record the actual sound of my keyboard?

the keys wrote:
If i plug it into the guitar input on my interface it doesnt sound clean, so i bought an adapter to plug it into the mic input but it still sounds fuzzy.

then you probably need to turn down the volume on the keyboard, those are the only two ways.

The keyboard has midi ins and outs

http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#midinotaudio

(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

Recording live audio (as in the audio that comes off your amp) means getting some mics and an audio interface that can handle them. Since you want to record in stereo, you'll need two mics and an interface that can handle recording from two mics at once. I use a Line 6 TonePort UX2, which is now called the Line 6 POD Studio UX2:

http://line6.com/podstudioux2/

There are other options. Avid/M-Audio, for instance, makes the MoblePre:

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MobilePre.html

Both of these can handle two XLR mics and provide phantom power for them, which lets you use condenser mics that require phantom power. Either one would make a nice audio interface for those times when you want to record the sound you hear in the room.

James

If you want to use your keyboard as a MIDI controller, you'll need a MIDI interface (and probably a few MIDI cables):

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.family&ID=midiinterfaces

Using your keyboard as a MIDI controller won't capture the sound of your keyboard, though. It just uses your keyboard to generate MIDI events, like "note on" and "note off." Those events can then be used to drive any MIDI sound (such as the built-in sounds in GarageBand).

Recording live audio (as in the audio that comes off your amp) means getting some mics and an audio interface that can handle them. Since you want to record in stereo, you'll need two mics and an interface that can handle recording from two mics at once.

Why would you route a keyboard sound through an amp?? The easiest way (and the thing to start with) is just plugging the keyboard's line out or headphones out into the computer's line-in. That's free and gives you good results in most cases.

I was assuming the amp itself was part of the sound (as with the Leslie speaker used by many Hammond organ players). If the amp isn't part of the sound, or is simulated in software, which seems to be the case here, then yeah, you're right: go direct. But the poster said the sound he gets going direct isn't satisfactory, which leans toward the use of a better audio interface and/or preamp of some sort.

Here's the keyboard in question:

http://www.hammondorganco.com/readmoreXK3c.htm

That says it has left and right line out (doesn't say what sort of connector, unfortunately), "MIDI In/In2/Out" (by which I can only assume they mean in/out/through?), and headphone out.

I assume those L/R outs are 1/4", though they could be XLR or RCA or, who knows what else. If hooking those up to the Mac via adapters and such doesn't yield a decent sound (ditto for doing the same with the headphone out) then I'd recommend a decent USB audio interface.

In either case, seeing as this thing could be a really nice MIDI controller (though why they didn't add a USB interface is a mystery to me), I'd say it's totally worth the cost of a MIDI interface to hook this thing up and use it as a controller for other software instruments.

Nice keys buy the way...love B3's...


What interface do you have the keys?

I'm curious about this too: what interface are you running?

How can I make the keyboard sounds when I am writing?

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