Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread g
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

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread Lamar Owen
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

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread g
On 06/23/2015 05:14 PM, Frank Cox wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread Frank Cox
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

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:14:08AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com said: do note, if this is a stage grade electric piano, using big phone plugs, the audio level out is not quite the same as consumer line level that a computer input would want to record, you'll likely have to crank the recording level way

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/23/2015 10:14 AM, Frank Cox wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:14:08 -0600 Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/23/2015 2:05 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I'll have to dig out the manual for my piano and do a bit of reading to see what's really going on with those plugs and whatnot. The only thing I've ever plugged into it so far is headphones. if you can plug in headphones, then you can plug it into a

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:41:42 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: do note, if this is a stage grade electric piano, using big phone plugs, the audio level out is not quite the same as consumer line level that a computer input would want to record, My piano does indeed the big phone plugs. I have

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/23/2015 10:54 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Line-level is line-level. A keyboard will be putting out an unbalanced line-level signal, and a DI box converts that to a balanced mic-level signal (usually XLR) for a soundboard. Since most computers don't have XLR (or other balanced) input, a DI box

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 14:26:19 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: if you can plug in headphones, then you can plug it into a computer line-in jack with a suitable cable, just set the headphone volume on the piano for about 60-70% of full range, thats a good approximation of 1V P-P line input. Thank

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-23 Thread Mark LaPierre
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

[CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-22 Thread Frank Cox
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

Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice

2015-06-22 Thread Fred Smith
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