chrisloveday
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PSR-225
I recently purchased Cakewalks USB Music Pack and I'm having a lot of trouble hooking up my PSR-225 Keyboard to my computer. I can't record from my keyboard to my computer. I've gone through the tutorials and nothing has worked. I don't think the keyboard functions are set up correctly. I was wondering if anyone is familiar with this keyboard or have any tips.
Thanks,
Chris
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Beagle
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Chris, I have a PSR-295 and I'm sure it's very similar, but you've not given me much information to go on.
Computer/processor
RAM
Sound Card (very important)
How you hook the PSR-225 up to the computer (USB or MIDI cables?)
Are you recording any MIDI data or are you just not hearing any sounds when you play the track?
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57Gregy
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Did you run the wave profiler? Did you connect the out MIDI cord to the input on the keyboard, and the in MIDI cord to the output? Greg
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Robomusic
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Greg i bet he is using USB to connect.
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Beagle
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I would have bet so, too, thinking that his keyboard was similar enough to mine and mine doesn't have MIDI I/O, only USB, but I looked it up and this keyboard he's talking about doesn't have USB, only MIDI I/O and thru. Of course, it doesn't really matter if he doesn't return to tell us more about his system and what his problem is. 
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57Gregy
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I didn't know some 'boards have only USB connections. I just assumed it was a MIDI-to-USB cable. Greg
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Beagle
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Yep, mine is USB only and there are a lot of the boards out by Yamaha and Casio within the last 3-4 years have USB only and no MIDI ports.
If I had known then what I know now, I probably wouldn't have chosen this board, but it will get me thru what I need it to for a while.
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dhalbert
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I'm a little late to the game on this, but to follow up on the original poster's problem, there is a specific issue between certain USB-to-MIDI interfaces and certain Yamaha keyboards. As an example, read the customer reviews here for the Midisport Uno interface: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007JRBM/ . I have seen similar complaints elsewhere. Though the Music Pack USB interface is not necessarily exactly the Midisport interface, it could use the same chip internally, and may have similar problems. Cakewalk Technical Support might know about this.l
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very interesting, dhalbert. I have had some minor problems with my yamaha psr-295 usb connection, but nothing similar to these problems. it has never missed any notes or any other data that I know of. the only issue I have is that SHS4 will "loose" the USB keyboard if I close down SHS4 and bring it back up again. Sometimes I have to reboot in order for SHS4 to find the USB keyboard again. this doesn't happen often enough to cause me too much grief except that I wish that I had MIDI I/O instead of USB only - but I've never lost any data!
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