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<blockquote data-quote="nocturne153" data-source="post: 695509" data-attributes="member: 60908">What finally worked:&nbsp; Take the Midi plug with &quot;Out&quot; embossed in the plastic.&nbsp; Plug it into the Midi socket labeled &quot;In&quot; on your digital instrument.&nbsp; The &quot;In&quot; plug goes into the &quot;Out&quot; socket.&nbsp; Don't ask me why:&nbsp; just do it. I did this, then messed around a bit in Applications/ Utilities/ Audio and Midi Setup.app.&nbsp; There is a tantalizing &quot;Test&quot; icon here.&nbsp; I tried it.&nbsp; I was disturbed to hear only a fast &quot;bip-bip-bip&quot; repeating endlessly as though my keyboard was on a timer and about to explode in my techno-dolt face.&nbsp; It did not explode.&nbsp; I pressed notes on the keyboard - nothing.&nbsp; Frustrating!&nbsp; But...&nbsp; I went back to GarageBand and for the first time, I could hear a faint keyboard sound when I played my digital piano.&nbsp; It was very faint, so I cranked every one of the thousand or so various volume controls and now have a functioning set up I can hear properly.&nbsp;&nbsp; I sincerely hope this saves someone else some of the frustration I experienced.&nbsp; I'm going to post this answer in some of the other places I looked, too.(Another tip:&nbsp; when you're testing this, don't bother playing back a track you've saved inside the digital piano - the Mac still doesn't &quot;hear&quot; those for some reason (don't know why yet), but it will hear fresh notes you press on the keyboard.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nocturne153, post: 695509, member: 60908"] What finally worked: Take the Midi plug with "Out" embossed in the plastic. Plug it into the Midi socket labeled "In" on your digital instrument. The "In" plug goes into the "Out" socket. Don't ask me why: just do it. I did this, then messed around a bit in Applications/ Utilities/ Audio and Midi Setup.app. There is a tantalizing "Test" icon here. I tried it. I was disturbed to hear only a fast "bip-bip-bip" repeating endlessly as though my keyboard was on a timer and about to explode in my techno-dolt face. It did not explode. I pressed notes on the keyboard - nothing. Frustrating! But... I went back to GarageBand and for the first time, I could hear a faint keyboard sound when I played my digital piano. It was very faint, so I cranked every one of the thousand or so various volume controls and now have a functioning set up I can hear properly. I sincerely hope this saves someone else some of the frustration I experienced. I'm going to post this answer in some of the other places I looked, too. (Another tip: when you're testing this, don't bother playing back a track you've saved inside the digital piano - the Mac still doesn't "hear" those for some reason (don't know why yet), but it will hear fresh notes you press on the keyboard.) [/QUOTE]

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