
Otherwise, you’ll need an interface with MIDI and Audio to make the connection. Instead, if your keyboard has a USB-MIDI connection, you are set to go. This MIDI information can be used to play software instruments on your computer, but is not a recording of the sound. Many people confuse the difference between making a MIDI connection from their keyboard, and actually recording live sound.Ī MIDI interface will only transmit your performance data.

Let’s get one of the most common confusions out of the way. They’re ready to make music and share it with the world.īut what does that mean? Do you have all the pieces you’ll need to record the notes played on a keyboard over to your computer? Once again, this program only opens if the keyboard is current plugged in, if i press "Send All Note On", then it makes a loud noise on my keyboard.Your child is excited about the opportunity of transferring their music from a keyboard to the computer. The drivers also added a program called "Yamaha USB-MIDI Driver (WDM)" which when ran shows this:

In "Sound, video and game controllers" in Device Manager, i have "Piaggero", which i assume is the keyboard. What I want to do, is get Audacity to see the keyboard so i can record it in Audacity. The documentation and online guides state that this device should appear on my computer as a microphone, or as a keyboard. So i tried a different, shorter, USB cable, and this time it let me install the drivers. The device drivers would not install because it thought the keyboard was not connected.

So i went to the website and downloaded and installed them myself.

When i initially plugged in the keyboard, windows did not do its thing where it searches for the devices drivers. Well, it can and it cant detect it, i am a bit confused.
