Midi to digital???

[Jeff Wright]

Greetings! I know extremely little about Cakewalk, but hope that someone
can steer me in the right direction. I recently purchased a Yamaha digital
keyboard (model YPG-635). It has a USB port that can save my recordings in
midi format (like, to a flash drive). My objective is to save my
performances onto an audio CD, but I guess I need a computer program to do
this. Searching around the Internet, it seems that Cakewalk has umpteen
programs that may or may not do what I want. Can anyone recommend any
Cakewalk software that can utilize the midi commands from my keyboard, with
the end result being a audio CD that can be played on a standard CD
player????

Thanks!

Jeff

[Rootworker]

Okay, there's a bunch of different things you can do with your
keyboard and cakewalk. The simplest way to get what you're asking for
is to forget (for the time being) the USB and MIDI ports on the
keyboard. If you run the audio outputs from your keyboard to the
line-in of your sound card or audio interface, you can then add an
audio track to your Cakewalk project, set the input pulldown to the
audio input you're hooked up to, arm the track, hit record, and play
away.

You can then export that track to a WAV file (make sure you export as
16-bit and 44kHz (CD-quality), and when you burn it to disk (make sure
you choose audio format in your burning software) the result should
play on any CD player.

There are MANY other ways you can go about this, and to describe them
all would entail writing a book on the subject, but here's one useful
technique: Hook up your MIDI 'Out' from the keyboard into the MIDI
'In' of your recording interface (most sound cards will support a MIDI
converter that plugs into the 'game port' on the card.) You then
record as you play, but what's being captured is not the actual sound
of the keyboard, but digital data identifying the notes, velocities,
modulation, etc. -- sort of like a digital player-piano roll. You can
them play it back through your sound card, or even the original
keyboard, and record from that.

Why would you bother, you ask? Well, if you're not a 100% perfect
player, it's very easy to go into the resulting MIDI file, correct
notes, timing, etc ., and them record the cleaned up version. Cakewalk
even has a 'quantize' function that will automagically correct the
timing for you, if it's not too far off to begin with. An added bonus
is that MIDI can be converted directly into a sheet music
transcription, in Cakewalk, or by importing into other programs, like
Coda Finale.

Hope this helps.

Joe
http://www.rootwerx.com

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:41:30 -0700, "Jeff Wright" <jeffw...@cox.net>
wrote: