Suggestions on modifying M-Audio Keystation 49es with Arduino

Worst comes to absolute worst, I can leave the internals of the keyboard in tact and mount the midi breakout board I/O on the back of the keyboard and take the existing output to the new input and then out again from there to whatever I want to control.

Like I say I am not convinced but that would be great if it worked.

Let us know how you get on when it arrives.