Brand new to this stuff --- PLEASE help with this one issue!!

All I want to do (right now anyway) is play my digital piano but be able to hear other voices/sounds/instruments. I am pretty tech-saavy and yet cannot figure out how to do this! PLEASE HELP -- thanks so much!

-Eric

Let me ask anotgher question -- when I record, it comes out perfectly, but if I want to hear what I'm playing as I'm playing it (but throught he computer), there is a bit of delay .. Is this normal?

Ps - thanks!!!

To start with set the buffer at fast (options audio) and then set the buffer setting to 128 and see if that works. If it runs okay, without pops and crackles, then bump the buffer setting to 64, and see what happens.

back at cha

Nevermind. On the CD. Jeeez I really do need sleep ;)

I don't see where in my audio settings (within control panel) to control latency ... ?

In cakewalk...options pull down...audio settings panel.
Later
Albert

Since my keyboard is only a digital piano and won't "play" other sounds (IOW, if a midi sound is 'fiddle', the keyboard plays it as piano), is there a way to hear the output out of the actual computer???

Also, would a keyboard controller fix this (meaning, will it be able to play all sounds?)

Ignore MIDI mapper, it's meaningless.

Is your digital piano connected to your computer via MIDI out to MIDI in using a MIDI interface?

If so you can use your piano to play softsynths like Dreamstation.

What soundcard do you have?

OK, I'm working with HS-4, so hope this is how it goes in MC - try 'insert', 'DXi synth' 'Dreamstation'.

If you highlight the track that appears you should hear your piano play the sound from Dreamstation, not your piano.

Oh I may not have explained correctly. I am able to to play instruments through the computer. What I am NOT able to do is to open up files that exist already (pre-loaded sound samples within cakewalk) and play them through the computer.

Ok. Fair enough!

I open cakewalk and go to file/open. There's a folder called "sonar sample content." I double click on "americana" and there are parts for fiddle, bass, banjo and drums. The program asks me if I want to send data to the midi player. If I hit yes or cancel, it seems to do the same thing: when I hit 'play,' I hear the song through my keyboard, and ONLY my keyboard, and the only sound I hear is the piano and the bass, because bass is one of the 14 sounds the keyboard has.

Ooorrr, you can attach an audio cable from the keyboard to the sound card and use MC to trigger the keyboards synth, eithe way yoiu always have to think routing where does the command start and end and what path does it take.

You hit keys on keyboard, it sends data to MC thru a midi track, midi track outputs to audio track with Synth in it, audio track outputs to sound card, sound card attaches to speaker, speaker fires off a barage of sound that then enters and please the ear!.

Routing it all in the routing.....

Side note, the reason the audio track has a synth in it is that one was added to the synth rack and that created the audio track.