WIDI Master

Great product from a Great company. The first order was delivered to the wrong address, and they promptly sent a new one. The WIDI adapter has a good, solid wireless MIDI connection and very low latency. I've used Yamaha, Quicco Sound, and WIDI beats them both.

Very happy with this bit of kit. Have it hooked up to a fairly old Yamaha electric Piano (YDP 140). I was concerned when ordering that it may not work, but it works perfectly. I use it to link my Piano to my Ipad, where I can play through GarageBand and various other apps, with not noticable latency at all. Make sure you read the instructions, this does need a seperate free app downloading to work, and does not work with the default Bluetooth connectivity in the iPad. But once the App is running it works seamlessly with all apps tried so far. Bit pricey, but well worth it!

Used on an Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 as the built in wireless is unreliable. 2 x widi masters required for tx and rx. Expensive but brilliant range and reliability. The cons. Forget updating it using Android easily. Two devices failed to even see them. The third newer device simply would not connect consistently coming up with a message to clear the Bluetooth cache and try again. The fix is to hold the button whilst inserting into the midi out port until the unit flashed green, then red. At that point the device is detected by the app as being in update mode. You can manually select the widi master device and update the firmware. It still won't detect in the app in normal operating mode but the update completes, the units pair and then you're away with reliable, very low latency widi. Highly recommended if you can get past the hard work that I had to figure out for myself. I hope this helps some folk. Rob.

Wireless Bluetooth on a digital kit surrounded by wires may seem like a funny option, but one of my soundcards doesn't have MIDI. Anyway this took a little while to sort out because my Macbook is on High Sierra and for some reason it wouldn't find it in the Audio MIDI Setup tool. I sucessfully paired this with my other machine running Catalina so I knew it wasn't a failed unit. I then downloaded the app from the Apple Store and connected to the device. I upgraded the firmware on it to the newer firmware, which still didn't work, so I reflashed it with the older one. For some reason this worked and I was then able to connect using the Apple Audio MIDI Setup tool. You have to go to the Bluetooth section in order to see it and connect. Once connected it was so, so simple to hook into Ableton and I was up and running in no time. One thing is that if you don't use it, it will go to sleep and you have to re-connect in the MIDI Setup tool, so just add this to the finder bar and you'll have easier access next time. Latency is really good! I couldn't really feel anything too untoward, and it's really opened up this drum kit to more options using Komplete, Battery, Contact and of course Ableton's Drum Rack/Sample triggering... Make sure you download the manual and watch a few of their tutorial videos on YouTube. They're really simple but get you up and running...

I plugged this into my 1989 Clavinova CLP 570 (yes, that’s a 32 year old Yamaha) and had it connected to an app on an iPad in seconds. It works flawlessly and with no configuration (although I used the app to reduce the transmission power as the iPad is only a foot away from the device). Suddenly I have a ton of MIDI enabled apps to choose from to help me finally learn to sight-read and play properly. Seriously impressed with the stability and ease of use.

I bought 2 of these to connect my keytar to my master keyboard. Setup couldn't be easier, I just took both of them out the packaging, plugged them in, and they automatically paired up and started sending/receiving MIDI data. They run off the tiny amount of power supplied by a MIDI port so no additional wiring is needed. The range and reliability of the transmitted data is excellent - I've tried using them in a fairly large hall with about 30m between them, and it picked up every note (and, more importantly, every note-off) that I played. Highly recommended!

Bought it to connect my Yamaha P70 to my 2022 iPad Air. The P70 Piano predates the iPad's creation, the P70 came out in 2007 yet it still works. I am able to send and receive signal to and from the P70 to the iPad. One niggle is that it came with no instructions, the only hint of what to do is the triangle on the unit, that is meant to suggest the larger one goes into the OUT from MIDI. There is no instructions on how to connect, it self powers on when the P70 is switched on. To find the WIDI, I used an app call MIDIMTTR as a bridge between the Moog Synth app to the P70, took a bit of trial and error but got it working. Latency is not noticeable and it's even polyphonic.

I got a shiny new Bluetooth 5 USB dongle set up Ok in Win10, the WIDI master would pair with it immediately - yet no MIDI device became available despite jumping through a few hoops as per the CME website. Sorry, but at this price/performance I cut my losses and returned it for a refund, and used a "no OS or driver required" MIDI cable instead - which of course worked perfectly the first time.

These Widi links are a marvel, allowing me to connect a stone-age but wonderful Yamaha keyboard to the latest and greatest computer equipment. I did however have an issue installing them - my iPad would not recognise them. There was excellent and immediate support from the manufacturer and from the Facebook user group so I was able to identify the problem quickly - good support is rare these days so I think the manufacturer should be praised for doing good support. The issue turned out to be a) firmware needed to be updated and b) all other bluetooth profiles must be deleted before installation ( in my case it was an Apple Pencil causing the problem). So you must delete all existing bluetooth connections, then install and run a firmware update on the WIDI, and then re-install the other bluetooth profiles on top. Everything now works and is of high quality. Recommended.

Hem hızlı bağlantı kurdum hem de gecikme yok denecek kadar az. Ipad pro 11 2021 sadece tek usb c portu var. Hub almaktansa kulaklık adaptörü aldım. Midi klavyemi de midi master ile bluetooth ile ipad e bağladım. Hiç zorlanmadım hemen çalıştı. Cubasis uygulaması hemen algıladı. Yani ihtiyacımı kablosuz giderdim.

Funktioniert sehr gut. Einzig die Einrichtung am Computer kann ein wenig aufwendiger sein. Das liegt aber nicht am Gerät. Wer von MIDI Pins auf Bluetooth gehen will ist mit dem WIDI Master bestens aufgehoben.

Does the job well...but it slower that cable.

My second, all good