Q: okay big question. say i have a DAW that records me playing the keyboard, but i want the final sound of the recorded track to not be that of the keyboard preset i played live, but that of a plugin/one of those DAW instrument presets. basically, i don't want to use my keyboard to type all the notes if i don't need to. h o w in the world is this achieved? does the ability to record your physical playing of keyboard AS a plugin depend on the make of the keyboard? ps sorry this is long-winded, i'm a complete amateur and my music terminology is limited atm
A: i'm not entirely sure what you mean because it seems like some of the things you said go against other things you said ..... but if you are wondering how to record midi with a keyboard.... your keyboard needs to be a midi controller. and most of them are. in modern times that usually means you need to connect the keyboard with a USB cable, and then make sure you have the right MIDI driver installed on your computer (always available on the website for your keyboard.... so that would be the yamaha website, or korg website, roland, etc). and then you wanna tell your recording software that you are gonna record a MIDI track, not an audio track. then if you press record on a midi track, it will be listening for you to play your midi keyboard and it will record the midi data. and then you can use whatever sound you want, in the computer