# Connecting keyboard

**URL:** <https://forums.steinberg.net/t/connecting-keyboard/1040619>\
**Category:** Cubasis\
**Created:** [September 5, 2026, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/connecting-keyboard/1040619 "2026-09-05T00:46:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![bluequigley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@bluequigley](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/bluequigley)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/connecting-keyboard/1040619/1 "2026-09-05T00:46:33Z")

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So I’ve got a oxygen 61 midi keyboard. I’m trying to connect it to cubasis through an amp, scarlet solo, and a Lakota looper pedal. When I turn it on I get a heavy distortion sound and the gain 2 knob turns yellow, red, green. If I turn off inst. there’s no distortion and the knob stays green. Mind you I’m not getting any feedback from the keyboard at all. I passed my oboe test. And also if I do the exact same setup but with guitar it works fine. I got input and output devices on the scarlet. It works fine with keyboard to just tablet. I wanna include a looper.