I’m using Audacity, and I have to record a keyboard with an analogic table in the laptop. I connect the RCA wired to my laptop and the other end to the analogic table. When I put “start recording” it doesn’t record anything. I don’t know why don’t record and I search information to solve this problem, but I don’t find nothing.
What I have to record the mix of the analogic table to the laptop?
I don’t connect with MIDI, I want to record the mix of the analogic table ( http://www.thomann.de/gb/soundcraft_epm_6.htm ) in my laptop with the RCA wired.
The keyboard is connected to the output in stereo.
I don’t know that it plays vinil.
The “Soundcraft EPM6 Rack Mixer” would normally be called a “Mixer” or “Mixing Desk” or “Mixing Console”.
Does your laptop have a “Line in” connection? (many laptops have only a “mic input” which is not suitable for recording from a keyboard or a mixer).
Are you able to record the keyboard if you connect the “R, L/MONO OUTPUTS” from the keyboard directly to the “Line in” of your laptop?
I have to record the keyboard throught the mixer. I use the mixer because sometimes I’m the mixer of groups and I would like to record the music. In this occasion I would like to record my keyboard to do a mix.
My laptop is Toshiba Satellite C55-A-1NV
For the question of Steve:
Sorry for the confusion, in my laptop are two line outs the microphone and the audio.
Try connecting the RCA outputs to something else, such as an amplifier, your home stereo, or even your TV to make sure you are getting a signal out of the mixer’s RCA outputs.
Try plugging something else into the computer, such as a CD player, or the analog audio from a DVD or Blu-Ray player to see if you can record anything.
Make sure you have selected the proper “line in” or “external mic” to record from. See [u]this page[/u].
If your laptop only has microphone-in you CAN still record from the keyboard or mixer, but the quality will probably be unacceptable, and you’ll probably get mono. (Do NOT connect the keyboard or mixer to line-out or headphone-out on the computer… It must connect to an input.)
If you need to add a line-input to your laptop the [u]Behringer UCA202[/u] is usually the least expensive solution. (There are lots of higher-end USB audio interfaces, but avoid regular “USB soundcards”, because they are like laptops with only mic-in and headphone-out.)
P.S
Your keyboard has a USB connection for recording directly to a USB Flash drive or a USB hard drive. You can then plug the USB drive into a computer and copy the WAV/MP3 file, or edit it with Audacity, etc.
There is also a USB MIDI port for connection to a computer. But Audacity is NOT a MIDI application. If you want to record and/or edit MIDI, you’ll need something else.