Questions & Answers for Line 6 Mobile Keys 25 Keyboard Controller

It's a midi controller, so it doesn't produce any sound on its own- but let's say you plug it into an iPad, using Garageband, and want to add a track. Add a track for it and you can select what sound (guitar, drums, strings, piano, synths, etc) you want the output to have. The sound will come from the device it's plugged into.

• Answered by Janna P from Clackamas
• 03-Feb-2013
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No, but it will be able to use the 30-pin to Lightning adapters you mentioned. The keyboard comes with a cable that plugs into the 30-pin connection, but the Lightning to 30-pin adapter works great with the newer devices. It wouldn't connect via the USB cable, since the keyboard also has a cable with a male USB connection, made to plug into devices (like a Mac, for instance) that have a female USB port. The keyboard itself doesn't have a female USB port where the Lightning to USB cable would plug in.

• Answered by Janna P from Clackamas
• 03-Feb-2013
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This is a midi controller, which means you can input what you're playing from the keyboard to the iPad. In Garageband, add a track for the keyboard and you can select what instrument you'd like to use for the output sound. The sound will be played from the iPad, using Garageband.

• Answered by Janna P from Clackamas
• 03-Feb-2013
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If the notation program supports Core MIDI, which many do, then yes. The keyboard works with any program that uses Core MIDI for MIDI input.

• Answered by Gordon C G from Canoga Park
• 22-Nov-2012
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This will certainly work for a beginning piano student, though Mobile Keys 49 might be better as it has more keys, making two-handed playing easier. Velocity sensitivity is different from the key weight, it makes more expressive playing possible so it will sound more like a real acoustic piano.

• Answered by Gordon C G from Canoga Park
• 05-Dec-2012
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You can use earphones, but only by plugging them into a compatible iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch connected to the keyboard. This is a MIDI controller keyboard, not a standalone instrument, so the sound comes from the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, not from the keyboard itself.

• Answered by Gordon C G from Canoga Park
• 05-Dec-2012
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