thedopehouse said:
i have no idea how to transfer sound from my keyboard to homestudio v.2. i know i have all the necessary equipment to do this (midi adapter, maudio), but i am completely manual-illiterate, so any help at all would be greatly appreciated. please email me as well as answering this post if you are down to help an artist in need. thanks and one love
When you say you have "M-Audio" are you talkng about a MIDI interface that plugs into your computer and your MIDI/Synth, soundcard, both, other? We use Cakewalk Homestudio Pro XL 2004 and an M-Audio (Midiman) Radium MIDI controller (no sound module, so we use the software synth sounds available in HSXL2004,) and we have an M-Audio Delta 1010 so plug into the MIDI ins of the card, providing us our MIDI interface. We need more specifics here to be of much help. Have you plugged everything in or are you asking for help at that level?
If you've got it all connected, it's all in the software (various apps) from that point forward. Don't know V2, but does it allow you to insert a MIDI track? If so, it does MIDI sequencing, so you'd record the MIDI data, not the audio (that's what the M-Audio MIDI interface is for: it transmits data, not audio). But, if you are ONLY talking about treating your synthesizer as any other instrument and just recording it as audio, you'd cable it up to the soundcard line in. Or both (record the MIDI data, then play it back through your sound module to record the audio). I think your signal is already at line level if you have a sound module (looks like you do, I looked your sythn up on the net), so no preamp needed (I think).
Gotta give us a bit more to go on, though. Details about where you are at right now, where you want to be, and exactly what the equipment is you've referred to rather generally (people can look them up to learn more about them, read the manual, so to speak.).
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is difficult to make sense of the manuals when you have no preexisting knowledge of the technical information available in them. It's all Greek, basically, if you are just starting out. Just know that you should also be using manuals and don't give up on using them. I have to reread manuals dozens of times, sometimes the same paragraph, before I ever understand it. But don't give up, my advice. I even took a course to start understanding the basics (lucky that there was one available, though).
It's really hard to get very far very fast with technical stuff if you don't read the manual, I gotta say it. It is an acquired skill. You write a cohesive sentence, so you have the potential. You will take a really long time getting where you want to go if you come here for the answers to your questions before you check the manual and manufacturer's other support information. AND you'll still have to read technical stuff in the answers, but (most of the time) a lot less expert in the product you're trying to use and a LOT slower than going to the manual.
(I base this not on my audio recording experience, which is only a couple of years old, but I have for decades been working in a technical field where I would NEVER have made it without the manuals. My ability to read and decipher technical material, even if at first Greek, has really helped us to move forward with our recording project. It's been frustrating, even so. So, my advice, don't give up on the manuals, even if you have to come here to get people to help you decipher them !)
Oh, and most software today has REALLY good online HELP, which is just another form of manual.
