Drivers

GarageBand won’t arrive until tommorow, but the USB Midi Controller (Keyboard) I bought on eBay arrived today. It’s an M-Audio (a.k.a Midiman) USB Keystation 61. The CD contained drivers and software for OS 9, but nothing for OS X. A search of the Midiman website was not much help either; the only drivers listed for a Keystation 61 were the OS 9 drivers.

Unsatisfied, I Googled a bit. Information was scare, but I pieced together enough to believe that M-Audio/Midiman has a unified OS X driver for several of their products. It turns out I was correct.

To obtain Mac OS X drivers for the following M-Audio or Midiman products:

  • Keystation 49 or Keystation 61
  • MIDISPORT 1×1, 2×2, 2×4, 4×4, and 8×8
  • Oxygen8
  • Quattro
  • Radium, Radium49, Radium61
  • Sonica (firmware loader only)
  • Uno

Go to the M-Audio Drivers page and search for drivers for the Radium 61. Grab the drivers labeled “M-Audio USB MIDI OS X“; at the time of this writing they were version 3.1. (OS 8/9 and Windows drivers also available). The list of supported devices above is taken from the README; I just made some of the product names more explicit to help the search engines.

To get everything working, I had to install the drivers, reboot, and the run the “Audio MIDI Setup” application in Applications/Utilities. The device then appeared, and I was able to test it from within Audion MIDI Setup (choose the test icon, press a key on keyboard, the Mac beeps) and within the Trial version of Intuem.

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Posted January 16th, 2004 at 7:05 am 3 Comments »

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3 Responses to “Drivers”

  1. Anonymous Says: June 11th, 2004 at 9:12 pm

    Marc Ziod

    Thank you kindly oh wise one. Tis good to see the leds on my midisport light up! Onward.
    Ta again.

  2. Luis Riancho Says: March 29th, 2007 at 2:11 am

    It’s now March 2007 and your hint still works.
    Thanks jclark!

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