How to record music from a synthesizer on a PC?

Question

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Given: Yamaha DGX-230 synthesizer with Midi-USB port.
Task: Record music from it to a computer in good quality.
The synthesizer has a Midi-USB output. Now Cubase is being launched, a midi track from the synthesizer is being written into it. However, when trying to do an "Export audio mixdown", Cubase just freezes. This is a bug in versions prior to 5.5.3. I don’t even have version 5.5.3 on the warez, but I don’t want to buy Cubase just for the sake of simply recording a track.
Googling about this only finds thousands of pages of VSTi/DSP/blablabla guides, which are not necessary in this case. So far, I'm taking a midi track and converting it to mp3, but the quality is not very good.
Is there really no adequate software, where there are two bold buttons - Record and Save As? ..
How to simply and efficiently record music from a synthesizer via Midi-USB?

Answer 1

1. When you transmit a song via MIDI, it is stored in Cubase as a set of events—when to hit which note on which track. The sounds themselves are not transmitted via MIDI.
2. “Export audio mixdown”, or whatever this function is called, works fine for me in all versions of Cubase, in particular, in this one (full portable, I recommend).
3. The sound quality when exporting from Cubase depends on the instrument samples used. For example, Ivory samples are very good for piano sounds, as well as the GALAXY II series . For other instruments, you also need to select high-quality samples.

Answer 2

in the synthesizer - its own sound synthesis block
in the cube - its own,
so when you play the synthesizer through the cube - you control the cube synthesizer with the keys, and therefore you get a different sound.
I'm not sure, but sometimes you can upload a sound bank from a synthesizer to cubese and assemble a melody there.
Further - the synthesizer has an audio output, in any case, at least for headphones - you can remove the sound from it and record it on the computer's audio card. The quality will not be very studio-grade by studio standards, but in an analog way you will achieve the maximum approximation to the usual synthesizer sound.
to record this way you need to record from the audio input in analog form to an analog track.

Answer 3

MIDI is a data transfer format, nothing more. What do you want to record on it in "good quality"?

Answer 4

Two options.
1. We record by audio input. The headphone output of the synthesizer is plugged into the line input of the computer's sound card. We write WAV or mp3 whatever. I like Sound Forge, you can immediately process the recording in it. This cable is suitable for this:
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2. Record MIDI. Then we render with the software synthesizer of the sound card, and not with Cubase. In general, for working with notes and MIDI I prefer Finale.

Answer 5

Just recently got a MIDI-USB cord. So far, it has only been possible to record MIDI in real time in the old CakeWalk Pro Audio 9

Answer 6

People, you are lost in some forest. Why does Yamaha provide a USB output on the instrument? In order to download and install the driver for this instrument on your computer, connect it to your computer via USB and use the sound from it in the best quality. In this case, the "synthesizer" itself turns into an external sound card and reproduces sounds for Cubase itself when outputting a sound track played on your "synthesizer". So we get the sound of the synthesizer in unchanged quality. To do this, after installing all the drivers and connecting the instrument to the computer, launch Cubase and select "output device" ---> "your_synthesizer_by_its_name_in_Windows" in the settings. Uff.....