Midi problems with LynxOne for recording drums.

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Hello, I've been trying to figure out the audio recording portion of Cakewalk, slowly getting there. I recently hooked up my Yamaha P90 digital piano to use as a midi controller for programming some drums. It's midi outs are plugged to the ins of my LynxOne soundcard and vice versa.

Here is the problem, when I play a note, the midi message gets to Sonar, if recorded I can see the note in the piano roll. But no sound in the monitors. I select LynxOne midi in as the input and LynxOne midi out as the output.

If I change the output to the regular soundcard in my PC (soundMAX) I can hear the notes played coming out of the PC speakers. I don't have any soundbank for midi installed on the PC, I was hoping on trying to record drums with the cheap general midi sounds just to get a hold of it. But I can't seem to use my LynxOne for that application, and the only sound I hear with soundMAX soundcard are not coming from the monitors, thus, the mix.

I'm very new at this, so I hope someone can help me.
Thanks,
Francis.
 
I suspect your Yamaha P90 has audio cables as well as midi. I would suggest using both. The audio cables will allow you to hear the sound, while you record the midi data.
 
Well that would have worked if I was planning on recording a piano sound or such, but the P90 doesn't have drum sounds. Also, even when the midi notes are in the track, when I playback, I still don't hear anything.

Francis.
 
Soulgolem said:
Well that would have worked if I was planning on recording a piano sound or such, but the P90 doesn't have drum sounds. Also, even when the midi notes are in the track, when I playback, I still don't hear anything.

Francis.
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Well where do you expect the midi to get sound from?? :confused:

Midi is nothing more than data. It is a set of instructions. In order for it to generate sound, the data has to be sent to a device that can produce sound. That can either be an external device (such as a keyboard), an internal device (such as a sound card - which btw is why it works with your SoundMax), or - and pay attention here - a software synthesizer (DXi or VSTi).

What version of Sonar are you using? Depending on the version you have, you should be able to use one of the DXi's supplied with the program to generate your sounds. You can start with the Edirol VSC which has some (cheesy :) ) drums sounds. Or, if you have Sonar 3, you can use the VSampler to play sound fonts.

Check the online help manual for DXi, it is all pretty much explained there.
 
Oh, btw, if you plan on using DXi's in realtime - that is, using them to generate sounds while you play along with the track - you are going to need to have pretty good latency. Somewhere around 5 ms or so will work great.
 
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