midi patches

[Joejoe]

im a novice at midi..i have a yamaha psr-520 keyboard..
after recording midi data can i play back sounds that my keyboard doesn't have..i know general midi 128 patches..i have cakewalk pro audio 9..if i play a note can i choose a patch from a korg keyboard if i dont have it with software or drivers..i normally record digital audio from the keyboard with every other instrument wondering if midi can give me more of an advantage..appreciate the help..

 

[AlChuck]

if i play a note can i choose a patch from a korg keyboard if i dont have it with software or drivers...

Of course not. Could you be driving a Toyota Celica if it were a Isuzu Impulse?

Sorry to be so facetious, I'm in a foul mood today. Seriously, what are you asking here? Are you thinking that because Cakewalk has a big list of instrument definitions, you are getting the sounds of those instruments too? Those are merely custom settings -- patch names, bank names, and so forth -- for the listed devices, so that if you did have one it would be a snap to work with it.

The advantage with MIDI is that you record the data about your performance -- which notes you hit and how hard and when -- rather that the actual sound of the performance itself. Then it becomes very easy to manipulate the data -- change the pitches or velocities or lengths of individual notes, change which instrumemnt sound is used to play it, that sort of thing. Not very easy to do that with audio. It also makes it very easy to print out sheet music from the MIDI data.

What kind of sound card do you have? If you have a Sound Blaster Live, you have yourself a neat little sampler using Sound Fonts... your rig would be vastly more flexible than it is now with just the sounds on the Yamaha...