Anything could happen with my rig
 
Thanks for your help. I'm hopeless when it comes to setting up gear. I know how to USE the gear once it's set up, at least!
 
One more question: Tomorrow, when I've gone downtown, bought a stereo to mono lead, set it up, opened Sonar... What routing do I need to do then? In the Input for the audio track, where I currently have 'Left M-Audio...' selected, will I need to select 'Stereo M Audio...' instead? Or will it be a case of setting up TWO audio tracks, one with 'Left M Audio...' and one with 'Right M Audio...'?
 
Cheers
Dave
 

Yes for sure :-) just make sure the input levels to soundcard are correct etc, you know, the usual stuff and you will be good to go. I would also check the master eq in the yamaha settings (I believe it has one) just to make sure it's not on a 'wild' setting.

Keep us posted

Bibs

You can do either just make sure your panning is correct.

I have a Yamaha keyboard that I route the audio out of, into my audio interface, and into Sonar, to capture the audio output from the keyboard, in addition to using it to trigger soft synths.
 
The output jack in the back of your keyboard is a single STEREO output jack, just like mine.  
 
I went to Radio Shack and bought a 1/4" male stereo to two 1/4" female mono connector splitter.  I plug the 1/4" male stereo plug into the stereo output jack of my Yamaha.  This leaves the two mono connectors hanging off of that.  I then plug standard 1/4" mono instrument cables into the 2 mono connectors of the splitter, and run those two instrument cables into 2 inputs of my audio interface.
 
I then adjust the keyboard volume and the input volume of the 2 channels of my interface, and have 2 audio tracks in Sonar for these 2 channels from the interface.  Both of these are mono channels, and I pan them left and right, appropriately.
 
I set the levels for the 2 audio tracks in Sonar, and I am good to go.  The reason I use two mono tracks in Sonar is to be able to apply different effects to the two channels (left and right).  For a keyboard, I would likely add a slight delay to one of the channels, usually the left, to widen the sound - like Tony Banks from Genesis did to get that incredible sound.
 
I hope the above helps.
 
Bob Bone
 

robert_e_bone
I have a Yamaha keyboard that I route the audio out of, into my audio interface, and into Sonar, to capture the audio output from the keyboard, in addition to using it to trigger soft synths.
 
The output jack in the back of your keyboard is a single STEREO output jack, just like mine.  
 
I went to Radio Shack and bought a 1/4" male stereo to two 1/4" female mono connector splitter.  I plug the 1/4" male stereo plug into the stereo output jack of my Yamaha.  This leaves the two mono connectors hanging off of that.  I then plug standard 1/4" mono instrument cables into the 2 mono connectors of the splitter, and run those two instrument cables into 2 inputs of my audio interface.
 
I then adjust the keyboard volume and the input volume of the 2 channels of my interface, and have 2 audio tracks in Sonar for these 2 channels from the interface.  Both of these are mono channels, and I pan them left and right, appropriately.
 
I set the levels for the 2 audio tracks in Sonar, and I am good to go.  The reason I use two mono tracks in Sonar is to be able to apply different effects to the two channels (left and right).  For a keyboard, I would likely add a slight delay to one of the channels, usually the left, to widen the sound - like Tony Banks from Genesis did to get that incredible sound.
 
I hope the above helps.
 
Bob Bone
 

Very helpful Bob - thank you.
I have now got everything set up! Thanks everyone.
Dave.

Great news, Dave.
 
Can you edit your initial post for this thread, and add something like 'Solved'?  This will let others know they don't have to wade through a bunch of posts to get up to speed on something they want to help with, only to find out it has already been resolved.  It's certainly not mandatory - just a nice practice for the others in the forum.  It will also make it easier for some other guy with a similar issue to know that this thread contains the solution.
 
So, if you choose to do it, just edit the first post of this thread, and as the author, you can add text to the subject line.
 
Thanks, and again, great news.
 
Bob Bone
 

Or better still click "Answer" button under what Bob wrote.
Cheers...

Sorry - I forgot that Answer button is there.  
 
That's the thing about old dogs, they can learn new tricks, but only if they are looking, and can see them.
 
Bob Bone
 

Well either way really don't matter, long as one can see (I can just about hear and see, almost...)... ;)

Done