Q: Caveman here, I hold a microphone next to the speaker of an electric keyboard every time I want to record music. I get the feeling that there's a more efficient way to record but the all midi apps I've tried either were too confusing or they produced something that sounded completely different to what I was playing. Do you have any suggestions, or should I keep doing what I was doing?
A: what you're doing seems great. you actually skipped a concept in between midi and microphone, and that would be direct audio (recording the audio through a wire, but still recording the audio output and not the midi). in which case you'd get the exact sound of the keyboard, not just the 'midi notes'. but it turns out, if you do that, you might find it disappointing that you can't hear the air and sound of the room, and, most importantly, the tapping sounds of your hands on the keys. also besides all of that there's another advantage of the way you're doing it which is of course that you are doing it. the other ones are in fact not happening, so they are pretty useless anyway in that regard