cakewalk and psr330

[Gumbylives]

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me.
I have a Yamaha Portatone PSR-330 keyboard with a midi interface that connects into my joystick port on my SoundBlaster Live soundcard. I have the midi out of the keyboard going into the midi in of the soundcard and vice versa. I recently purchased Cakewalk Sonar and would like to set up the keyboard for midi use.
I am relatively new to this...so please be patient.

I am running a Pentium 3 700mhz with 448 ram and SBLive! soundcard on a Win98SE machine.

On the PSR 330 I have it turned on prior to starting Cakewalk and have local off, and external clock set to ON.

When I go into my control panel in Win98SE and select the multimedia tab my single instrument selected is Single Instrument SB Live! MIDI OUT 1000. The other options I have below are:
A:SB Live Midi Synth
B:SB Live Midi Synth
Creative SW Synth

When I open Cakewalk Sonar and go to Midi Settings I have SB Live! MIDI In (1000) for the inputs.
For the Outputs I have these options:
A:SB Live! MIDI Synth
Midi Mapper
Creative S/W Synth
B:SB Live! Midi Synth
SB Live! MIDI Out (1000)
In the instruments I have Output/Channel 1:A:SB Live! MIDI Synth/1 selected and it uses Instrument: SoundFont Device.

I would like to know what I have to do on the PSR 330 in order to get Cakewalk to record what I play on the midi keyboard. Now can it only send midi information and I have to assign a sound for the incoming midi inside of cakewalk using the instruments toolbar. (What Synth should I use in there?)
Can send what I play from the keyboard into cakewalk and still retain the voices?
How do I set up my system so that I can have my keyboard play anysound that I want that is not on its original voices. Like say a vocal sample.
I have downloaded the psr330 pdf but am still having problems...
Any help would really...I mean really be appreciated.
Thank you

 

[AlChuck]

Let me see if I have this right -- you want to play back the songs using the PSR keyboard's sounds?

In a nutshell...

First, to record, you need to know what channel the keyboard is sending its MIDI data out on. Its MIDI Out needs to be connected by a MIDI cable to the SB Live MIDI In, of course. And your track needs to be set to be recording data from channel 1 of the MIDI In, or OMNI.

To play back, the tracks need to be set to use the SB Live MIDI Out port. Then the keyboard (with its MIDI In connected by a MIDI cable to the SB Live MIDI Out, of course) needs to be set to receive on the channel(s) you are sending from Cakewalk. For example, say Track 1 in your sequence is sending on MIDI Channel 1 and is a piano part. You need to select the desired piano patch on the PSR (easy if you have an instrument definition file for your keyboard, though I suspect it's got the same patch numbers as any standard General MIDI synth). On the keyboard itself, you have to set it to respond to incoming MIDI data on channel 1.

All this should be in the manual and help system and I don't know if what I'm writing is any clearer than that or maybe even more confusing...

 

[a modified dog]

I've got a PSR-540 hooked up to my PC and use Home Studio. I don't know if this helps, but it took me forever to get a little of this music technology stuff into my brain, and I was grateful for info, whether the advice answered my question or not (Alright, Blu Bear Sound, I admit it... I was a pain in the ass, and I gave you shit about your advice, but I've learned a lot from you too).

If you're wondering how to reproduce what the PSR plays, in other words, XG midi sounds, you'll need to record them as audio and not MIDI. However, Yamaha does make a couple of soft synths which replicate XG sounds, so you can send the MIDI to the PC and have the SoftSynth driver play it back as MIDI.

I hope I didn't confuse you or add to your misery.

Denis