I'm just saying since I don't think there's a lot of interest in live sound or raw tech here, and if I'm the only one here who has anything to say, then I would say "lots of luck!" There is a Yamaha rep somewhere who responds to letters to the editor from that old magazine "Keyboard Magazine," but I wouldn't know if they have a forum or whatever, and I'm not interested in promoting anything except my own ego. I'm really, as you can see, just guessing. It could be that just digital noise from the connection would defeat the active sense. Or, if the hardware allows it (i.e., your interface), just plug in two cables, one for each M-IN and M-OUT.
Granted, at most I've done and begrugingly still do simple things via the protocol, so, maybe, just "idle bystander."īut, why not just allow your software and the keyboard to do its active sensing, especially if it's not a question of live performance where latency would be a problem. Well, TBH, now I'm like a mental patient for this added feature to MIDI I'd never even heard of.
Or, maybe just doubling up, taking a second MIDI cable from the interface into the "in" on the Yamaha (or vice versa).
You could automate a signal returning to the Yamaha upon receiving note-on, and that would probably work, but it doesn't seem too ideal. But if even MIDIOx can't remap it, I'm not too sure I'd hold out too much hope. I have to think Yamaha must have included some way to defeat this little "feature." If it's your main keyboard, and you need to go into your computer, I know that there are people who make pretty inexpensive MIDI "inter-interface" boxes that can defeat this kind of thing for pretty cheap.
It's probably in the manual somewhere, if you can decipher it. That's an odd design, so, if that's what it is, shame on Yamaha. Why would the keyboard want a signal back from the DAW (or vice versa)? At best, you'd be duplexing the path, so any latency inherent in the MIDI standard would be multiplied. IIRC Roland/Edirol and Yamaha have some different ways of implementing things like polarity on expression pedals, so who knows.īut, it would be better to just strip out the active sensing, either through menu-diving on the board, or through using a "dumb" interface.
I've never heard of "active sensing," but assuming that's the way Yamaha designed the MIDI for the YPT-210, then, I'd guess an interface that supports that protocol (which seems like a bizarre, one-use way to have things set up, except as an added feature that could be disabled) might work.
Out of curiosity, what's your equipment on the other end? USB-C (could be a problem, not fully standardized yet is my understanding), or just USB-A into a Mac or PC or Linux box, I'm guessing is more likely. I forgot what it was called, but it was basically a bit of software dedicated only to hosting VSTis and effects. It's been twenty years, I guess, since I last used a DAW to interface with MIDI.Īt the time I was using IIRC just the cheapest Edirol USB-MIDI device, to go into Steinberg's. This is the first time I've ever even heard of such an odd problem.