Connecting Midi Keyboard

Hey everyone,
I am trying to get the yamaha ypg-225 to work with a software instrument in logic. THe keyboard has an internal midi device or something so it just uses usb to connect to my laptop. Specifically I am using Native Instruments FM8 and I can get it to work when i run the program as a standalone and turn on the midi connection in preferences. My question is, what do i have to change in preferences to connect the keyboard?
Thanks

You need do nothing.
As long as OSX sees the MIDI interface from the keyboard, then all is good. Logic will receive MIDI from all MIDI ports that OSX knows about - what the transport while you play some notes - you should see MIDI activity.

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