Yamaha mixer mg82 to garageband

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Yamaha mixer mg82 to garageband

Gday everyone

I have a Yamaha MG82cx mixer into which I plug electric drum kit, acoustic guitars, microphone and keyboard.

I would really like to be able to record by playing my instruments into the mixer and being able to record them one by one in garageband, then layer them over each other.

The mixer doesn't have a MIDI port, but it does have ports that say about it REC OUT and STEREO OUT (which i usually plug into a PA)

I was trying to plug in a headphone jack lead straight from stereo out into my macbook pro with no luck.

Any suggestions welcome!

Cheers!

MacBook Pro

Posted on Sep 23, 2013 10:57 PM

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Answer 1

isteveus

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Sep 24, 2013 7:24 AM in response to musicdude12345

First having a MIDI port has nothing with recording audio.

Now you should be able to plug either stereo out or record out into the macbook to record as long as your sending the input signal to the record out or main out.

Did you select built in input in Garageband > preferences > Audio Midi?

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Answer 2

Sep 24, 2013 5:52 PM in response to isteveus

Thanks for your answer.

I will have to buy some sort of new lead for the record out because it looks like a small headphone jack but wouldnt let me plug in my headphone jack lead.

I tried using stereo out and went into the preferences section on garageband but it detected 0 MIDI devices.

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Answer 3

isteveus

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Sep 24, 2013 7:21 PM in response to musicdude12345

MIDI is not audio it has nothing to do with analog signals. You need to pick Built-in input for the audio input. Record out is almost always dual RCA jacks you will need a stereo RCA to a stereo 1/8" cable.

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