It depends what need to do but i think you need an audio cable. Connect it from your headphone jack on your keyboard to your microphone port in the back of your pc and have it recognised by the pc as 'line in', then it will play through your pc and through whatever audio output you have, speakers/headphones etc. Drivers Usb Mass Storage Device Win98. Midi software is used when you want the computer to interpret the sound, so you play a c# and the software will record a c#, its good for writing music and using funky reverbs, delays etc but its not natural playing at all, its interpretation.

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The audio cable on the other hand will simply use your pc as a 'speaker' and allow you to record 1 to 1 what your hands are playing. If you want to record fluid actual movements (but no alteration) you want an audio cable, if you are looking to lay down/edit/manufacture a rhythym you want midi software.

Im not sure i explained myself well enough there so sorry if theres some confusion. I can't remember the name of the program I used, which is annoying, but what you're looking for is probably a VST player.

Then you can find a free VST plugin for a piano, and you'll be good to go. For the plugin, I specifically remember finding to be pretty decent (a link to the plugin is on that page, that's not the actual page for the plugin.think it's the second one down). There are any number of free players, so finding one shouldn't be too difficult. There are some linked on that page, but not sure which are any good. According to wikipedia, Audacity has some kind of VST capability, but I know that isn't what I used so I can't say how it works. Thanks for the replies.

To clarify my intentions. I was basically hoping to treat my MIDI keyboard as an electronic piano (without actually having an electronic piano) and play it through my laptop. Cody Chesnutt Landing On A Hundred Rar Download. I think I've made the rookie mistake of thinking 'it must be able to use this as a piano cause it sure looks like one'. Looking at Audacity, it talks a lot about being able to record audio, which is fine, but I can't make out if I will be able to hear what I'm recording as I play it.

I will look some more into VST players. Partical, your suggestion of using the audio cable. Is that dependant on the MIDI keyboard having internal sounds built-in that would then be 'amplified' by the laptop? Thanks for the replies.