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MIDI question - trying to use a Yamaha S90ES as a MIDI controller I'm new to using MIDI, but am hoping to use my Yamaha S90ES keyboard as a midi controller over USB and into Sonar 7 Producer. Can anyone tell me if this is doable? So far, I've only been able to get direct audio signal from the keyboard, and not midi data into Sonar. In other words, the USB connection seems to act like an audio interface instead of a MIDI interface, and I'm not able to play and record soft synth plugins to tracks using the keyboard. To use it that way, the Yamaha would have to provide MIDI drivers. If not, it won't work through USB. Instead, you should still be able to use it via MIDI ports if it provides them and if you have them on your computer interface.
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I downloaded and installed the MIDI-USB driver from the Yamaha Pro Audio website. It's version 3.0.4 for Windows 7/Vista and version 2.2.4 for Windows XP/2000. I understand the USB out of the Yamaha can be used either as an audio connection or as a MIDI connection, so it has to be physically configured to MIDI over USB, which I did. Tickertape Yes, it does transmit audio signal. I don't know about what it's actually supposed to do or not supposed to do, but I have it transmitting audio over USB at this very moment.
If I change to a different voice on the keyboard, it shows up through the computer, back out through the audio interface and on to the speakers. What it's NOT doing right now is responding to soft synths, and I'm sure it's because I don't have something configured right somewhere. Let us assume that the is not wrong when it says: 'Using a USB cable MIDI messages can be transferred between the sequencer software and S90 ES using the USB cable. However, audio data cannot be transmitted or received via USB on the S90 ES.' Then how does the audio signal get to the speakers?
Most likely you are sending MIDI via USB to Sonar that is then sending MIDI via USB back to the keyboard (triggering keyboard voices), which in turn is sending audio via an audio cable somewhere (to a Sonar audio track echoed out to your sound card, looped back through your sound card mixer (or via a real-time monitoring feature) to your sound card output, direct to your speakers). Is there an audio cable connected to your keyboard at all? If there is not an audio cable connected to your keyboard, that suggests that you are controlling another source of audio (a softsynth in Sonar or freestanding in your computer, a synthesizer built in to your sound card etc.), and that your keyboard is changing patches in that remote synth when you change the voice on your keyboard. You will need to spend more time describing your setup, how things are connected, what programs are open, what tracks are showing what is the input and output of each track etc. In order to ask a responsible question and get a responsive answer.
So far my speculation has more words and has taken more time to thoughtfully frame than your question. In my experience, by the time I have collected the information needed and organized it to form a clear question for the forum, I have already found the answer most of the time. No, there is no audio cable connected to the keyboard.
Only a power cord and the USB cable connected from the 'USB TO HOST' plug to one of the several USB connections on the computer. More detail about my setup: Yamaha S90ES connected via USB to the audio computer, which is running Windows XP Home Edition, SP 2. Running Sonar 7 Producer. In the Sonar/Options/Midi Devices window, the input selected is 'Yamaha S90ES-1' and the output selected in the same window is also 'Yamaha S90ES-1' along with 'Microsoft GS Wavetable SW.'
In the Sonar/Options/Instruments window, the Microsoft GS Wavetable SW is selected and assigned to the instrument. In the Sonar/Options/Controller/Surfaces window, there are no controller surfaces listed or selected. The S90ES keyboard has the following configuration: Utility/MIDI/OTHER/MIDI IN/OUT=USB The output monitoring chain from the computer is a USB to M-Audio Transit, to TOSLINK optical to a Lavry DA10 D/A converter to powered monitors. I didn't include all the I/O settings for the Sonar MIDI and soft sync tracks, but I'd be happy to if it would help. Please let me know. MurMan tickertape I didn't include all the I/O settings for the Sonar MIDI and soft sync tracks, but I'd be happy to if it would help.
Please let me know. These are the settings that would show what's going on. But it sounds like you've taken care of your original problem and you've now got the S90ES sending MIDI to a soft synth. In this configuration, there's only MIDI going over the USB cable, no audio.
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Still have audio over the USB cable.or, it might actually be a MIDI signal coming back through from the computer to the keyboard and triggering the keyboard's resident voices, as was suggested earlier in the thread. Either way, it's the keyboard's voices coming through the computer's speakers.not Sonar's soft sync voices. Here are the current settings I have on the soft sync track and on the MIDI track. Soft Synth track settings: IN = Stereo M-Audio USB ASIO Line In 1 Transit USB Output = M-Audio USB ASIO. MIDI track settings: Input: Yamaha MIDI port 1 Output: Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth Channel: MIDI channel 1 Bank: O-General MIDI Patch: none.
MIDI track settings: Input: Yamaha MIDI port 1 Output: Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth Channel: MIDI channel 1 Bank: O-General MIDI Patch: none My guess is that what you are hearing is the Microsoft GS Wavetable S oftW are Synth, not your keyboard voices. If I am correct, then you have achieved what you want, but probably not with the softsynth you want to use. What do you want to use? Check the Sonar midi track for midi events.
Look at it under piano roll view or event list view if you are not sure. If you are recording midi to the midi track then you are using your keyboard as a midi controller. You then need to decide what synth you want the Sonar midi track to control. In Sonar, it is the track,not the keyboard/controller that 'plays' the synth; the keyboard/controller controls (records data only to) the Sonar midi track. The output of the midi track has to be set to the synth that you want to play in response to the Sonar midi track.
The input of that synth has to be the Sonar midi track that you want to play/control the synth. The midi channels on both must match (or you can use none=omni=all).
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The softsynth has to output to a Sonar audio track (the audio track has to input the synth output) and the Sonar audio track has to ultimately be routed (usually through your main outs) to the USB audio interface output. Check the pdf manual & read: Tutorial 4 – Playing and recording software instruments. MurMan slartabartfast My guess is that what you are hearing is the Microsoft GS Wavetable S oftW are Synth, not your keyboard voices. Tickertape, the Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth is a horrible synth.
You should disable it in the MIDI options so it never gets selected again. Yes!I think you and Slartabartfast are on to something! I went to Sonar/Options/MIDI devices and de-selected the Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth, as you suggested. Now there's no audio being output to the audio interface (and speakers), even though I still have VU level on the MIDI track meter. And switching the MIDI track to the piano roll view, I can see it's recording midi events. So, ultimately what I'm trying to do is use a soft synth plugin - specifically, the EastWest Orchestra suite.
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I think I must be just one or two settings away from having the midi events channeled through that soft synth. Earlier, before hooking up the Yamaha, I was able to bring up Sonar's piano roll window and play the EastWest suite samples by mouse-clicking the piano keys, so at least I know the plugins are there and loaded correctly.