Help with recording a keyboard in please.

Brief reading from the Roland SH201 states that with its USB connectivity, both MIDI data AND audio can be transfered to a pc.

That's independent of the sound card....So try it!

You shouldn't need any adapter cables or MIDI adapters...Just ONE single USB cable from your Roland to the PC..You'd need to install the Roland drivers, and those likely wouldn't work with MIDI adapters or cables, though...So USB connection should be your best approach.

you should be able to hear and record at the same time,.... full duplex..... with your soundcard. All of the dedicated music interfaces do allow that. It's the factory and other non-music specific cards that might give some problems......
glad yours works OK.

soundcard = creative soundblaster
therefore to do what you want to do, you need to change your soundblaster settings to 'WHAT YOU HEAR"
however that will cause other problems when you start to record - you'll record all the backing tracks at the same time.

ok - after looking at the specs of your sh201, it says it sends audio thru the usb cable, but then it says it doesn't.  marketing.  what it does is send MIDI thru the cable and then they supply you with a VSTi (softsynth) which is used to make the sounds of your keyboard triggered by MIDI.

so what you need to do is insert that SH201 softsynth into MC and then set up a MIDI track with the output to the SH201 softsynth, THEN you will be able to hear the keyboard as you record it from the software.

depending on your latency settings, however, there may be a delay between when you press a key on the keyboard and when you hear it from the SB output.

well - I'm looking at it again and it says "both MIDI and AUDIO can be routed through the USB"

if that really is the case, you would have to select it as an audio interface device.  run the wave profiler (in WDM Driver mode) while the sh201 is connected and if it truly does have an audio interface in the USB output, then it will show up as a "soundcard" that you can select directly from the inupts in an audio track.

yeah, as I said, you have to be in WDM driver mode and you have to run the wave profiler while the sh201 is connected via usb.  then it will find the sh201 as a soundcard and you should be able to select those inputs from an audio track.

The only way you'd hear sound from your pc headphones jack is when the sound is produced by the sound card.

That depends on the output of the audio track.

So, if the sound is being sent to the external audio interface, you wouldn't hear it in the pc's headphone jack, or an audio card's heaphone jack.

There are other ways to route audio to various places, with utilities or vst hosts, but that's beyond the issue, seems to me.


But if you are in MME mode, then you could set a duplicate track of the audio and route each to a different output.

Some of this can depen on the sound card's capabilities too..

Some creative cards do have various physical outputs, like the 5.1 cards, for instance, so that wouldn't limit it to "What you hear".