On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:14:08AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:15:35 -0400 Lamar Owen wrote:
The USB MIDI port won't give you audio, just MIDI text.
That's what I thought. To this point, I've never done anything MIDI and I really don't know much about that; I just use my piano for the purpose of playing the piano.
What sort of sound card do you have?
description: Audio device product: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller vendor: Intel Corporation
I think I will try to do this with Audacity as Fred Smith suggested. If I record the speaking part first, I can then somehow play it back and record the piano track while listening to the voice track to get the timing right. What I'm doing doesn't really have a beat or rhythm like a song -- it's a dramatic reading, but some of the words have a note or chord to sound along with them so getting it coordinated will be the challenge.
Ah. You can also use Audacity to speed up or slow down a track by small amounts, without changing the pitch. This might allow you to make small adjustments in the speed of the voice recording to help make it fit in with the music the way you want.