No signal from keyboard to garage band

OSX 10.8.2 - GarageBand 11- KeyStudio M-Audio Keyboard
MacBook Pro
System is on. USB attached. No signal showing up in Software Instrument Track, no sound. In GB Prefs, It says 1MIDI input is detected, but nothing is happening.

Nevermind, I figured this out myself. M-Audio does NOT support even OSX 7 much less OSX 8. (Yet they still sell it in the AppleStore)???
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Anyway, my keyboard is dead and that is why. Others, beware.

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I had what sounds like the same problem with my new iMacG5 I tried everything I could think of and had several discussions with Apple support. Nothing worked until I went on the Yahama website and chat. Found my answer there.
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