RE: Can I use my actual keyboard sounds in recording?
2005/06/11 11:33:41
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There may be someone that knows how to do that, but I don’t think it is possible.
The MIDI messages from the keyboard and recorded by Cakewalk are just instructions to the instrument (sound card or keyboard) on what notes to play. There is no sound associated with them. Think of the old player pianos. The paper roll instructs the individual instrument, but doesn’t in of itself carry any sound. Any sound coming out of your computer is going to be from the sounds stored in the computer. The only way I know of to get your keyboard’s sounds into the computer is to record it as audio (with a mic I front of the keyboard speaker).
There may be ways to transfer the sounds from the keyboard into the computer using sound fonts, but my sound card doesn’t support them so I never learned much about sound fonts in the first place. The keyboard would have to use that technology a well, and I’m not sure if yours or any keyboard has that capability.