Record sound output? Uh as far as I’m aware midi is just an interface for ‘knob values/notes’ and not the actual ‘sound output’.

I’m guessing you’d need a x to 3.5mm audio jack convertor thingy (which you plug into your pc’s audio line in). Or alternatively those midi interface boxies.

Could be completely wrong though :P?

It doesn’t work like that Poly … MIDI doesn’t carry any sound in it. You want to use the Audio our from your korg to record from … MIDI is just note on/off and time signature info and other stuff like that. It’s for linking with other midi to keep them in synk mainly.

@General Lighting 477228 wrote:

if you can afford it you are way better off using some other equipment to record the audio – you can buy 24 bit audio recorders what use micro sd-cards for about £50-£100…

you then connect the analogue audio output from your Korg into the recorder, use the MIDI and your computer sequencer program to trigger the sounds from the Korg and use the recorder like the old style tape decks..

the difference is you can then use the USB or a card reader to get a digital wav file you could load back into other software…

What’s better using this method of recording as opposed to recording stright to PC?

@General Lighting 477259 wrote:

I’d prefer having external recording kit simply because unless you’ve got a really decent pro-audio soundcard and a laptop tuned for audio recording you are going to get all the noise from the PC into the audio, especially laptops which are horrendous for this when not on battery, then there are all manner of gotchas with recording sound on laptops due to latency and the ACPI drivers (esp Win 7) for battery being broken.

also worth getting a cheap-ish mixer like the Soundcraft notepad series into which the Korg and any other MIDI controlled instruments can be plugged into (this allows you to have varying levels for your record output and monitor speakers, as the smaller recorders “one size fits all” mic/line input is otherwise easy to overload

ah yeah i was thinking it was a pc he was using for some reason … even though i know he uses a lap top >.<

I’m confused, do you want to record the MIDI data or audio data?

If it’s the MIDI, any sequencer will do this (by setting up the MIDI ins/outs in the preferences, your USB driver should be an option), if it’s the audio you can use a sequencer or almost any audio program like GoldWave by connecting the keyboard jack output to your computer line in (all sound cards have one, usually minijack for cheaper ones)

@p0ly 477331 wrote:

why does MIDI carry sound from one synth to another and why do MIDI things record and upload on MIDI sequncer programs if it doesn’t pick up any audio?

MIDI doesn’t carry sound from one synth to another. MIDI synks boths synths together so that when the sequencer program records the audio from both they are in perfect time the whole way through. Also it allows your sequencer program to trigger notes on your synths at precise times. You need to use Audio AND MIDI. Without audio you’ll hear nothing.

Without MIDI anything you connect to your sequencer will only play when you physically press the play button on your synth and you’ll not be able to program in the notes in your sequencer, you’ll have to make the whole tune on the synth.

For example when I have my MC 303 plugged in I’ll have midi cables and audio coming out of it. The audio cables I “capture” the sound from and the MIDI I use to control the MC 303 and keep it locked in time with the rest of my project.

Give me a shout in pm when you online and are actually playing with your sound stuff and I’ll explain it in detail over chat.

@Pat McDonald 478518 wrote:

I’m a firm believer in cheap and effective.

EDIT: Checked the manual of the original and GOOD NEWS – easy way.

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Get an old Smart media card and one of those USB-Smart card readers. Record the track onto the card on the Korg EMX sampler. Take the card out and plug it into the USB-Smart card readers (some pound shops have them, shop around, they need not be expensive). Plug the USB end into the Mac lappy and the track should show up on listing for the memory card on the laptop as a .MID file.

If that isn’t an option because the Smart media card port on the sampler is fucked – put up what sort of Macs ya got and I’ll look into it. I really don’t think a MIDI-USB port will work – because USB was supposed to replace MIDI and isn’t generally backwards compatible. If there’s a different serial port on the Mac side, you can transfer from a MIDI-port into that. But snag is a lot of USB gear isn’t really Mac compatible. When it comes to bodging together new and old, that is. Bodge isn’t really what Macs are about.

All you’ll transfer then is the midi data, what with out being played on the korg is useless for what Poly wants to do.

@DaftFader 478525 wrote:

All you’ll transfer then is the midi data, what with out being played on the korg is useless for what Poly wants to do.

This isn’t quite accurate but I have discovered a snag. As per the manual, you can actually save ALL song data to Smart media.

Snag is, getting a Mac to read the data. I don’t know if the format is FAT32 (pretty standard for memory cards and MP3 players) or some other fancy standard that Korg came up with. I also don’t know if the format for the saved data is .MID or some other standard. As for the format for what samples and instruments are…

… only Korg know. It might be worth checking with them, because if the Format IS a standard (.MID for tune notation and .WAV or .AAC for sample data) then it should read straight into a Mac without a problem.

IF NOT, then using a soundcard to resample the song played from the Korg EMX “live” is a viable guaranteed solution. But capturing the original data in digital form would give best fidelity.