The last time I wanted to record a voice announcement on my computer was a few years back, and as I recall I hooked up my Microsoft Lifechat headset and used Audacity to do the recording. Now I want to record a "recitation", which consists of me playing my piano and talking over it. I have a Casio CDP-230 digital piano but I've never tried hooking it up to my computer and making a recording. It does have a USB midi port on it, but I've never used it. Has anyone else done something like this? I'm wondering what the easiest way to simultaneously record from a microphone and a digital piano would be. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 05:20:36PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:> The last time I wanted to record a voice announcement on my computer was a few years back, and as I recall I hooked up my Microsoft Lifechat headset and used Audacity to do the recording. > > Now I want to record a "recitation", which consists of me playing my piano and talking over it. > > I have a Casio CDP-230 digital piano but I've never tried hooking it up to my computer and making a recording. It does have a USB midi port on it, but I've never used it. > > Has anyone else done something like this? I'm wondering what the easiest way to simultaneously record from a microphone and a digital piano would be.not having done it either, I nevertheless have a thought... Still use Audacity, just make a separate track for the voice, then you can mix it down to however many tracks you want. that way you can redo the voice if you mess up, or re-mix if you don't like the levels. that's hard to do if you record it all into the same (set of) track(s). I'd assume your piano also has an audio output, so you could plug it into a computer's line input and record from that. I'd further assume you'd prefer a "real" piano sound over midi. but I might be wrong there. Good luck, and let us know how it goes. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------
On 06/22/2015 07:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:> The last time I wanted to record a voice announcement on my computer was a few years back, and as I recall I hooked up my Microsoft Lifechat headset and used Audacity to do the recording. > > Now I want to record a "recitation", which consists of me playing my piano and talking over it.The USB MIDI port won't give you audio, just MIDI text. What sort of sound card do you have? While most consumer PC sound cards won't let you mix one channel at mic level and one channel at line level, yours might actually be an exception, but the model of it would be needed to make that determination. Most pro-quality audio interfaces will let you do this, or are line input only. To do this with a consumer card, you could set it for line level input and then run one channel straight from the piano's audio output and one channel through a mic preamp hooked to you microphone, with the output hooked to the other line input channel. Now, if you want to do stereo on the voice and piano, you'll either need a four channel card or you'll need to overdub, which Audacity among other programs can do. Ardour and Mixbus can do latency compensation for overdubs, but I don't know if Audacity can or not. A Zoom H4N works well for this wort of thing, either doing its own recording or being a USB-connected soundcard, which is supposed to work ok even in a Linux.
i did not know you had such talents Frank. ;-) On 06/22/2015 06:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:> The last time I wanted to record a voice announcement on my computer > was a few years back, and as I recall I hooked up my Microsoft > Lifechat headset and used Audacity to do the recording. > > Now I want to record a "recitation", which consists of me playing my > piano and talking over it. > > I have a Casio CDP-230 digital piano but I've never tried hooking it > up to my computer and making a recording. It does have a USB midi > port on it, but I've never used it. > > Has anyone else done something like this? I'm wondering what the > easiest way to simultaneously record from a microphone and a digital > piano would be.i can not say that i have and not just because i do not play piano. :-) i will make a suggestion, do it like it would be done in an actual recording studio. 1st- lay down the piano on a track until you get it like you want it to sound. 2nd- record the talk on a second track. 3rd- when you have second track like you want, mix the 2 to 1. this way, you only have 1 thing to concentrate on at a time. trying to play piano and keep beat can be difficult if you are also trying to read and talk. that is presuming you can chew gum and walk at the same time. ((GBWG)) hth. -- peace out. -+- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. -+- CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:15:35 -0400 Lamar Owen wrote:> The USB MIDI port won't give you audio, just MIDI text.That's what I thought. To this point, I've never done anything MIDI and I really don't know much about that; I just use my piano for the purpose of playing the piano.> What sort of sound card do you have?description: Audio device product: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller vendor: Intel Corporation I think I will try to do this with Audacity as Fred Smith suggested. If I record the speaking part first, I can then somehow play it back and record the piano track while listening to the voice track to get the timing right. What I'm doing doesn't really have a beat or rhythm like a song -- it's a dramatic reading, but some of the words have a note or chord to sound along with them so getting it coordinated will be the challenge. Thanks to everyone for the help and suggestions. I'll give this a shot and see what develops. The last time I used Audacity I just had a sound effect and a voice part. I recorded the voice part with Audacity, spliced in the sound effect and that was it. This is going to be a bit more complex. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
On 06/22/15 19:20, Frank Cox wrote:> The last time I wanted to record a voice announcement on my computer was a few years back, and as I recall I hooked up my Microsoft Lifechat headset and used Audacity to do the recording. > > Now I want to record a "recitation", which consists of me playing my piano and talking over it. > > I have a Casio CDP-230 digital piano but I've never tried hooking it up to my computer and making a recording. It does have a USB midi port on it, but I've never used it. > > Has anyone else done something like this? I'm wondering what the easiest way to simultaneously record from a microphone and a digital piano would be. >1.) You can record the MIDI output with a program called MuseScore. MuseScore can then export the file in MP3 format which you can import into Audacity. Piano part done. 2.) Then record the voice part into Audacity on a separate track from a USB microphone plugged into your computer. Voice part done. 3.) Edit and mix the two tracks to your heart's delight with Audacity. Project done. -- _ ?v? /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****