cant recored with my keyboard organ

[fabricio7leibo]

hey,
i have windows xp , i am very fresh with the "recording stuff"...
i own a General music keyboard , cd 10.
i bought a usb midi cable.
i pluged the midi in and midi out to the keyboard and nothing seems to work.
i have no idea what to do , the midi cable came with no disk.
please if some one knows how to work that thing , il be thankfull.

thanks all !.

[kozikowski]

Can you hear the keyboard with built-in speakers or headphones?

You want to record the music you make on your Windows laptop (stop me anywhere)?

Your keyboard description doesn't Google.

Many keyboard/organs have a midi connection. It's not Sound. Midi is machine control where you can press a key on your computer and the keyboard makes music or the other way around. To get sound from the keyboard to the computer, you have to run audio cables between them.

Again, I can't find your keyboard, but I bought a headphone adapter to plug into the headphone connection of my keyboard and has standard audio connections on the other. If you have a normal Windows laptop, you have no stereo sound connections, but you can fake that by adding a USB device such as the UCA202. You would plug it all together like this. My sound mixer would become your keyboard.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ ... Lenovo.jpg

This is from my Yamaha keyboard.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/piano2.wav
http://www.kozco.com/tech/organfinale.mp3

Let us know if you need more detail.

Koz

[fabricio7leibo]

Hey,
first , i have a Personal computer.
i want to record the keyboard trough the PC.

i have that keyboard: general music , cd 10
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=pt ... 0,s:0,i:69

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=pt ... 3,s:0,i:78

[two pictures above].

There is another device that i need to that recording thing?

[steve]

MIDI is not audio.

To record the sound (audio) of the keyboard in Audacity you will need to either connect an audio output from the keyboard to your computer sound card, or use a microphone to record the sound from your keyboard.

[audino]

Hey,
first , i have a Personal computer.
i want to record the keyboard trough the PC
There is another device that i need to that recording thing?

The keyboard's exact made and model is: "Gem CD 10".
I've attached a screenshot from its manual.
As you can see you have 2 jack slots "Nr.4", from there you connect to the device that kozikowski suggested to you or similar device depending on your country availability or your willing to dig around the web.
Then you connect the device to your computer.
Alternatively you could play around with a HI-FI, just be sure it got RCA line-in and line-out so you can connect and record to your computer.

[kozikowski]

Cool. You don't have to mess with the headphone adapters. Your keyboard has connections to do this built-in.

If you have a full-on PC with all three sound connections, you should be able to connect the keyboard to the soundcard directly.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ ... Final2.jpg
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/wind ... rding.html

Koz

[fabricio7leibo]

can i connect the usb midi cable to the soundcard?
there is no usb jack on the soundcard
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ ... Final2.jpg

please ignore my ignorence in that meterial. ^^

[steve]

can i connect the usb midi cable to the soundcard?

No you can't. There is no USB audio input.

What's confusing me is that the image shown in the CD10 manual (as in the post by audino) does not have a USB connection.
It has two audio output connections (marked "4" in the picture). You need a lead to connect those two outputs to the "line input" of your sound card (as described by Koz).

[fabricio7leibo]

i have no idea what that "lead" means . like i sayd before man , im very new with this.

if someone could tell me what i need to download , buy ,use that would be nice .

[steve]

If the back of your keyboard is as shown in the picture, and your computer sound card is as shown in the picture from Koz, then you need a "stereo audio cable" with "two 6mm mono jack plugs" on one end and "one 3.5mm stereo jack plug" on the other end.