Audacity Forum

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.

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.