Start AUDACITY by press RECORD (keep the default settings as they are) Usually a cable with a small and a big stereo Jackplug!
Make a connection between keyboard HEADPHONE OUT (or LINE OUT if this keyboard has it) to PC soundcard LINE IN. In your case Patrick, since this keyboard is broken (is it only the floppydrive? let me know) you have to use/find another keyboard (not a computer!)with a working floppydrive.ĭownload for free a program called AUDACITY and install it on a computer. If you put a MIDI-song direct on a CD you can NOT play it as such! It has to be transferred into an audible format, WAV or MP3 as an example. MIDI is NOT music but a sort of computerlanguage and it is a long stream of commands to tell the midi-instrument, what a keyboard is, what key should sound, what voice to use (piano, organ, violin), how long, how loud, vibrato yes or no etc. The music on the floppies are recorded as MIDI songs. They are cheap and it works! That is how I transferred my thousands of midi- and voice-files.Ī few points to make clear first for people who want to do the same as you. If you have a computer with NO floppydrive,you can buy an external floppydrive with an USB connection. If the other keyboard doesn't has a floppydrive you have only to transfer your midi's from floppy to a USB-flashdrive or whatever 'the other' keyboard can handle. The other way around, midi to wav or mp3, yes you can, and you did it with success in Audacity.īut as the original songs are recorded on a keyboard they are already in midiformat (extension xxx.MID) and you can play them on any other keyboard. You can NOT transfer wav or mp3 into MIDI unless you have a soundstudio with expensive prof equipment. I am afraid I don't clearly understand the problem. Normally I never react on messages from people with no name but you must have forgotten to mention it. What do you suggest I do to be able to play the songs that are recorded from the old clavinova onto the new clavinova? Thanks and thanks for answering an old lady named 'anonymous'. I do know that I don't want to reformat the disk as that would erase the songs. If it is able, maybe I just haven't figured it out yet. The floppy drive doesn't play the old clavinova floppies. It came with a mounted external floppy drive, a usb thumb drive, and i would assume a fairly large internal storage. They are harder to find now, so we purchased the new clavinova. We have had that portion of the clavinova (drive and arm) replaced at least 3 times over the last 20 odd years. The old clavinova has a library of about 300-500 songs on floppy disks that are deteriorating with time and also the clavinova's loading arm is beginning to not work consistently. Got caught up with life and trying to keep my church music program going and didn't check back for your answer. Hi, I think I was the 'anonymous poster' to this question.
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