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#How to record on acid music studio 10 how to

It has four mono channels for input, so you can connect four microphones, or two stereo synths, simultaneously. The audio interface I chose was the Alesis io4.

The upside was that it could sit between my computer and my synths and give me more granular control over recording them too. When I got a microphone that required phantom power (that is, electricity to be fed up its cable), I needed to get an interface to sit between the computer and the microphone. Firstly, it gave me relatively limited control and information about the volumes going into the PC, and secondly it only enabled me to record one instrument at a time, and involved a lot of plugging and unplugging to switch keyboards. This product appears to be discontinued now, but cheap MIDI to USB cables are available.įor the audio, I started off by just recording into the mic input on my PC, but that was limited in a couple of ways. You can cut bits and edit the recordings afterwards, but you're capturing sounds not data.įor the MIDI connection, I used the Voyetra USB Music Studio Kit, which includes a cable to connect MIDI to USB.

Audio: Which means you're recording the sounds the keyboard makes.

You can play back the recording using the same orĭifferent physical or virtual instruments. You can edit this later, nudging the timing and pitch of notes as necessary.

MIDI: Which means you're using the keyboard to send and receive musical note information.

There are two different approaches to this: The first challenge was to get everything connected up, or at least to connect the keyboards to the computer. It's easy to get started with home recording, as I hope this article will show!Ĭonnecting up instruments using the Alesis io4 Over the last few months, I've been using them separately and together to record new music on my Windows-based computer, so I thought I'd share my experiences. I also have a Yahama mini keyboard from the 80s, a Yamaha home keyboard from the 90s, and a Casio home keyboard from the 00s. I wrote previously about how I got a Novation Mininova synthesizer, which offers high quality sounds in a compact package. One of my current projects is to record the music I've been writing over the years on the piano and acoustic guitar, giving it a synth-led makeover along the way.

#How to record on acid music studio 10 how to

Discover how to start home recording synth music on your computer, using the Alesis io4 and Sony Acid Music Studio.