Question: affordable keyboard solution for iPhone XS

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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here has a suggestion for a simple affordable solution to get a (musical) keyboard attached to my iPhone XS.

I’m away from all my gear, and while out it would be awesome to play around with Cubasis 3 on my iPhone. I don’t have my camera connection kit with me either unfortunately, so I’m thinking it’ll have to be either bluetooth (but laggy?) or lighting compatible. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

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Hi Pitchy,

Thank you for your message.

In regards to Bluetooth for MIDI LE, the available Yamaha MD-BT01 adapter works great to have available keyboards equipped with bluetooth capacities.

It might also be worth to have a look at the CME Xkey BT series, which makes a compact mobile setup.

On my opinion, BT for MIDI is a great option and does not have too much latency.

Hope that helps!

Best,
Lars

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Hi Lars, thanks for that, I’ll investigate!

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Hi Pitchy,

Hope you‘ll find what you’re looking for!

Stay well,
Lars

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Hi Lars,

The Yamaha MD-BT01 actually works very well but not with Cubasis 2, sorry!

It is impossible to make a correct MIDI data recording with Cubasis 2 because the clock is completely desynchronized or else you have to replace all of them, which is long and tedious!

I did several tests before confirming this, including MIDI recording under the same conditions with GarageBand and I confirm that the issue is indeed Cubasis 2.

I dare not buy Cubasis 3 lest the problem be the same!

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Hi ArtFaks,

There should be no issues to use Yamaha’s MD-BT01 with Cubasis 2:

Please have a look at our tutorial, which demonstrates the steps how to connect the adapter with Cubasis:

Best,
Lars