Korg Karma Help please!

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Please help me guys!

I'm pretty new to the MIDI world, and I can figure out how to record my samples to my PC.

[Pretty Pretty Cyanide]

Get a sequencer like Cubase\Sonar\Logic. So you can capture keystokes or step sequence to the Karma.

Get a soundcard (Audiophile is $170 or less) and has midi i/o.

Get MIDI cables to transfer data of sequences.

Get Audio cables to transfer audio as a result of above sequences

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Originally posted by Pretty Pretty Cyanide:
Get a sequencer like Cubase\Sonar\Logic. So you can capture keystokes or step sequence to the Karma.

Get a soundcard (Audiophile is $170 or less) and has midi i/o.

Get MIDI cables to transfer data of sequences.

Get Audio cables to transfer audio as a result of above sequences


Tankyou for your reply!

What I'm using now is an old Cakewalk program(Pro Audio 7) With a Soundblaster Live!, wich I wanna get rid of. Anyway, I got all my cables hooked up correctly. When I strike a note on my Karma I hear the sounds of my sofware synth, but what I wanna hear is my Karma sounds.

I read something about "Data Dumping" in my manual. Does that have anything to do with it? If so, How?

[Pretty Pretty Cyanide]

Hooking up a Karma to an SB huh?

Look in the Pokemon game section for a converter for your Soundblaster.

Or do what's necessary now and save up for a real soundcard and buy Audio cables with 1/4 one side and whatever your soon to be soundcard inputs on the other. I know the Karma (and well most synths) have 1/4 inputs but depending on what you are going to get, it could be RCA shape or 1/4 ince as well.

You can even get cable that is RCA male on one side and 1/4 male on the other. then get a converter to plug it in that tiny soundcard hole in the soundblaster until you get a real soundcard

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My karma is connected to my mixer and my mixer to my soundcard. This works fine.

My midi cables in/out are connected to my midi port on my Sound card and I'm able to control my software synth with my karma just fine. But can I record my Karma's sounds on my Cakewalk's sequencer as Midi data?

[Pretty Pretty Cyanide]

NO. So basically you are saying you want to record midi from wav or sound from the Karma? well then no.


You need midi cables to record midi data. If you have Sonar just look into the manual on how to record midi input and assigning midi.

Then you can sequence to the Karma from Sonar via Midi. THen Karma sends back sound to Sonar through the audio I/O.


[This message has been edited by Pretty Pretty Cyanide (edited 02-13-2003).]