Can anyone teach me how to properly connect my keyboard to cakewalk without any of these issues? Please HELP!

[Chelsea]

Hi everyone 

I've connected my Yamaha PSR E-373 to my laptop successfully but some of my midi tracks (drums, some piano etc) don't play very well and are playing at a different pitch. I intend to use my yamaha and its sounds as an audio track rather than a midi instrument, however when I do not tick the boxes in the midi settings my keyboard is playing at the correct pitch (and not the same pitch as the recordings). Originally the recordings were at the right pitch but with these settings its changed the pitch of ALL my projects. 

 

Further context:

So I bought this new keyboard and had trouble connecting it to cakewalk because it would play back everything in the project (incl the metronome built in cakewalk) as I recorded. Previously I was on MME instead of WASAPI and output was Left instead of Stereo but a kind cakewalker helped me through. However now I'm having further issues with the pitch of my projects. Can anyone teach me how to properly connect my keyboard to cakewalk without any of these issues? Please help!! ?

 

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[Glenn Stanton]

you need to install the Yamaha USB driver for the keyboard in order to use it as a MIDI controller.

https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical_instruments/keyboards/portable_keyboards/psr-e373/downloads.html

i have an older casio which requires a similar installation of driver in order to work.

once you install it, you should see it as an option for MIDI in CW.