Depends on what you are trying to do. If you are using the external MIDI synth to fee an external amplifier to hear the sound, then you should be able to select it as your MIDI device (or at least the MIDI interface to which it is connected - for example, I have my external device connected to my XMIDI 2, which is what I select as my MIDI output device).

However, if you are then wanting to feed that output back into your computer (to record it, perhaps), then you will need to have a audio line-in capability, either incorporated into your laptop (but most of today's laptops lack line-in), or into an external audio interface that connect via USB, for example, to your laptop.

I have the MIDI of my Ketron SD-2 connected the XMIDI2 USB connection, so select it as my output. I then have the SD-2 audio connected to the audio-in on my FastTrack Pro audio device, which is connected via USB back to the computer.


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