How to record keybords in stereo?

[Espadrilles]

I own a Yamaha P-80 keyboard and I would like to record it in stereo (the lower keys in the left speaker and the higher keys in the right speaker). It seems like my stereo output (from the keyboard) does not do that (...and I thought it would). How can I achieve that? I was thinking, as a last resort, trying to do this with my mixer's eq but I don't think it would give me the result I need, can anyone help me? Does it has anything to do with MIDI?

 

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Spanish Dancer:

You can certainly record in stereo; however, I don't think you can separate the higher end of the keyboard from the lower end of the keyboard.

However, if you are talented, you can set down the rhythm, and record the upper keys on one track, then overdub the low end of the keyboard. When you set up your mix, you can pan a bit left/right on the tracks and probably get what you're after.

The only other thing I can think of is that you buy a keyboard that splits at the middle C and send upper and lower as you described.


Keep twiddling the dials,

Green Hornet
Merry Christmas

 

[brzilian]

Green Hornet has some good ideas to do what you want, but it will be more work than actually having the preset sound set up that way.

My Roland XP-30 has the Session Expansion Board piano sounds. The guys at Roland acutally sampled and edited the sound to do what you are talking about.

 

[Espadrilles]

...and what about MIDI, I new to the midi world but would it be possible with any kind of software??? (by the way, thanks!!!)

 

[mikeh]

Most software sequencers (Cakewalk as an example) which accept MIDI data, do allow you to write specific commands which could allow you to seperate the lower keys (say below middle C) from the higher keys.

So as an example, you would record your performance on a single MIDI track, then split the low keys to a seperate track. Then you can pan the low keys left and the high key right.

However, although I have no hands on experiance with your Yamaha, most modern keyboards (in particular if they can play multiple voices) do allow you to assign key splits and panning to the steroe outputs. If you say you can't I certainly believe you, but I do find it surprising.