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I've got an older keyboard that i'd like to hook up to my dual 2 g5 to play with garageband. The keyboard has midi out and what looks to be a 1/4" phono jack. Can i simply get a 1/4" to 1/8" adapter and directly connect to the mac, and all will be well with the world?
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Originally posted by Sebastian:
I've got an older keyboard that i'd like to hook up to my dual 2 g5 to play with garageband. The keyboard has midi out and what looks to be a 1/4" phono jack. Can i simply get a 1/4" to 1/8" adapter and directly connect to the mac, and all will be well with the world?
Yes.
However, you will be limited to the keyboard's internal sounds.
If you want to play the virtual instruments that come with GarageBand, you need to hook the 'board up as a MIDI master keyboard. A simple USB MIDI interface such as the m-Audio midisport Uno (definitely "uno", not sure if the little one's a "midisport" as well, but should be easy to find) will do for about $30 or so.
-s*
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Thanks, will give it a sh ot. My father in law is a pipe organ builder/repairman (thought it interesting to mention given your nic, and i'm originally from st paul - small world 8-) )
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Join Date: May 2002
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Originally posted by Sebastian:
I've got an older keyboard that i'd like to hook up to my dual 2 g5 to play with garageband. The keyboard has midi out and what looks to be a 1/4" phono jack. Can i simply get a 1/4" to 1/8" adapter and directly connect to the mac, and all will be well with the world?
this size could mean a headphone plug in - be careful with rising the volume on your keyboard! it could blow away the sound-in of your computer.
you will probably recognise a very distorted sound...- i would prefer the mentioned midi thing, the sounds in garage band/jam pack are terrific...- for a consumer like me... 
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
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Originally posted by Sebastian:
My father in law is a pipe organ builder/repairman (thought it interesting to mention given your nic, and i'm originally from st paul - small world 8-) )
I confess to never having played a pipe organ - I do the Hammond thing.
(And that's St. Pauli, the red-light district in Hamburg, as opposed to Minnesota... )
-s*
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