Hello yall!
I’m a music teacher and trying my best to get my Casio to sync up with the onscreen keyboard so I can teach piano in my classroom. My goal is to have the notes I play on my keyboard light up on the onscreen keyboard. Having trouble getting this set up. Not very tech savvy and it looks like the tutorials and videos online are for cantabile 3.
Here’s a picture of my ports. Would appreciate any link to walkthroughs or any help at all with this.
Thank you!
Hi Octurnene and Welcome to the Forum! 
Your ports are fine but you need to go to the menu bar and go to View>Background Rack and create a route in the Background Rack like this below. It will mirror your Main keyboard to the Onscreen Keyboard and be available on all songs you might create.
Cheers,
Dave
Thank you Dave!!
So I think I did what you said. But I’m still not seeing anything show up on the keyboard at the bottom of the screen 
Anything I’m missing? Here’s what I see:
The online guide has been updated for Cantabile 4. The videos are mostly for Cantabile 3, but they are still good as the core is the same in both 3 and 4.
Anyway, Brad add new videos to the blog when there are new features.
Hey Octurnene,
Try setting the Main keyboard input port to only the Casio and the Onscreen Output port to just the Onscreen keyboard and try again. Also while you check it leave the background rack open watch for MIDI activity on the indicators on the right of the input route slot you made in the BG rack and make sure your Casio is sending. The small round indicators will light up green if recieving MIDI.
Dave
Ok Thank you cpaolo im looking into the videos to try to figure it out as well.
Dave-I have set the ports as you suggested:
the indicator light next to the route I set up is not showing green at all, but the light next to the inport ports is lighting up in response to the keyboard (i have it circled in blue in this picture). Still nothing showing up on the onscreen keyboard
Thanks for the pics. You have it configured correctly and should see activity all the circled indicators as well as the one you circled.
Very odd but I would try shutting down Cantabile and restarting it to see if the ports are still blocked. Sometimes in the Main Keyboard port configuration there can be disabled ports that still show up in the Ports list. Can you post a picture of the configuration window for the Main Keyboard where it is listed as CASIO USB-MIDI. (It has a list of checkboxes for the MIDI gear that is available)
Is this the one? Looks like it’s enabled. Going to troubleshoot when I get off work and experiment with a different keyboard as well as a different computer.
Looks good, let us know how it goes, sometimes just shutting down the PC and letting it cold boot will fix things. Windows USB MIDI can be a little loco sometimes.
no luck what is a comparable program for windows that has the function im looking for? any suggestions?
I appreciate you trying to help out Dave!
Hi, did you try with a different keyboard or PC? As far as other apps there are onscreen MIDI keyboards that can do what you want there’s this :
You need to set your Keyboard to it’s MIDI In in the MIDI Connections setup.
