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[miniroll32]

Hi guys - I'm not the most experienced in this area, so forgive me! I'm looking to connect my microKorg to my MacBook so I can send MIDI information of all the sounds I've made. I've used a USB > MIDI set of cables, which can transmit MIDI blocks, but I'm not getting any audio out of it.

Help!

[X-Trade]

I think you're confused over the purposes of MIDI:

MIDI carries no audio data. it carries messages along the lines of 'note on, note off, controller change' etc. so that when you change a knob or parameter, or play a note, move the pitch bend or wheel, etc, then it sends that information. you could record this into a sequencer, correct any mistakes (or just keep it in the piano roll as a reference in case you forget what you played and need to re-record it), and send it back to the microkorg in order to get it play back those notes.

similarly if you had another controller keyboard and another synthesizer unlike the microkorg (a multitimbral one) then you could have that synthesizer generate a different sound for the channel that the other keyboard is transmitting on.

the mac couldn't reproduce the microkorg's sounds on its own because it doesn't have the dedicated DSP software running on the microkorg's chips. you could use plugins to get similar sounds, but then why have a microkorg?

if you want to get the audio out of your microkorg, you need to hook up an audio line from the stereo out (either by using a splitter cable with your left/right outputs, or if you really have to, then from your headphones out).
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