A few days ago I unpacked my Pianos g200 from Fame. Now I want to connect this with my laptop to record chords in a music program.
But the piano has only one midi out connector and the cables you can buy are all there with Midi in and Midi out on USB!
If I only want to play sounds on the pc, would it go with only one connection?
Ps: Piano is a bit older!
would be great if someone knows more accurate!
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I'm definitely not "off the shelf"…
I tried it many years ago with a Yamaha beginner keyboard and MIDI connection to the PC. However, I did not come very far "handicraft"…
Only with the technology I know myself a little bit.
Is this piano, or is this a more recent version:
https://www.musicstore.de/de_DE/EUR/Fame-Grand-200-Digitalpiano/art-EPI0000850-000
According to the technical description this has Midi-Out and Midi-In!
So please check again… If I found the right instrument.
Now about Midi:
The midi signals always run in one direction only. And you can connect several midi devices in a row like chain links (Midi-Out => Midi-In).
If this piano only has a Midi Out connector, you can only send data to an external Midi device (PC, synthesizer, other keyboard, …).
So you can import your music into this sequencer program and continue editing there. The midi-out plug of the USB adapter will be left unused.
To play then must be resorted to the sound hardware of the notebook.
Or you use a high-quality USB sound card. For example, Build the company Creative pretty good external sound cards.
https://de.creative.com/p/sound-cards
These are far superior to the notebook sound hardware!
So you can then go to external active speakers, or via TOSLink (fiber optic) to a modern music system. But also high-quality headphones can be used.
The signal quality is very high quality.
For the "professional" musician, there are also manufacturers who deliver significantly higher quality sound hardware. Only this is also "professional" expensive.
Many Thanks! The piano of mine is different but with the information about the Midi connection I can definitely start something!
I just want to play the chords on the pc with my piano and work on them instead of the other way round.
So it would be basically no problem to buy a plug with Midi in / out to USB and only occupy a plug?
I summarize again. You need a MIDI interface. Like this one. https://www.thomann.de/...sb_1x1.htm
or just an audio interface like the. https://www.thomann.de/...22_mk2.htm
Which has a MIDI input and output.
Basically, an audio interface of this type is recommended because otherwise the latency is too big and you press a key on the keyboard and half a second later, the sound comes.
As the previous speaker already wrote, only note values are transferred. NO SOUND! You then have to search for the program you can then play the instruments with a MIDI keyboard.
You only need to use a jack in or out or both. It does not matter.
