Yamaha Keyboard Sound in Garageband

I've been trying to figure this out forever but could not find out i would love and appreciate it if someone could help me.

I want my yamaha keyboard sounds to be usable in garageband and record using the instruments on my yamaha keyboard rather then the garageband instruments

mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.11), yamaha psr-293

Posted on Jul 22, 2008 10:10 PM

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Jul 23, 2008 2:33 AM in response to Christoph Drösser

Okay, this is confusing me and bringing up some questions.
He asked this same question in another thread and HT gave him basically the same answer I did. You're talking, I think, about MIDI signals, yes?
Since GB does not send MIDI out, does that mean one can't record the MIDI instruments in the MIDI unit to GB thru the MIDI output? I know that MIDI is not audio. But I'm still not 100% clear on how it all works.
But using the line-out to line-in bypasses the whole MIDI thing, right?

Jul 23, 2008 6:58 AM in response to apple4music-Eric

As others have said, you can always record the audio out of your Yamaha into Garageband onto a real audio track, just as you'd record a guitar or mic, but you can't use your Yamaha sounds as software instrument sounds, with Garageband "playing" your Yamaha via MIDI.

More full featured music applications, like Apple's Logic would enable you to play your Yamaha like a software instrument (play synth, synth sends MIDI to computer, computer records MIDI, on playback computer sends MIDI back to synth, synth plays audio), but I doubt the hassle of setting it up would be worth it. The virtual instruments in the computer will likely sound better than the sounds that come with that particular Yamaha.

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