Audacity doesn't see Yamaha MM6

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Audacity doesn't see Yamaha MM6

Post by hnash53 » Mon May 30, 2011 7:04 pm

I have two synths... a Roland SH-201 and a Yamaha MM6.

Audacity "sees" the Roland and records whatever I play just great... just like it's supposed to.

However, it DOES NOT detect, sense, or find my Yamaha MM6 synth at all. I've reinstalled the USB/MIDI drivers, restarted both the computer and the synth, checked settings in the synth. I know that the USB works in the Yamaha because I've connected it to other programs and they "see" it and communicate with it.

Can you make any suggestions on how I can get Audacity to recognize my Yamaha MM6?

I am running Audacity 1.2.6 . My "last ditch" effort was to try the beta version 1.3.13 but none of the "bug fixes" addressed my issue.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

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Re: Audacity doesn't see Yamaha MM6

Post by steve » Mon May 30, 2011 8:15 pm

The USB connection on the Yamaha MM6 transfers MIDI data not audio data.
MIDI is not audio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_In ... _Interface

Audacity can record audio but cannot currently record MIDI data.
To record audio (sound) from your MM6 in Audacity you should connect the Left/Right audio outputs of the MM6 to a "Line level" input of a computer sound card, then set Audacity to record from the line level input of the sound card.
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