What can and cant I do with this little keyboard?

[demensia]

I Just a little yamahaa beginners keyboard.
I'm wondering, since midi records data about whats played through the instrument, if I can play a small peice (or a large one for that mater), monitor the output via the keyboard itself as a Grand Piano, and record the keystrokes in cooledit to be play back as any other General Midi Instrument..

I mean, midi doesnt record audio, but cant the data be interprited back into audio?

[Stealthtech]

Originally posted by demensia
I Just a little yamahaa beginners keyboard.
I'm wondering, since midi records data about whats played through the instrument, if I can play a small peice (or a large one for that mater), monitor the output via the keyboard itself as a Grand Piano, and record the keystrokes in cooledit to be play back as any other General Midi Instrument..

I mean, midi doesnt record audio, but cant the data be interprited back into audio?

Yeah, if your using a general midi soundcard that includes a general midi synth, you can instruct the software to playback your synth instruments. Or, playback the keyboard itself.

[demensia]

how?

[Stealthtech]

Originally posted by demensia
how?

Depends on the software your using. But find the midi driver and set the playback to midi synth.

[demensia]

Help me out man, I have no idea what your talking about.. Midi driver for what?

I have used midi to update my pod and transfer tones and stuff so I know everything is in working order..

I'm using Cool Edit 2.0 and running on a Delta 44. The MIDI port is onboard. There are some people on the syntrillium forum saying that it cant be done with cool edit, but I obviously dont know who they are so I dont believe them.

[Hawking]

I just took a little visit to the sytrillium website and lookked it the features of your version of Cool Edit. It offers MIDI playback support and MIDI trigger support. The playback support means you can play MIDI files with it but you can't record MIDI with it. The MIDI trigger support is useful if you have an external controller (not a keyboard) that you want to use to control the program (like faders and transport controls). It looks like you're going to have to find another recording program in order to record your MIDI stuff on. On the plus side, if you're used to Cool Edit and it does everything else you need it to, all you need to find is a sequencer. Sequencers don't record real audio, only MIDI information. This makes them very small and can usually run while other programs are running (like Cool Edit). Also, once you have recorded your MIDI parts, you simply open the MIDI file in Cool Edit and add your audio tracks. Obvously, it's easier to have one program that does it all (I'm a Cubase user so don't ask me for an objective opinion on this one). There's a whole slew of software out there. Some of it's cheap and some of it's not. I suggest you take a look through your favorite search engine and see what comes up wwhen you type in "MIDI sequencer" or something similar.

Since I am a Cubase user and not real up to date on the latest Cool Edit stuff, if anyone else here knows something else about Cool Edit that I missed, feel free to correct me.

[demensia]

Thanks man.. MIDI-OX is a sequencer right?
Excuse my ignorance, I'm just a guitar player.

[Hawking]

Not really. MIDI-OX is a MIDI utility program. Not really a sequencer. I will let you record MIDI data but a real sequencer does much more than that. In a sequencer, you have the option to cut and paste parts, quantize you music (that means that the program automatically lines up the notes where they're suppose to be), and probably most importantly, record multiple tracks of MIDI music.

Below is a link to the Synth Zone. There's a whole bunch of sequencers listed. They vary in price from freeware to not-so-free-ware.

http://www.synthzone.com/midiseq.htm