MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that enables drastically different music technologies, developed decades apart, to tell each other what to do – whether your computer is controlling a vintage synthesiser, or you are controlling your computer with your vintage synthesiser.
MIDI is cool, but it can also be a bit of a dense subject – so, for those newly blessed with a MIDI keyboard or controller, how does it factor into your wider audio studio setup? A commonly asked question in this field relates to audio interfaces, and how you connect one to the other. So, let’s answer this question comprehensively: how do you connect a MIDI keyboard to your audio interface?
