Using MIDI devices with Simply Piano

Simply Piano is an awesome application. Over the last few months it’s taken me from “someone who can hardly play to the piano” to “someone who can hardly play the piano except for ‘The Entertainer’”.

Simply Piano can use the microphone in the iPad to listen to the notes that you play, but a MIDI connection to the program is much more reliable. It also means that you can practise while wearing headphones, something number one wife prefers.

Unfortunately recent “upgrades” to iPad OS have made it much harder to use this. It seems that iPad is now having problems recognising USB MIDI connections from some devices. If you, like me, are having problems the best recommendation I can make is to get hold of a MIDI adapter that uses the big round DIN connectors to link to your keyboard. I made the change and it now works for me.