Hooking up your keyboard to a PC (Recording)

Hmm... Do you think I might be able to use the same cable to connect my guitar amp do the computer? They both have the same kind of headphone output, so it should work, shouldn't it?

http://www.tweakheadz.com/all_about_cables.htm

http://www.tweakheadz.com/setting_up...audio_card.htm

Read the entire article. You have to understand balanced and unbalanced cables or you might start cooking some of your stuff - oh, boy!! Nothing like fried I/O cards for breakfast with a side of smoke filled nostrils!!

Not quite to that extreme but you run the risk of killing your AD/DA converters forever!! Direct boxes are key. Why do you think they make soundcards and outboard recording interfaces?? If it was as simple as your idea - there would be no need for all of this equipment. It can be done from headphone jack on your keyboard to your mic jack on your computer but the sound will only be good for reference purposes!! BE VERY CAREFUL!!! make sure all of our volumes are down to 0 and bring the volumes up gradually.

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please help me out i have cubase and a motif xs8 and im having a hard setting it up. can someone please let me kno what cables i need and how to set it up thx!

Hey. OK, I've heard you other people talking a little about latency in this topic, but I'm curious to get some answers myself. As you prescribe, I plug the cable into the headphones on my keyboard and the line in on my computer.

So, now the headphones plug in the keyboard is taken - and when I use the headphones on my computer, I get a latency that it's just not possible for me to live with. Can this be changed? Or should I just record while listening to my amp instead of my headphones (which I very muich prefer)??

Yes. The signal you get out from the computer has been processed by your recording software, (called software playthrough) so there will be a significant lag unless you have a very powerful computer.

This makes sense, since the signal goes from your keyboard, to the computer and into softsynths and/or recording, then to the speakers/headset. So logically it would come out of the speakers later than into the recorder.

However, I've just encoutered a problem where the exact opposite occurs... There is barely any delay at all between pressing the key on the keyboard, and getting the sound out of my computers headset, but there is a delay between pressing the key, and recording the sound.

I.ex, I record a drum beat, together with a metronome. Then I record a keyboard riff while listening to the drum beat, and playing it pretty tight. But when I press play to listen, it's not tight at all, sometimes the keyboard even runs away off-beat, even though I played on-beat...

I'm getting slightly annoyed about that, and would really like some help solving it...

I've always had the recording delay, which I just have to manually correct, but I'm not sure why there's no output delay. What are your system specs?

If "system specs" = computer capacity, I have 3 GHz, 1024 MB RAM, Windows XP and a pretty full harddrive :P (14 GB left of 144 total). I have some sort of built-in soundcard, so I don't know the name/quality of it.

heyy i jus connected my keyboard to cubase about a day ago and my computer seems to have the same problem sargas has...isnt there some small equipment that can help with this problem??