Cakewalk to Kurzweil K2000 MIDI recording problems

[brianosaur]

Hi folks:

I recently recorded all of my songs from an Ensoniq to Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 via MIDI, with the intention of loading them back into the Kurzweil K2000 (the Ensoniq is now dead, unfortunately). I can't seem to get the MIDI recording to work.

I have tried to do this with the Cakewalk files as MIDI Format 0 and 1 just in case that was the issue. In either case, the clock in the Kurzweil is set to external and the channels seem right, but it never takes the info. I hear the notes being played through the headphones in the Kurzweil, but it just doesn't do anything.

Another way I tried to do this was using in the ".wrk" file type in Cakewalk to see if that made a difference. This time the clock seemed to work, and I could hear the music, but on playback in the Kurzweil, the notes seem to be all bunched in together in one measure, and it sounds horrible.

The user manuals are very light on how to get this kind of thing going, and I am beyond frustrated now after about 12 hours of struggling. Does anyone have any suggestion?

Brian

 

[acidrock]

I'm not totally understanding your question.
Are you saying that the keyboard is not recording the midi file correctly?
When the keyboard is slaved to PA9 the does the song play correctly?

 

[brianosaur]

Is plays correctly, but I am trying to record it into the Kurz...

I am attempting to record the MIDI file into the Kurzweil keyboard. When I play it on the Cakewalk into it, I can hear the notes sounding in the K2000 (without program changes, cause I haven't added those in). But I am attempting to play on Cakewalk and record on the Kurzweil, not just control the Kurzweil.

I currently have these files in the Cakewalk as ".wrk" and ".mid" (format 0 or 1) file types. Some of these songs were ported over to the Cakewalk as work in progress (in a mad attempt to get them out of the Ensoniq before it died for good), and I need to add a lot of work to finish them off, so I want them to live on the Kurzweil without having to physically play them into it again (which I did originally on the Ensoniq).

Maybe my thinking is wrong on this one. Do you feel that trying to get a song back onto a keyboard for editing is an ancient way of going about it? Should I be editing my songs on the computer and using the keyboard as a slave?

The thing is, once the song lives in the computer in MIDI, I eventually would have to:

1) Play the song with the computer as Master.
2) Send the song through the Keyboard as a slave
3) Simultaneously record back into the computer digitally

Maybe this explains why I want the song to live on the keyboard.

 

[brianosaur]

Possible Fix

Well, I guess if you mess around with something long enough, you get a kluge that works. According to the manual for Kurzweil, it tells you to put the CLOCK on Ext to let the external source drive the recording. Obviously, this didn't work, but I set the Cakewalk clock to "MID" and then used the internal clock for the Kurzweil, and it worked! Geez...