Keyboard Recording Software

[Macedonio Heninger]

Thiswidespread love of keyboards means that there will always be a need to capture their sound in the studio. How you approach it will depend on the keyboarditself and the setup you have in your home studio, as well as the sound you want to record. The most popular ways are:

The best way to introduce natural distortion to a keyboard recording sound would be through a tube amplifier. Like tube guitar amps, when the volume is turned up loudly the tube circuitry overloads, creating an overdriven sound. The classic Leslie speaker, made famous during the late 1960s and through the 1970s alongside the Hammond B-3 organ, is the most famous of these.

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Rather than [u]overdubbing[/u] where one layer is added at a time, most modern recordings are [u]multi-tracked[/u]. With multi-track recording, each instrument and vocal is recorded separately.

My Overdubbing sessions give me each instrument on its own track. Each pass records a new track and you can play the others into your headphones or not as you wish with the SOLO and MUTE buttons on each track.

@Atlas thanks for your reply, what am trying to record is audio from the keyboard, i.e keyboard audios directly into my track on logic...So if my keyboard is showing signal which I can hear from logic,does that mean it is connected as a midi where it cannot record keyboard audios directly but it can record as midi and that the only way to record is load the presets from my logic library to that track and record using the keyboard as midi?

@Triplets appreciate your feedback, so now If it is sending midi signals through USB can I still record but using the keyboard as midi instead and then loading presets from the logic library to that track?

I don't have access to the Montage's docs, so I can't tell if it can route its audio output (digitally) via USB, or if it does same via a dedicated audio outputs. If latter case is the only available option, you would normally need an audio interface device to convert the Yamaha analog audio to digital signal. I say normally, because some are using their Mac's audio input (which does the analog to digital comversion) with some success, although limited in terms of quality. Some caution here is highly recommended as the Yamaha's output level could damage the Mac's audio input!

Using an audio interface device usually require drivers installation on your Mac (those drivers are normally provided by the company that produced the audio device). Once properly installed, in order to be able to record the audio, you need to select the corresponding audio device in Logic Audio Devices preferences.

HOW MIDI IS ROUTED

If an audio track and a MIDI track share the same MIDI channel, the MIDI track will block the audio track from sending out data while the audio track will block the MIDI track from receiving data.

how do I make the OT differentiate between using a cc command and playing e.g. the corresponding note chromatic ally (e.g. I want to control the track level (cc46) by midi controller and want to play the same note (a2#) on the same audio track with the same multi functional midi keyboard?

There is a warning message just under the Keyboardmaestro menu bar icon, saying that screen recording is disabled, this in spite of having given permission to Keyboardmaestro in the screen recording system preferences. How can you resolve this?

This did the trick for me:

"In Big Sur and later, you can actively add the Keyboard Maestro Engine to the Screen Recording permission in the System Preferences, Security & Privacy, Privacy, Screen Recording settings by unlocking the System Preferences, and then finding Keyboard Maestro.app in the Finder, control or right click on it, select Show Package Contents, drill down in to Contents, and then MacOS to find the Keyboard Maestro Engine.app, and then drag that in to the Screen Recording settings."

I'm was having the same problem as Geoffrey in Big Sur 11.6 20G165 and the latest version of KM: 10.0.

The alert states: "Screen Recording permission is needed to capture images of the screen, or find images on the screen. Please enable Screen Recording for Keyboard Maestro and Keyboard Maestro Engine in the Screen Recording section of the Privacy section of the Security & Privacy system preference pane." The problem was how to find the Keyboard Maestro Engine to add to the Screen Recording section.

I also had this issue - as a very new user and was immensely confused, especially as I couldn't find the engine anywhere on my system. I eventually thought of doing a right click on the app itself and choosing 'open package contents', then went through the folders, found the engine, made an alias and dragged it to the applications folder. That way it showed up as an app to be selected in the privacy section of System Preferences. That approach might be overkill, but at least I'll be be able to find it again if I need it.

I use Cubase LE AI elements 9.5 on a hp laptop running windows 10. I am attempting to record audio directly from my Yamaha psr-e333 keyboard to my computer. I have installed the midi driver from Yamaha.

From day one I have struggled with this software, I find it extremely complex, and having watched numerous videos from cubase it still makes no sense to me, there are certain features that do not add up. For example, I have spent a large portion of today trying to record my keyboard, I managed to do it, but it will ONLY play back through the keyboard itself while the rest of the audio plays through my laptop. I also noticed while recording that the audio only recorded if I used the dual feature on my keyboard, i.e. two voices at once e.g. dual piano or piano and strings. That makes no sense to me. Additionally it was recording only basic piano and negating any of the dual voices and sustain, it once picked up just strings on their own, and I dont understand why its removing all of the effects etc from my keyboard.

On Windows, I used TinyTask multiple times a week for years (amazing program, recommended for every Windows user). Now I want to switch to Linux, but I can't find a program that does the same: Start recording mouse+keyboard, stop recording, start replay (multiple times replay, faster replay optional).

What I want is something that saves me effort when I e.g. have to do a 1-minute action combination 10 times or so, so manually writing a script is not an option. Xdotool is a nice program to do that, but for everyday use I need something that can record input as well.

A free option is of course preferred, a paid one is acceptable if I can test it beforehand and it's really good and not stupidly expensive (I donated 50$ to TinyTask and that one was absolutely amazing, so it shouldn't be much more than that).

I'm trying setup my Casio CTK-6000 electric keyboard to be able to be recorded through my Windows 10 computer using Audacity. I have this cable connected to the two "L/R Line Out" spots in the keyboard and I have connected the keyboard to the computer. Windows asks if what I am plugging in is a headphone or "speaker out". Whichever I choose, the keyboard appears nowhere under "recording devices".

I turn on the keyboard, open Audacity and go to Edit -> Preferences -> Devices. The option for the keyboard is nowhere in any of the dropdown menus (it's still just the default stuff). How do I get this setup to work?

Like many laptops, according to this page your ASUS UX51 has a "combo audio socket". This is not really intended for what you want to do. The fundamental problem is that the computer can't both record and play back sounds through the one audio socket, so at best you would be continually swapping the plugs between your Casio keyboard to record, and your headphones or speakers when checking the recording you made with Audacity.

Note, this is not a recommendation for this specific device (I've never used it) - it's just an example of what these adapters look like, i.e. a "thumb drive plus some audio connectors". There are many similar devices available in the same price range.

There are many similar devices for sale, and some only provide audio out (for example 7-channel surround sound) so make sure you get one that has an audio input socket - and if you don't need surround sound output, don't pay extra for something you will never use!

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