Connecting With Audio Equipment - Casio LK-S250 User Manual

■ Connecting to a Computer
• Incorrect connections can make data exchange
impossible. Be sure to follow the steps of the
procedure below.
1.
Turn off the Digital Keyboard and then start up
your computer.
• Do not start up the music software on your computer
yet!
2.
Use a commercially available USB cable to
connect the Digital Keyboard to your
computer.
• Use a USB 2.0 or 1.1 A-MicroB connector type USB
cable that supports data communication.
3.
Turn on the Digital Keyboard.
• If this is the first time you are connecting, the driver
required to transfer data will automatically be installed
on your computer.
4.
Start up commercially available music software
on your computer.
5.
Use the settings of your computer's
commercially available music software to
select "CASIO USB-MIDI" as the MIDI device.
• For information about how to select the MIDI device,
refer to the user documentation that comes with the
music software you are using.
• Be sure to turn on the Digital Keyboard before starting
up your computer's music software.
• Data send/receive cannot be performed while a song is
playing (page EN-17).
• Once you are able to connect successfully, you can leave
the USB cable connected when you turn off your computer
and/or Digital Keyboard.
• For detailed specifications and connections that apply to
MIDI data communication by this Digital Keyboard, see the
latest support information provided on the website at the
URL or QR code below.
https://support.casio.com/global/en/emi/manual/LK-S250/
■ Configuring MIDI Settings
For information about the MIDI settings below, refer to the
"Setting Item List" (page EN-38).
• MIDI Out Channel
• MIDI Out Octave Shift
• MIDI Out Velocity
• MIDI IN Navigate
• MIDI IN Navigate Right-hand Channel
• MIDI IN Navigate Left-hand Channel
• Local Control
Connecting with Audio
Equipment
You can connect the Digital Keyboard to a commercially
available stereo system or amplifier, or to a recording device.
You can also use the Digital Keyboard to sound output from a
portable audio player or another device, and use that as
backing for your keyboard play.
■ Sounding Digital Keyboard Output on an
External Device
Connection requires commercially available connecting cords,
supplied by you.
• The connecting cord should have a stereo mini plug on one
end and a plug that matches the configuration of the input
jack of the external device on the other end.
• Turn off the external device and the Digital Keyboard
before connecting them. Before turning power on or
off, turn down the volume level of the Digital Keyboard
and external devices.
• After connecting, turn on the Digital Keyboard first and
then the external device.
• If Digital Keyboard notes are distorted when they are
sounded on an external audio device, lower the Digital
Keyboard's volume level.
Digital Keyboard PHONES/OUTPUT jack (3.5mm stereo mini jack)
Stereo mini plug
EN-36
Connecting with External Devices
Audio equipment, amplifier,
etc.