Composing music!
2007-03-14 by apostle042003
Can anyone tell me how I can play my keyboard into the computer and then burn my music to CD? Sure would appreciate your help!
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Composing music!
Re: Composing music!
2007-03-14 by yadidisklavier
There are a few steps involved so this is going to be long.... Is it an electronic keyboard with MIDI In and Out? If so, get familiar with a sequencer software. There are some off the shelf (find them at retailers like Best Buy). Some higher end with additional audio capabilities (ie. cakewalk sonar) can cost over $100. The more expensive packages usually are more intuitive, have more features and better documentation. Once you've recorded your piece into the PC via midi, you can edit it for perfection and play it back through either your keyboard (ala mid in) or even your soundcard in the PC. But this is a midi file...not a digital audio file required to burn a CD. You need to convert this into an audio file format, or to put it another way, you need to now record the audio being generated by the midi file you have created. To burn an audio CD (one to played in a car, home stereo, etc.), you'll need a soundcard on your PC that has inputs (for recording audio). Cakewalk software is good for this step in that it will both drive the midi performance and record the inbound audio in one step. Once the piece is recorded in the audio format you are finished with the midi file. Using the Cakewalk software, you could further eq or enhance the audio file so it is suitable for home audio listening. Then, using Cakewalk again, you save/convert the cakewalk audio file into a format that can be used with any cheap audio CD burning software (ie Roxio). Midi => PC PC (midi) => digital audio digital audio => CD Its not as difficult as it sounds. I'm sure others in this forum can improve on what I've said....Hope this helps. --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "apostle042003" <apostle042003@...> wrote:
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> > Can anyone tell me how I can play my keyboard into the computer and > then burn my music to CD? > Sure would appreciate your help! >
Re: [disklavier] Re: Composing music!
2007-03-14 by Shana Kirk
Also, you may want to capture the audio directly from the output of your keyboard. When you play a MIDI file on something besides the instrument that created that MIDI file, the sounds may not be exactly as you intend. For instance, if you chose a MIDI sound on your keyboard that is not supported by your computer's soundcard, the computer will probably default to the closest thing it has. In some cases, this is OK (usually solo piano works out alright), but with unusual orchestrations or synth voices, there will be some differences.
Shana
On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:18 PM, yadidisklavier wrote:
There are a few steps involved so this is going to be long....
Is it an electronic keyboard with MIDI In and Out? If so, get familiar
with a sequencer software. There are some off the shelf (find them at
retailers like Best Buy). Some higher end with additional audio
capabilities (ie. cakewalk sonar) can cost over $100. The more
expensive packages usually are more intuitive, have more features and
better documentation.
Once you've recorded your piece into the PC via midi, you can edit it
for perfection and play it back through either your keyboard (ala mid
in) or even your soundcard in the PC. But this is a midi file...not a
digital audio file required to burn a CD. You need to convert this
into an audio file format, or to put it another way, you need to now
record the audio being generated by the midi file you have created.
To burn an audio CD (one to played in a car, home stereo, etc.), you'll
need a soundcard on your PC that has inputs (for recording audio).
Cakewalk software is good for this step in that it will both drive the
midi performance and record the inbound audio in one step. Once the
piece is recorded in the audio format you are finished with the midi
file. Using the Cakewalk software, you could further eq or enhance the
audio file so it is suitable for home audio listening. Then, using
Cakewalk again, you save/convert the cakewalk audio file into a format
that can be used with any cheap audio CD burning software (ie Roxio).
Midi => PC
PC (midi) => digital audio
digital audio => CD
Its not as difficult as it sounds. I'm sure others in this forum can
improve on what I've said....Hope this helps.
--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "apostle042003" ...>
wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can play my keyboard into the computer and
> then burn my music to CD?
>; Sure would appreciate your help!
>
Re: [disklavier] Re: Composing music!
2007-03-14 by ISKI1@aol.com
Once you have the midi file you can also use mid2PianoCD _http://dp70.dyndns.org/mid2pianocd/_ (http://dp70.dyndns.org/mid2pianocd/) to create and audio CD. <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.