Broken synth - will it still work for midi?

I got given an old Roland HS-60 which kind of works but not really.. Every few keys or so it will either not make any sound or it will make a horrible high pitched, distorted noise. Making it pretty much impossible to play.

However, I was wondering if it would be possible to use it as just a midi keyboard in Ableton using one of these http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Uno.html
(i dont have a recording interface at the moment or cash)