midi keyboard problems

[Plastic Man]

i bought a midi keyboard a while ago, and today i bought cakewalk music creator 2002, i have the keyboard set up properly to the computer, but for some reason it isnt showing up in cakewalk...can anyone help??? :( :( :(

[danxd]

Need more data.....but let me suggest a couple of things to check...

Check your clock set up on the midi keyboard. Make sure it is receiving clock.

Verify the MIDI set up in the Control Panel/Multimedia. Sometimes only the on-board synth is set up. You need to verify the MPU-401 is activated.

Check Cakewalk settings. It is has been awhile since I used Cakewalk, but if memory serves...no instrument is chosen at setup. You need to choose the instrument for each channel.

Describe your system hardware and sestup. What O/S are you using? What type of keyboard is it? What is you setup in Cakewalk?

you can email me at dca@cpl.net

DAN

[Plastic Man]

ok, thanks for those tips, when i get home ill check that stuff out. its a pretty crappy system, running like crap lately, but its windows 98, 400 mhz processor, some kind of sb64 (or something like that) sound card (made by Creative). the keyboard is a yamaha psr 170 midi keyboard...and heres one thing, i noticed that when i got it hooked up to the computer, there was a little tray icon on the taskbar, and everytime i hit a key on the keyboard, the icon (which looks like a keyboard) lit up, so that tells me that the thing is obvously hooked up the the computer properly.

and right now the cakewalk program seems really complicating, i mean i'm definatly no newbie to computers, but theres SOOO much crap in that program (for the better i guess), and this is the first time ive done any of this. so yeah, when i get home ill check the system properties and stuff for more detail, do you have icq? thanks again for your help.

[Plastic Man]

thanks a lot for the help, i finally got it to work!!

[Plastic Man]

it was working fine, but hen all of a sudden everything turned into piano...i had 3 tracks, 2 piano and 1 drums, and it was working ok, but then i dont know what happened and all of a sudden the drum track turned into piano..wtf???

[SilentlyFallingFish]

Cakewalk seems to like setting back my synth to 'Keyboard Channel Solo Mode' on my Alesis qs6 which triggers all the sounds in all tracks when I attempt to record. Check to see if your keyboard has a global midi setting that can set midi mode to individual tracks/channels. Really, this stuff shouldn't be this complicated. I'm new to this stuff too (midi, not computers), so don't feel so bad.

On an interesting note, the sample music in my version of Cakewalk was created by some guy named Igor Koroshev. Good stuff.

[Plastic Man]

i found out how to make it work now, thanks for the help...only problem NOW (lol) is that i cant find out how to export to mp3 or wave or whatever.

[raiched]

Piece of cake:thumbs:

Select solo on the tracks you want to mix to wave.
Check that your pans are set full left right and that your volumns are set correctly because what ever automation you have for those 2 tracks ( or how ever many tracks your mixing) will be recorded. This includes effects, pans, aux, fades ect. You can do multiple tracks to one wave and it will keep the pans you have set for each track.
Then if I remmber correctly ( I use sonar now) tools/mixdown audio/ then select what format you want to mix it down to.
I know sonar has support for mp3s but I'm not sure what version you have. It will do wave though. If you need a wave to mp3 converter email me of line or look for all the free command line ones. The Lame encoder is the best. frouhouser whatever is next.

Hope this helps,

Daniel Raiche