I can't hear plugin sounds on my keyboard

[Vittorio Foppiani]

I have this very annoying problem with audio. Basically, after having connected my keyboard to Cakewalk, I can only apply Cakewalk FX effects to the midi track and I hear them through the keyboard speakers, but if I try and apply the plugin sounds a new track is created where I can choose the plugin sound. I think this is normal, but what annoys me is that I only hear the plugin sound through the computer speakers. The result is two different audio tracks from one keyboard,  the keyboard sound coming from it and the plugin sound coming from the computer. I want to only hear the plugin sound on the keyboard. 

Hope you can help me 

Edited June 13, 2023 by Vittorio Foppiani

[gustabo]

I found a picture of the connections on the Casio, looks like you need a cable from the audio output of your computer audio device (?) to audio in (1/8” stereo) on the keyboard 

[gustabo]

You need to hook up the audio output of your keyboard to your computer to hear the sounds from your keyboard. MIDI is data, not audio.

[Vittorio Foppiani]

So do I need the cable with the round outputs in addition to the MIDI one I already have? 

I thought that cable would have been enough.

[gustabo]

24 minutes ago, Vittorio Foppiani said:

So do I need the cable with the round outputs in addition to the MIDI one I already have?

Either L & R audio outputs or headphone outputs, depends on what your keyboard has.

[Vittorio Foppiani]

Mine has L & R, is this cable ok for it?

[John Vere]

Those are Midi Cables. Midi is not audio it is only data. Watch these tutorials. 
https://youtu.be/Tce02wE_TPM

https://youtu.be/YJlI6U8Rqa0

This is the playlist for all the Cakewalk Tutorials 

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YqVth30eGsURWrKGeu-fFyg3ETjF-Ox

 

[Vittorio Foppiani]

But I already connected the midi usb cable to the computer and I can see my keyboard on Cakewalk, now I want to hear the plug-in audio on the keyboard.

This one

[rsinger]

What keyboard are you using?

[Vittorio Foppiani]

A Casio PX-S1100

[Byron Dickens]

23 hours ago, Vittorio Foppiani said:

I want to only hear the plugin sound on the keyboard. 

 

It doesn't work that way.

 

Watch John's tutorials.

Edited June 14, 2023 by Byron Dickens

[rsinger]

28 minutes ago, Vittorio Foppiani said:

A Casio PX-S1100

Do you have the audio output in CbB set to the PX-S1100? Do you have the input volume turned up on the keyboard?

[Base 57]

1 hour ago, rsinger said:

Do you have the audio output in CbB set to the PX-S1100? Do you have the input volume turned up on the keyboard?

That keyboard will not play back audio from the computer unless you are using the Bluetooth adapter. The USB computer port is MIDI only. That port is class compliant and should work without any added drivers.

So count me as another vote for watching John's tutorial.

[rsinger]

8 minutes ago, Base 57 said:

That keyboard will not play back audio from the computer unless you are using the Bluetooth adapter. The USB computer port is MIDI only. That port is class compliant and should work without any added drivers.

So count me as another vote for watching John's tutorial.

OK, the documentation isn't very clear on what the USB B port does. 

[Vittorio Foppiani]

2 hours ago, rsinger said:

Do you have the audio output in CbB set to the PX-S1100? Do you have the input volume turned up on the keyboard?

I'm missing what CbB is

[Base 57]

37 minutes ago, Vittorio Foppiani said:

I'm missing what CbB is

Cakewalk by Bandlab

[Vittorio Foppiani]

 

2 hours ago, rsinger said:

Do you have the audio output in CbB set to the PX-S1100? Do you have the input volume turned up on the keyboard?

Then yes

[Vittorio Foppiani]

Anyways, I have the L & R output on the keyboard, could you hint me which cable I should purchase?

[Lord Tim]

OK, I think we're going around in circles a little bit here. Let's get some clarity.

Is this all correct:

You have your keyboard connected to your computer. 

Inside Cakewalk by Bandlab (CbB) you can see your keyboard as a device.

When you record, you're recording a MIDI track, correct? It'll look like dots and dashes rather than an audio waveform.

With that MIDI track, the only thing you can hear is any Cakewalk instruments coming out of the computer speakers.

You are hearing your keyboard playing back the sound as well as those Cakewalk instruments.

 

Assuming this is all correct, you have the Output on your MIDI track set to a Cakewalk instrument (likely TTS-1) rather than your keyboard.

If you check in Preferences in the MIDI > Devices section, you should see your keyboard listed in both the Inputs and Outputs parts with ticks in their boxes.

If that's the case, if you open up the MIDI track you've recorded, you should see the Input (I) and the Output (O). Both of those things should be set to your keyboard, rather than Omni or anything else.

This should just get the sound to play through your keyboard.

 

The next hurdle is, did you want to record the sound of your keyboard into CbB?

If so, you'll need an audio cable connected into your audio interface to do that. If you're recording with onboard audio (eg: your computers built in soundcard, this won't give you very good results). I'd suggest in that case to use a VST virtual instrument, or buy an audio interface with proper connections.

 

Edited June 14, 2023 by Lord Tim

[Vittorio Foppiani]

I hear the keyboard normal sound, which I  normally hear when I use it without the connection, and at the same time I hear the sound of Cakewalk registering the keys I play in the keyboard of the vst.

Also, I don't want to record the sound, at least now, I just want to hear the vst sound from my keyboard speakers.

[Vittorio Foppiani]

The sound of cakewalk comes from the computer speakers