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first of all, hi.
first post
i own a yamaha psr-6 which looks great and the keyboard feels very nice.
i wonder if it could be used as a midi keyboard...
if some one could guide me that would be great
thanks in advance !

Yes, it is (probably) possible.
If you have a soundcard that supports midi, just route the midi auto from your keyboard to the soundcard (and probably adjust some parameters in your daw)
There are also little hardware devices that goes from normal midi to usb midi. Same principle as the soundcard. I think roland has a pretty decent one for a pretty good price.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Yamaha-PSR-47-MI ... 3a7afb6a55

why don't you just buy this

societyloser1 wrote:Yes, it is (probably) possible.
If you have a soundcard that supports midi, just route the midi auto from your keyboard to the soundcard (and probably adjust some parameters in your daw)
There are also little hardware devices that goes from normal midi to usb midi. Same principle as the soundcard. I think roland has a pretty decent one for a pretty good price.

i forgot to mention, this organ has two outputs: dc in and headphones/aux out

glottis5 wrote:http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Yamaha-PSR-47-MI ... 3a7afb6a55

why don't you just buy this

shipping to where i live costs 10 times more than the piano itself
my brothers used to play on it when they were young, so this organ isn't just plastic to me

sorry man ,it is a toy

If it has no MIDI I/Os it's probably going to very difficult to make it a MIDI keyboard...probably better off buying a MIDI Keyboard.

fragments wrote:If it has no MIDI I/Os it's probably going to very difficult to make it a MIDI keyboard...probably better off buying a MIDI Keyboard.

in that case i'll just stick with my computer keyboard

Yea man...as far as I know you are talking a serious mod that isn't worth your time unless you just like doing that kinda stuff. Where are you that you can't get buy a set of keys and get it shipped to you?!

Just a thought if you just want to record melodies from it, you could plug it into a line input on your computer and use something like Melodyne to get the midi data from the notes. Would probably be best if there is an instrument close to a sine wave on the keyboard.

fragments wrote:Yea man...as far as I know you are talking a serious mod that isn't worth your time unless you just like doing that kinda stuff. Where are you that you can't get buy a set of keys and get it shipped to you?!

israel

I see. Wish I had better suggestion for you, but I really don't :/ You've no music shops that sell these kinds of products?

fragments wrote:I see. Wish I had better suggestion for you, but I really don't :/ You've no music shops that sell these kinds of products?

not cheap at all,
in the US m-audio keyrig 49 sells for 100$
in israel it sells for 150$ (600nis)

snappy wrote:

fragments wrote:I see. Wish I had better suggestion for you, but I really don't :/ You've no music shops that sell these kinds of products?

not cheap at all,
in the US m-audio keyrig 49 sells for 100$
in israel it sells for 150$ (600nis)

That is a large difference. That's pretty terrible as this production thing tends to become an expensive hobby! Maybe you can find a place that sells used items.

fragments wrote:

snappy wrote:

fragments wrote:I see. Wish I had better suggestion for you, but I really don't :/ You've no music shops that sell these kinds of products?

not cheap at all,
in the US m-audio keyrig 49 sells for 100$
in israel it sells for 150$ (600nis)

That is a large difference. That's pretty terrible as this production thing tends to become an expensive hobby! Maybe you can find a place that sells used items.

yeah i can do that, there is a good second hand market 15 minutes drive from my house.
one day i saw sony tape mastering decks there

^I would make the drive then. I have to drive about twenty minutes just by a quarter inch instrument cable! I don't know if you have pawn shops, but they can be a place to look for gear as well. Occasionally a pawn shop won't even know what they really have and sell it for cheap (though they usually error on the side of too expensive).

fragments wrote:^I would make the drive then. I have to drive about twenty minutes just by a quarter inch instrument cable! I don't know if you have pawn shops, but they can be a place to look for gear as well. Occasionally a pawn shop won't even know what they really have and sell it for cheap (though they usually error on the side of too expensive).

thats the good thing about having a small country
half of the stuff that people sell there is stolen

^LOL...bought a few things questionably obtained goods myself...