Quality Sounds Needed

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I'm not new at the keyboard but I am at recording. I have many of my own songs and also play most types of modern music. I want to get this music onto cd's just for my own use. The problem is the lack of sound quality.

I have a Yamaha Portable Grand going into Cakewalk Home Studio 2 which is loaded in my New this year) Toshiba Satelite Laptop. I also have Nero. I use the accompliment from keyboard for different types of music. When It's play back from the computer through the keboard and into external speakers or headsets the sounds are perfect, clear soft etc.. When I play it out of the Laptop to a cd the sound is extremely tinny and sounds terrible.

What part am I not getting. What do I need to do or do diferrently with out a huge cost. I heard I may need a plug in for the laptop.

Aprreciate any help

Ronplay
 
Hi, Could be many things. What type of sound card, quality of leads, I'm no expert here and someone correct me if im wrong but there may be an issue going from 24 bit recording on your system to 16 bit CD recording? Any number of things.

Soryy cant be much help
 
Thanks. I have heard a few times that you have to record into a laptop that has a quality plug in sound card other than what it came witth. I guess the key board is the synthisizer in this case but I don't know of any way to record onto a cd from that point. Do I need something other than Cakewalk or is it because of a cheap internal midi sound card that comes with the laptop that's the problem.

What would someone do to make a cd of their music if they had a MIDI (Yamaha Portable Grand) keyboard and a laptop. They are hooked up with MIDI cables. I'm willing to get what I need if it's not way to exspensive.
 
Does your laptop have firewire, or USB? If so, get a firewire audio interface like the Firebox from Presonus, for example. Based on your post, the first bottleneck that comes to mind is the soundcard you are currently using.

There are many firewire and USB sound cards to choose from. Presonus, Echo Audio, MOTU, and others make good ones that are not terribly expensive.
 
Thanks Sonic Albert. Do these cards plug into the USB ports in the laptop?
Thanks for your suggestion
 
If you have a PCI slot then the better (it's faster than firewire and usb):

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the PCI is usually at the side of the laptop for easier access.

you can save the firewire port for other stuffs too.


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Each of those manufacturers makes both USB and firewire audio interfaces. Just make sure you get as USB version if that is the only kind of port your computer has!

I prefer firewire for audio interfaces myself. After having owned both I find the real world results are that firewire is faster and more reliable than USB.
 
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