Douglas Brett

I have managed to work out what it is - the GO:KEYS is "partially Multitimbral" - i.e. you can only pick one voice from each category - One Piano, Organ, Brass, Drum (One set) etc. So I can't have a Grand Piano, and an Electric Piano for example. Shouid be enough. 

Thanks for your help Guys,

10 hours ago, RBH said:

I read the specs for the Roland Go : Keys.  I'm not completely sure that it is a true multitimbral keyboard. It's says it utilizes 8 voices in Loop mix and 8 voices for keyboard and it saves in Midi file format 0 . Which  is essentially all channels on a single track.  True multi-timbral keyboards typically use 16 discreet MIDI channels across at least 16 tracks and those tracks are assignable to which ever channel you wish. There may be way to get it to work for multichannel input - but I didn't see much for a manual.

That would explain things a little. It will just have to be a case of actually recording a track separately. In practice, I would only want to add Piano, drums, and bass to Electric and Acoustic guitar, and some of that could be done within Cakewalk anyway. 

Hi,

I have a Roland Go:Keys  keyboard, and I want to experiment with using Cakewalk with it, via MIDI. Ideally, what I want to do is add multiple MIDI tracks - One voice per track. Of course, when I go to start on Track 2, with a different voice, the first track is using this voice.

I have tried making it so that each track has a different Channel, but it still changes the voice on all tracks. 

Is it actually possible ? I believe the Keyboard is Multi-Timbral, so it should in theory work. Any pointers ?

14 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

Plus, you didn't mention what (if any) audio interface you're using. If you're going to go deep into computer recording, an interface is almost essential. If you don't have one and are considering one, check out those that have MIDI ports. That way you won't have to deal with funky USB drivers or Microsoft updates screwing  up a good driver.

Thanks all for the information. 

As regards audio interface, I use a Behringer UMC22, which only has Mic and Instrument inputs. I guess I can always upgrade at some stage !

Hi,

I am mainly a guitar player, but have dabbled with Keyboards over the years. I am also a relative Beginner to DAWs, although did use Cubase a few years ago, and no stranger to using Multitrack recording (I have an old Boss 8-Track that has seen better days). I was thinking of getting a MIDI controller, but I was wondering about buying a secondhand Standalone keyboard, specifically a Yamaha PSR275, 

I had something similar a few years ago, but despite being able to connect to a PC, I never explored the MIDI side of things properly, and just wondered whether I could successfully use this as a Controller ? I've downloaded the Manual for it, and as it uses the standard 5-pin (??) MIDI sockets, but Yamaha do (or did) have a suitable converter cable, and there appears to be no shortage of alternative cables.