Hi all

I have a Yamaha PSR-500 which I want to connect to my computer. 
However i'm having a nightmare trying to get it to work.

I'm having a go using Midi maestro I think its called, and using the
keyboard on the screen I can make my keyboard play notes, however I
can't play notes on my keyboard and get them to sound through the
computer....

Is there anything I have to do to get this to work?  I am a midi
newbie, I think i've set the channels correctly though.....

I'm wondering if my keyboard is broken If i can only receive and not
send midi from it ?!?

I assume that you have read the PSR-500 manual and have set its 
MIDI configuration to send MIDI out, and you have two MIDI cables 
connecting MIDI in to MIDI out between your computer and keyboard.

What program you are using on your computer to receive the MIDI 
signals and drive your computer sound board?

Thanks,
Jeff Sandys

Joe Price wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I have a Yamaha PSR-500 which I want to connect to my computer.
> However i'm having a nightmare trying to get it to work.
> 
> I'm having a go using Midi maestro I think its called, and using the
> keyboard on the screen I can make my keyboard play notes, however I
> can't play notes on my keyboard and get them to sound through the
> computer....
> 
> Is there anything I have to do to get this to work?  I am a midi
> newbie, I think i've set the channels correctly though.....
> 
> I'm wondering if my keyboard is broken If i can only receive and not
> send midi from it ?!?

Hi!!!

I got an Yamaha DJX, aka PSR D1.

And this is Basic in using MIDI.

First of all.

It does not going out any Audio data by the MIDI interface, only MIDI 
data, which are, note info, sysex, other infor like then you use Pitch 
Bend Wheel.

The sound from the synth/keyboard you are using, goes allways out from 
the instrument itself.

If you must have the computer also yell the same as the keyboard, you 
have to configure the software to send MIDI signals to an soundcards 
often GM library, which will give an other sound then the keyboard itself.

The audio comes allways out from the instrument itself, connected 
eighter to headphones, cassettdeck, mixer or where you want to pic up 
the audio signal for recording.

So this.

No Audio data thrue the MIDI interface.
The software only record MIDI data, not audio, unless you use an Audio 
software, and then have connected the Audio Out from the synth to record 
the Audio signal, but it was MIDI now, so forget that for the moment.

I hope this have helped a lot.

Regards

Mikael Lj


Joe Price wrote / skrev:

> Hi all
> 
> I have a Yamaha PSR-500 which I want to connect to my computer. 
> However i'm having a nightmare trying to get it to work.
> 
> I'm having a go using Midi maestro I think its called, and using the
> keyboard on the screen I can make my keyboard play notes, however I
> can't play notes on my keyboard and get them to sound through the
> computer....
> 
> Is there anything I have to do to get this to work?  I am a midi
> newbie, I think i've set the channels correctly though.....
> 
> I'm wondering if my keyboard is broken If i can only receive and not
> send midi from it ?!?