Re: Recording from a Yamaha keyboard

Mark

Audacity Help <audacity-helplists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

| From MARK REDZIKOWSKI
| Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:06:22 -0700 (PDT)
| Subject: [Audacity-help] Recording from a Yamaha keyboard
| Can this software record from a keyboard source?

Yes, please see the list of Audacity features :
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features

The most common way to record from a keyboard would be to connect a
cable from headphones out or line-out/aux out of the keyboard to line-in of
the computer (usually blue), then set the "Recording Device" on the Audio I/O
tab of Audacity Preferences to your inbuilt sound device, and the input source
to line-in.

You wil choose the input source in different places according to what operating
system you are on. If you are on Windows Vista, you need to choose the line-in
input along with the recording device e.g. "Line-In: High Definition Device". If
you are on some version of Windows other than Vista, or on Linux, you need to
choose the line-in input in the dropdown selector of the Mixer Toolbar:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/onlinehelp-1.2/toolbar_mixer.htm

If you are on OS X, the dropdown selector will probably be greyed out. In
that case you need to click on the Mac hard disk and then on Applications >
Utilities > Audio-MIDI Setup. Click on the Audio Devices tab and make sure
on the left-hand side that your built-in audio is selected in the "Default Input"
and "Properties for" dropdowns, and that in Audio Input under that, the
"source" is set to line-in. If you are on OS X 10.1 or earlier, there is no
Audio-MIDI Setup and you have to make the microphone to be your input
source in Apple Menu > System Preferences > Sound.

Whatever your operating system please make sure on the Mixer Toolbar that
the right-hand input volume slider (by the microphone symbol) is turned up.

If you use the headphones out of the keyboard to record from, this will
give you no sound from the keyboard speakers, so to hear what you are
playing you will need to unmute the line-in in the playback section of the
system mixer (e.g. on Windows XP, the Audio tab of Sounds and Audio
Devices in the Windows Control Panel). If you are on OS X, you would
need instead to enable "hardware playthrough" on the Audio I/O tab of
Audacity Preferences. If none of the above gives you playthrough of your
recording through the computer speakers, you can try "software playthrough"
on the same Audio I/O tab.

If you have any further questions after reviewing the above information,
please let us know what operating system you are on (e.g. Windows XP,
OS X 10.4, and if you are on OS X, whether you have an Intel Mac or
Power PC). Also please tell us what version of Audacity you are using (see
Help > About Audacity or Audacity > About Audacity in the program).


Gale Andrews



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