Yamaha S08 keyboard with USB not interacting with Logic

I just bought a used Yamaha S08 88 key weighted keyboard and I can't seem to get the key presses to register in Logic 8 or Mainstage. It has a USB port on the back which I've plugged into my Macbook Pro running 10.4.10 and when I open up the preferences panel in Mainstage it recognizes that 1 MIDI device is connected but nothing happens when I press the keys. I've downloaded and installed the USB drivers from Yamaha (Yamaha USB-MIDI v1.1.0) and when I open up the Yamaha USB-MIDI Patch preferences pane it explicitly shows that a Yamaha S08 is plugged in (it disappears when I unplug the usb cable). I plugged in my M-Audio usb keyboard with the same cable just to make sure both the cable and programs were working and it worked right away. Any ideas on why I can't seem to get the Yamaha up and running?

I figured it out - I had to dig into some sub menus of the keyboard to set USB as the midi out rather than the midi ports.

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