Hooking up my keyboard to my computer for Midi use

[Taylor Lucas]

I've got an old yamaha keyboard. (Yamaha PSR 172). We've been using it for strings over our songs, but I would just mic it being lazy lol. It has a midi output and input. So today I bought some midi cables hoping to start recording strings a more proper way. I use a Presonus Firepod as an interface, which has a midi input and output. So I didn't have to bother buying one of those usb midi interfaces.

I use Adobe Audition and I'm having trouble getting Audition to recognize it. I'm not entirely sure where to start, I made a midi track, went into the sequencer, I'm using edirol orchestral as my vst plugin. I selected the midi input channel as the midi in on my firepod. But I'm not getting anything. I'm totally new to midi stuff so I'm pretty lost haha, I haven't strayed too far from traditional micing everything I record. So this is definitely a new field. Need guidance!

 

[gecko zzed]

I've got an old yamaha keyboard. (Yamaha PSR 172). We've been using it for strings over our songs, but I would just mic it being lazy lol. It has a midi output and input. So today I bought some midi cables hoping to start recording strings a more proper way. I use a Presonus Firepod as an interface, which has a midi input and output. So I didn't have to bother buying one of those usb midi interfaces.

I use Adobe Audition and I'm having trouble getting Audition to recognize it. I'm not entirely sure where to start, I made a midi track, went into the sequencer, I'm using edirol orchestral as my vst plugin. I selected the midi input channel as the midi in on my firepod. But I'm not getting anything. I'm totally new to midi stuff so I'm pretty lost haha, I haven't strayed too far from traditional micing everything I record. So this is definitely a new field. Need guidance!

Is there anything in Audition to tell whether you are getting a MIDI signal?

Audio programs operate differently, though in the end they do the same sorts of things. For example, in Reaper, you need to arm a track for recording and then turn on its monitoring before you hear anything. This may be the case with Audition (which I'm not familiar with). You've already done the things that are necessary to start off with . . . creating a MIDI track, selecting the Firepod as the input device, inserting your VSTi.

Have you tried recording (even if you can't hear anyting) to see whether you get a track with midi notes in it?

Have you tried playing this back out through the Firepod and into your keyboard?

 

[Taylor Lucas]

Now that you mentioned it, yes, it picks up the notes when I record. Then it plays back through my speakers and my keyboard. It doesn't apply the vst plugin though. And I can't hear it playing back through my speakers live (with the plugin) while I record.