Making an AUDIO RECORDING

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Making an AUDIO RECORDING

Postby Hugh-AR » 09 Oct 2020 20:11

Making an AUDIO RECORDING

You can do Recordings in MIDI or AUDIO, but here we'll take a look at AUDIO RECORDING. When you make an AUDIO RECORDING the file you get is a WAV file (.WAV). This is a file that holds all the music information so typically is a fairly large file, something like 30-40MB. We use these for making CDs, so that's handy to have. But when you put them on the internet and make them available for others to listen to, then it is better to convert them to MP3, which is a 'compressed' form of the file. These typically are 3-4MB so don't use so much 'bandwidth' when downloading from the internet. Or, if we are listening to the music 'live', 'streaming' from the internet.

So, when you have recorded your music as WAV you really should convert that to MP3 format before uploading your music to wherever you are storing it on the internet .. Box, or Soundcloud, or whatever 'cloud' storage area you use. I'll finish this topic with explaining how to convert your music from WAV to MP3.

But first, doing the audio recording itself. The best way to start is to get your keyboard set up 'ready to play', with the chosen INTRO (if you're using one) and the SYNC START flashing so that as soon as you play your first chord you're off.

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Get yourself composed and 'at ease'. If you're anything like me you'll be stopping the recording and starting again anything up to 15 times .. or even more. If necessary, take a break and have a cup of tea or coffee to calm yourself down before starting again.

All ready now?

In the AUDIO RECORDER press the REC and the STOP buttons together (it does say NEW AUDIO underneath, with a line joining them) and then release the buttons. This threw me to begin with .. about two days .. and then I decided to look it up in the USER MANUAL .. as I have never before had to press two buttons to start a recording!

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Now, before you look at the screen that comes up, let me just tell you that if you haven't got everything set up ready to play, you can't do it just now. While you're carrying out this next bit the keyboard won't respond to you pressing any buttons.

This is the screen you get. It's decision time!

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You'll only need the MULTI TRACK recording if you are wanting to do things like Bounce, Punch In/Out etc., but be aware that this is an AUD file (not a WAV file) and can only be played back on the Tyros 4. What we want to do is a SIMPLE recording, so press the button next to that.

We now get this screen.

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Confirm by pressing the button next to OK. We are not recording yet, but are ready to activate the recording and getting it to start. It's now that you can press the buttons on your keyboard to get everything set up to 'play' (if you haven't already done it). So how do we actually get the recording going? It told you on that previous screen, where you pressed the OK. The screen has gone now. Are you ready to go? All calm and collected? The green light by the REC is flashing at you telling you it's ready to record.

Press the PLAY/PAUSE button, wait a second or two (but not for too long) .. and off you go.

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When you have reached the end of your recording press the STOP button. But don't be in too much of a hurry to do that! There's nothing worse then hearing the end of a recording 'cut off' before the music has actually finished and died away.

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Right. We have done our recording now, and the keyboard has already SAVED the recording on HD1, giving it it's own 'default' name with a number eg. S_Audio_001, as seen in the screen we see now:

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So where has the keyboard 'saved' it to? We'll take a look in a minute. For the moment the keyboard is all set up waiting for you to listen to the recording you have just done. Just press the PLAY/PAUSE button and it'll play it back to you.

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Happy with it? If not, you can go back to STEP 1 and do another recording ie. press the REC and STOP buttons together etc. etc.

If you're happy with your recording, we now have to find where the keyboard has put it and give our song a NAME.
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Re: Making an AUDIO RECORDING

Postby Hugh-AR » 10 Oct 2020 17:25

Right. We've done our recording and are happy with it. So now we have to find it. Bear in mind that these keyboards put things into 'compartments', and to see any of what we are looking for we have to go to the right area of the keyboard.

Looking at the MAIN SCREEN ...

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... if we want to look at the STYLES available we press button D; if we want a MULTI PAD we press button E; if we want a REGISTRATION BANK we press button J; if we want to see VOICES we press one of R1, R2, R3 or LEFT. If you press SONG (button A) you won't find any of your Audio Recordings in here!

You've guessed it. We have to access our Audio Recordings via the AUDIO RECORDER/PLAYER. You need to press the button on the far right.

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You will see under that button the word MODE with a sort of circular rectangle. This means that this button 'toggles' between three different areas, MULTI, SIMPLE and PLAYLIST. So if you see the screen below you are in AUDIO (MULTI), and we haven't recorded anything as MULTI .. so the folder is EMPTY.

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Press the button again. This is the AUDIO (SIMPLE) area. This looks more promising! Remembering the list is in Alphabetical order, you may have to press those Page Numbers underneath to get to the "S". In this example there is just the one, S_Audio_001. Press the button next to it to highlight it.

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Underneath the screen you will see NAME. Press the button under the screen corresponding to that. You will now see this.

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Press OK. In this next screen you need to press and hold DELETE and it will remove Yamaha's S_Audio_001 name so you can put your own in. Do that.

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Press the OK. Your song will now be SAVED in the AUDIO (SIMPLE} area. When you want to play any of your recorded songs, just find this AUDIO (SIMPLE} area, press the button next to the song you want to listen to .. which highlights it .. and loads it into the PLAYER ready for you to press the PLAY/PAUSE button to start it playing.

To put your song up into the Forum you need to highlight and COPY this song and PASTE it onto your Memory Stick. If you don't have a Memory Stick in already, it is always best to go back to the MAIN SCREEN (keep pressing the EXIT button until you get there) and then insert the Memory Stick. I have found that USB1 does not always show in the Tabs at the top if you don't insert that Memory Stick when the keyboard is in that MAIN SCREEN page.

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In my next post I'll explain how to convert this WAV file to MP3.
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Re: Making an AUDIO RECORDING

Postby dentyr » 12 Oct 2020 08:50

Converting WAV to MP3 using SWITCH


When putting music up on the internet for others to listen to it should be in MP3 format, not WAV. This is because MP3 files are just a tenth of the size of a WAV file and so can be downloaded much more easily.

You can convert a WAV file to MP3 using the NCH program SWITCH. If you don't already have it, get the FREE version. Do a Google Search for NCH Software and you will come up with this:

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Click on Free Software and look for Switch Audio Converter.

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Click on Download for WINDOWS (or the Mac OS X one if you have that).

A SETUP file will be downloaded (switchsetup.exe) and you will then have to find it and double-click on it.
If you haven't set you browser up to ask you where you want it downloaded it will automatically be put into the Downloads folder.
Use Windows Explorer to go and look for it.
If you have set your browser up to ask you where you want it downloaded you will have to choose where to put it, and you will see a drop-down box for doing this. Maybe put it on your Desktop so you can find it easily. That's the screen you see when you turn your computer on.

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Wherever it has been put, go and find it.

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Then double-click on it and you will be taken through the steps to get the program installed on your computer.
The first screen will ask you if you want it to make changes to your computer.
Say YES.

On the next screen accept the Licensing Terms and then click Next.

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The Switch Program will be installed.

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When you have a WAV file to convert to MP3 run the program and you will see this next screen.
Make sure you have the Output Format set as .mp3 (bottom left).
You can also choose where to save it to. Save to folder: and click Browse.
Or, if you tick the box Save to source file folder it will put it in the same place as your WAV file.
Click the green + on the left.

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A drop-down box will appear for you to find your WAV file and 'Open' it. It will appear at the top of the box.

Click Convert.

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Go to the folder where your MP3 has been put.

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When you UPLOAD your file to Box you find and upload the MP3 one.

Hope all this is clear!

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