Piano keyboard connect to computer pro#
Piano keyboard connect to computer software#

This is a great way to record hardware bevause you get the audio right away but you have a record of what you played and you can alter it later and re record withoit having to play it again.Īctually I think you can combine the benefits here though if you're in the studio. Some interfaces can pass through MIDI so you can control a hardware synth with your keyboard while still sending the keystrokes to your computer. This ends up being functionally the same as Numéro DoS but it might be better or worse for you. Numéro tres - use a MIDI cable to plug your keyboard into your interface, and power the keyboard from the wall. Also if you go 'shit I just need a solid electric piano sound' you're in for a lot of googling and searching and trying different ones out whereas if you could use your pianos sounds then a solid Rhodes sound is only a button press away and it's already been processed and made beautiful.

Piano keyboard connect to computer pro#

PRO - you can make any sound and tweak it infinitelyĬON - sucks for gigging because you always need a laptop and interface to process the sound. You also have fill control over the sound and are only limited by what soft synths you have. A sort of hybrid between actually playing the part and drawing it in. You can record MIDI and fix it after the fact. You can play virtual instruments and synths.

Piano keyboard connect to computer software#

This way you can play any sounds you get from the internet, and software synths. Numéro DoS - use the USB cable on your keyboard and plug it into your computer.

You're also limited to the sounds that come with your keyboard and can't play samples you made, samples from the internet or software synths. You just bought a nice keyboard thats supposed to sound good, so it's nice to be able to use those instead of either spending a lot of money on similar quality virtual instruments (which will only run right on a powerful computer) or deal with the iffy quality of free virtual instruments.ĬON - if you hit a note wrong or you give a sub par performance then you can't fix it. PRO- You can use the (hopefully) high quality sounds that are hard wired into your keyboard. Now you can record it just like it's a guitar - except it's in stereo so you have two cables instead of one. Adjust the two inputs so they're the same volume. Use TRS cable to connect the audio outputs of your keyboard to your interface. There are three ways to get stuff you played on your keyboard into your DAW.