On 6/23/2015 10:14 AM, 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. > midi is the electronic equivalent of sheet music, or the song roll on a player piano. its just codes for notes and timings, its not the audio. do note, if this is a stage grade electric piano, using big phone plugs, the audio level out is not quite the same as consumer line level that a computer input would want to record, you'll likely have to crank the recording level way up, increasing the noise floor of the recordings. the cure for this is something called a 'DI box' (Direct Input), or using an amplifier or mixer that has a consumer line (1V P-P) output. an alternative might be to use the headphone output of the synth, with it set to moderately loud volume levels (say, 6-7 on a 0-10 scale) -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz