Hi, new user here. Windows 10, Audacity version 2.3.3. I am trying to record a Yamaha P80 piano out of its midi ports, through a mio midi/USB converter, into the USB port of a Lenovo laptop. I am running the piano’s 1/4" phono outputs into a regular amplifier so I can hear it. I can see the recording taking place visually in Audacity, but on playback through the laptop speakers, the music is garbled, sounds like people talking. Other music such as mp3’s play back fine through the laptop speakers.
PLEASE NOTE: the same result happens when I connect using the “RCA” stereo outputs on the piano (the red and white ones) into the laptop’s headphone mini plug headphone jack, which I assume is also an input, using a 2-into-1 adapter. Please have patience with this newbie, it’s probably something obvious but I can’t figure out what I am doing wrong.
Thanks in advance for the help. Dan D
through a mio midi/USB converter, into the USB port of a Lenovo laptop.
That won’t work. Audacity is not a MIDI application.
PLEASE NOTE: the same result happens when I connect using the “RCA” stereo outputs on the piano (the red and white ones) into the laptop’s headphone mini plug headphone jack, which I assume is also an input, using a 2-into-1 adapter.
Same results? Sounds like people talking?
If you have a single combo microphone-input/headphone-output jack, you need a 4-conductor [u]TRRS[/u] plug/adapter to make the microphone-input connection. But, a microphone input is a poor match for a line level signal. A line level (or headphone level) signal is about 100 to 1000 times stronger than a microphone signal. Plus the mic input is mono. So although it can “work” you can’t expect good quality.
For best results you need a USB audio interface with line inputs. The Berhinger UCA202 is popular and inexpensive or there are higher-end interfaces. (The UCA202 doesn’t have recording level controls.)
Yes, same result either way. I can hear the piano notes during playback but they are very distorted, garbled. Is it possible there’s some input setting I’m missing? Thanks for your reply.
I have ordered the Behringer UC202 interface, will see how it goes with that. You are right, I am probably not getting enough input signal. Thanks for your advice. Dan D