# Midi controller and FMOD **URL:** \ **Category:** FMOD Studio\ **Created:** [January 20, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318 "2019-01-20T20:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jenkamusic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/jenkamusic/32/218_2.png) [@jenkamusic](https://qa.fmod.com/u/jenkamusic)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318/1 "2019-01-20T20:02:00Z")
Hi, Im thinking about using FMOD for a live show, where I need to use the parameters and music system of FMOD. Is there any way to connect a standard midi controller/keyboard to FMOD? Would be wonderful … also just for quickly testing parameter changes for a game system. ---
**Author:** ![richard\_simms](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/richard_simms/32/261_2.png) [@richard\_simms](https://qa.fmod.com/u/richard_simms)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 11:54am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318/2 "2019-01-21T11:54:48Z")
Hi Niels, There isn’t a native way of connecting a MIDI keyboard with FMOD Studio. It is possible to use a control surface such as a Mackie Control to control faders and parameters, etc. You would need to fetch the inputs from the MIDI device and program how FMOD should use those inputs in your live action setup. There’s some third party libraries available for working with MIDI that you can use. Thanks, Richard ---
**Author:** ![jenkamusic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/jenkamusic/32/218_2.png) [@jenkamusic](https://qa.fmod.com/u/jenkamusic)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318/3 "2019-01-21T12:25:13Z")
> [@richard\_simms](#): > > Mackie Control Hi Richard, Thanks a lot for the answer. I was hoping there was an easier way, but I will definitely look into the third party libraries. Thanks, Niels ---
**Author:** ![BeatTherapy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@BeatTherapy](https://qa.fmod.com/u/BeatTherapy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318/4 "2019-03-18T11:12:39Z")
Did you have any luck? I’m in a similar situation… live gig coming up soon and it would be great to get creative with fmod and a midi controller. I don’t know many musicians who have the coding chops to make sense of the advice given here regarding libraries etc. A midi learn feature couldn’t be that hard to implement could it? (please Brett! =) ) ---
**Author:** ![jenkamusic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/jenkamusic/32/218_2.png) [@jenkamusic](https://qa.fmod.com/u/jenkamusic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318/5 "2019-03-25T12:06:27Z")
Hi, Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to look into the external libraries, so I gave up and used something else instead. Would be super nice if it was possible to integrate more midi devices though. Also a nice way of testing parameter settings and such. ---
**Author:** ![Paalo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/paalo/32/616_2.png) [@Paalo](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Paalo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318/6 "2020-10-11T23:35:33Z")
@jenkamusic, writing this here too, but my friend @alexzzen did this cool tool a while back which allows you to use your MIDI Controllers with FMOD. Might be worth checking it out and see how it works for your setup? 🙂 > **[alessandrofama/FMOD-MIDI-Control](https://github.com/alessandrofama/FMOD-MIDI-Control)** > > Contribute to alessandrofama/FMOD-MIDI-Control development by creating an account on GitHub. ---
**Author:** ![neocoregames](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@neocoregames](https://qa.fmod.com/u/neocoregames)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318/7 "2021-10-19T11:19:01Z")
Fmod studio ipad controller would be awesome handy…! ---
**Author:** ![BubbleBoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@BubbleBoi](https://qa.fmod.com/u/BubbleBoi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318/8 "2022-07-27T13:59:08Z")
Thank you for sharing this it’s a much needed tool ---
**Author:** ![Koca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@Koca](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Koca)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318/9 "2022-07-28T09:41:52Z")
How do you implement this? Do I need a programmer or is it simply just paste somewhere? Thanx ---
**Author:** ![dfhagai](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/dfhagai/32/601_2.png) [@dfhagai](https://qa.fmod.com/u/dfhagai)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/midi-controller-and-fmod/14318/10 "2023-05-08T08:00:34Z")
That does looks very good! but there’s no app in the folder and no explanations to be found about how to use it…