All i want is to record from my micro korg to my laptop

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thanks for your help but i still cannot get a sound out from the keyboard.

lets start over again, at my possession:

midi cable one in one out and the other usb plugs.

do i hook both the in and out on the back of mini korg or just the out?

secondly male to male cord which like you said goes to the mini korg's back with a headphone converter to the headphone jack of the laptop.

mini korg on edit select 2 midi. how do you make sure mini korg is working properly for the midi?


i have a demo version of cool edit. i didn't understand what you meant by line enabled 0 , where is that in cool edit?

thirdly where do i change my laptop settings to read the korg?

on the control panel? if so where?

bloody hell why is this so diffucult?


and i have no midi interface.

Heh, right

First of all, I would just plug the headphones into the Korg and then try transmitting MIDI to the Korg. The MIDI lead needs to be MIDI out from the laptop to MIDI in on the Korg, how MIDI out is marked on the cable depends on the sanity of the manufacturers I'm afraid, try the "out" male din plug first.

I know the settings on the MicroKorg are a bit of a minefield, my mate Steve Walker has one and we had some issues trying to find the setting to use line in with the vocoder. My guess is the MIDI settings are probably in "Global", you'll be looking for MIDI Rx channel, set it to channel 1. When you test transmit with MidiOx make sure it's channel 1 you're sending to.

Once you've established MIDI transmission with the Korg, change the headphones to the jack to jack going from Korg line out socket (or headphones if it hasn't got line out), and the other end into line in socket on the laptop. And plug your headphones into the headphone socket on the laptop.

To get to the Windows mixer settings for setting up Line in recording you can do it in Cool Edit. Go Options > Windows Recording Mixer, that should spring up the Audio in select source and levels,
Assuming you're using the default Window Mixer and not some awful Realtek or similar mixing console, leave the levels at zero (line level) and on the "select" tick boxes tick the one below Line In. If you can't see Line In, Go Options > Properties and in the list tick Line In in the list then click OK. Tick the select. Then before you close that window, Go Options > Properties > Tick the Adjust volume for - Playback and make sure Line In is ticked in the list, then click OK.
You should have the main Audio out console up, raise the level for Line In, now if you hit a key on the Korg you should hear it through the headphones on the laptop.

Plug the other MIDI din into the out of the Korg to record MIDI, you can also test this with MidiOx.

After that you should be good to go.

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Heh, right

First of all, I would just plug the headphones into the Korg and then try transmitting MIDI to the Korg. The MIDI lead needs to be MIDI out from the laptop to MIDI in on the Korg, how MIDI out is marked on the cable depends on the sanity of the manufacturers I'm afraid, try the "out" male din plug first.

I know the settings on the MicroKorg are a bit of a minefield, my mate Steve Walker has one and we had some issues trying to find the setting to use line in with the vocoder. My guess is the MIDI settings are probably in "Global", you'll be looking for MIDI Rx channel, set it to channel 1. When you test transmit with MidiOx make sure it's channel 1 you're sending to.

Once you've established MIDI transmission with the Korg, change the headphones to the jack to jack going from Korg line out socket (or headphones if it hasn't got line out), and the other end into line in socket on the laptop. And plug your headphones into the headphone socket on the laptop.

To get to the Windows mixer settings for setting up Line in recording you can do it in Cool Edit. Go Options > Windows Recording Mixer, that should spring up the Audio in select source and levels,
Assuming you're using the default Window Mixer and not some awful Realtek or similar mixing console, leave the levels at zero (line level) and on the "select" tick boxes tick the one below Line In. If you can't see Line In, Go Options > Properties and in the list tick Line In in the list then click OK. Tick the select. Then before you close that window, Go Options > Properties > Tick the Adjust volume for - Playback and make sure Line In is ticked in the list, then click OK.
You should have the main Audio out console up, raise the level for Line In, now if you hit a key on the Korg you should hear it through the headphones on the laptop.

Plug the other MIDI din into the out of the Korg to record MIDI, you can also test this with MidiOx.

After that you should be good to go.

thanks mate, i'll give that a go tomorrow.