Recording my keyboard. Yamaha PSR333 with USB output...

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2011/08/06 12:02:34 (permalink)

Recording my keyboard. Yamaha PSR333 with USB output...

Hi
I am learning to play the keyboard. It has a USB connection so can plug it into my PC.
Can I record this with my V Studio 100 and Sonar X1?
Do I need anything else hardware wise?
Thanks any help appreciated.
John
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    DigitalArchivist
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    Re:Recording my keyboard. Yamaha PSR333 with USB output... 2011/08/06 12:37:02 (permalink)
    If the keyboard as a Phones/Output Jack, you'll need to buy an audio cable to plug into your V Studio 100's input jacks. The V Studio 100 manual should provide some direction on which of the input jacks to use and the type of cable but since your keyboard only has a single output jack, the cable itself will be a Y-type. The audio cable will enable you to record the audio signal from the keyboard. The USB cable only transmits MIDI and in order to "hear" the keyboard you'd have to insert a virtual instrument (VSTi) which Sonar calls a Synth. What you're hearing is the non-audio MIDI data (notes, etc.) as interpreted by the virtual instrument, which could be anything from a guitar to a tuba to a synthesized foghorn.
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    Re:Recording my keyboard. Yamaha PSR333 with USB output... 2011/08/06 14:18:03 (permalink)
    Jorel,
     
    Your setup gives you a lot of different ways to record from your Yamaha Keyboard.  The main advantage to using its MIDI interface to record to X1 (instead of just recording directly on the Yamaha) is that you can go into what you have recorded and edit it, copy and paste, change tempo, transpose keys, and lots of other things.  You can record the audio (as mentioned above) or you can record the sequence of keys and play them back using diferent software instruments and effects (this is MIDI).
     
    You may want better computer speakers/amplifier and a better sound card for your computer, but you can get by while you learn with what you have.
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