear nothing with or without headphones plugged in. I unplugged the headphones plugged into the Yamaha.

Perhaps this implementation of Midi on the P225 is not fully baked in.

On setting for Numa (after trying GarageBand with same result) I did select setting and Midi and selected P series.

There is no way for me to connect headphones to the ipad since the lightning port is used up and there is no headphone jack there.

The cable I am using is a MIDI/ printer type cable which is a USB B plugged into the keyboard and obviously the USB A into the ipad external camera adapter (as it is supposed to) . And power connected to this adapter too for the ipad .

I do know that the P225 does also have a 5 pin midi output cable but then I would have to get a converter to connect to Ipad. Now I of course have a PC (Windows) and could mess with this more, but rather just see what you experts say.

And if this keyboard does not allow proper use of midi with sound coming out of the headphones or speaks in the P225-that is ok. I am a beginner and taking lessons. So this is just me taking a break and playing around

Thank you so much

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u/Labyrinth35 — 3 days ago

I guess it’s having problems running on Alexa plus now. Works on the old original Alexa.

such a shame. The author is such a nice guy to allow people to use it and then Amazon has to do something that prevents it from running. So I run it on my old Alexa. I’ve tried setting up a routine to run it using a name like play my music and it does work on plus.

Like others, if I just say open iBroadcast on the plus, it will say it’s not reachable or not defined or something

I assume others are having this problem. Just set up a routine that references iBroadcast, but I’m sure you all know that

Thank you and thank you so much for the author who has answered my questions in the past and a saint in my mind.

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u/Labyrinth35 — 5 days ago