First of all, thank you and kudos to the Auria team for making this unbelievable... thing. I started my recording career (OK, I fooled around with GarageBand like a week before..) with Auria not much more than 1 month ago, and boy am I enjoying it. I mean, I've been in recording bands half of my life, but I was never actively involved in the mixing of stuff, apart from drinking beer on various studio couches yelling "moar guitars, moar everything in the red!"
But. I will leave "my story" a bit short for now, and get to the POINT.
And I know the "point" is not really even an "Auria issue", I am just beyond googling and trying everything myself... after fighting maybe 10 hours total, in order to get the bloody UA-22 accept and like my Swissonic EasyKey 49 cheapo MIDI-keyboard. FWIW I am a total, absolute, complete, MIDI noob. I am a guitarist of 30+ years, and I only got my first keyboard ever (!!) because I want to p r o p e r l y learn how to play the b&w keys (eventually), and I'm fully aware how much fun I can have while getting there.
So finally, here goes:
1) Plug the keys to the Roland UA-22 with the MIDI cable delivered with said keys, hoping to get any sound out. This is the start, and pretty much the end, of my dilemma. Because as you can guess, I get nothing. No sound, no signal. Trust me, I read all manuals pretty thoroughly and for 4-5 days now I have only managed to get semi-happy by doing what a friend (who has nothing to do with music, that's why I asked her!) suggested, namely
2) "how about try to plug the iPad (Pro 9.7") directly to the keyboard?" Well well, that saved more than 1 day for me, because that made me aware the keyboard actually WORKS. So, yeah, Auria reads loud and clear. I fooled around for an hour or two, and I am pretty sure I get to do anything I will ever want with it - recording-wise, I mean. But. For there is always a 'but', right?
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3) How on earth am I going to be able to PLAY them keys, I mean, without having to use iPad speakers or of course through any of my headphones? I mean, I want piano'ish sounds eventually to come out from my monitors. And as the status now stands, I am "halfway happy", meaning I spent some time this morning trying to figure how (or if) Auria could help me somehow to forward the wonderful sounds I am hearing, again (this makes no sense to myself, so I don't blame you if you don't understand me at all...), through the USB and via the Swissonic > MIDI cable > into the UA-22 > pouring out of my monitors? The very MIDI cable that should go from the OUTput of the keyboard into the INput of the Roland, right?
I know the above part will make any keyboardist or MIDI expert laugh out loud. Believe me, I am laughing too, because this is of course a first world problem if any. I mean, I can RECORD them keys, why am I insisting on hearing my terrible practising from the speakers, instead of being married to a headset all the time?
Let's just say I don't like it when things don't go my way. Only child and all that jazz.
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And: I am really just wondering if there is anyone here with experience with the Roland UA-22, who has a snappy 10-words-or-less-solution for me. For as it stands now, I am looking angrily at that otherwise fine piece of electronics... as it clearly hates either me or the Swissonic. Oh, that OR the classic: have you tried with another MIDI cable? No, I have not, since I only own that 1 cable - bought it new, I be damned if it's the first piece of cord I ever bought in my life that was delivered faulty. Please don't tell me "it's the cable", pretty please.
TL;DR
Thank you for reading. Thank you for Auria. Thanks to absolutely anyone who can interrogate me the right way in order to solve this wee dilemma of mine. I don't know if Roland has an active message board anywhere, frankly, I am not too impressed with the information I find regarding that unit. The manual is rather thin, as well.
PS: If you read all of the above, and your head hurts, here, let me buy you a pint!