Rob Keeble
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Some time ago i came home with a toy i had wanted for i dunno 20 years or more. But i could never bring myself to pay for it. When i saw it on sale a year ago i picked it up. It has been the only thing i ever bought that i got blasted for in 21 years of marriage. It was not about the money but my wifes belief that i will never ever make use of it. It is a casio keyboard.
I have wanted to try to play music given i have felt my whole life like i lean to one side only. So without knowing about Vaughns threads here, this weekend i hauled this keyboard out and tried messing with it.
Well all it did was make me aware of just how clueless i am in this field.
What i wanted to do was make a sound and have my laptop capture it but I had thought it could happen via the USB port through a midi interface. ( i still do think this but you know what thought did (planted a feather and thought a chicken would grow )
Then i hook in this morn and see Vaughns Tascam thread and the music and i feel like posting my keyboard for sale on kijji asap.
So you music boffins can anyone explain in plain english, i have read so much as to confuse the heck out of me and still no better off, just how the midi interface of one these kinds of devices is supposed to work with a computer.
I am missing a key point here.
The software such as say MIxcraft has multiple channels , i know i could plug the keyboard in the sound card input on my laptop and capture the sound that way, but what about through a midi interface. If the midi interface is meant to have the midi codes for the music passed to through the interface digitally how the heck does this get converted once again to audio in the studio devices either dedicated tascam type of the soft computer type. I realise the usb interface is not an audio channel. But one of the things the keyboards (hey this is only a cheapie) are supposed to be able to do is mimic other instruments. So am i required to have the audio output connected to the sound card and then the midi interface only able to provide instruction for how the studio is to treat said audio?
Or can the audio side be encoded into the midi protocol and be decoded software wise through these studio packages making the sound card obsolete other than for play back of the sound?
Hope any of this makes sense.
I have wanted to try to play music given i have felt my whole life like i lean to one side only. So without knowing about Vaughns threads here, this weekend i hauled this keyboard out and tried messing with it.
Well all it did was make me aware of just how clueless i am in this field.
What i wanted to do was make a sound and have my laptop capture it but I had thought it could happen via the USB port through a midi interface. ( i still do think this but you know what thought did (planted a feather and thought a chicken would grow )
Then i hook in this morn and see Vaughns Tascam thread and the music and i feel like posting my keyboard for sale on kijji asap.
So you music boffins can anyone explain in plain english, i have read so much as to confuse the heck out of me and still no better off, just how the midi interface of one these kinds of devices is supposed to work with a computer.
I am missing a key point here.
The software such as say MIxcraft has multiple channels , i know i could plug the keyboard in the sound card input on my laptop and capture the sound that way, but what about through a midi interface. If the midi interface is meant to have the midi codes for the music passed to through the interface digitally how the heck does this get converted once again to audio in the studio devices either dedicated tascam type of the soft computer type. I realise the usb interface is not an audio channel. But one of the things the keyboards (hey this is only a cheapie) are supposed to be able to do is mimic other instruments. So am i required to have the audio output connected to the sound card and then the midi interface only able to provide instruction for how the studio is to treat said audio?
Or can the audio side be encoded into the midi protocol and be decoded software wise through these studio packages making the sound card obsolete other than for play back of the sound?
Hope any of this makes sense.