Pro Tools LE and USB Midi?

[Soundburst]

Hey guys , I bought an MBox 2 mini which has no Midi port.

My electric piano does have midi ports though, so my question is, can i use a Midi to USB cable to connect my Piano to Pro Tools and have it show as a standard Midi device?

Or does it strictly have to be Midi to Midi to be noticed as a midi device. Thanks in advance.

[scottlinux]

Hey yeah Pro Tools will recognize any system midi device. Doesn't have to go through Pro Tools hardware.

Anything like the Yamaha UX16 midi-usb adapter will work.

[Soundburst]

Hey sorry to hassle but i noticed on alot of the images for cables...that the midi has to be connected to some kind of Audio Interface.

http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/legend000d/usbminicable1.jpg

This image for example. Can it work Without the interface?

[CanadaRAM]

the midi has to be connected to some kind of Audio Interface.

No, MIDI and Audio have nothing to do with each other.

However, you DO need a interface to translate between USB and MIDI -- you can't just use a simple cable. Beware of "MIDI" cables that are designed for PC soundcards and plug into the DB-15 Joystick port on the soundcard (the soundcard has the MIDI interface built in, the cable is just a breakout cable). These are specific to PCs and will not work on any Mac.

MIDI Keyboard <--> MIDI-USB Interface <--> Mac

Popular brands of interfaces are Edirol (http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=732&ParentId=114) and M-Audio (http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=usbmidiinterfaces)