Little-Acorn Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I just got a Casio WK-240. It has a number of built-in songs, obviously, including "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", which my 8-year-old loves. I connected the keyboard by USB cable to our Windows 7 system running FInale 2011b. Now when we hit keys on the Casio keyboard, we can watch Finale put the notes up on a blank piano score, and sound them through the computer's speakers (as well as through the keyboard's speakers), lots of fun for him. Obviously every Casio keyboard stroke is being translated to MIDI commands and sent to the Window system. But when we make the keyboard automatically play its "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", no notes appear on the Finale score, and no sound comes out of the computer's speakers. It looks to me that built-in songs are not translated to MIDI commands as they play, unlike individual keyboard-played notes. Is there a way to make the keyboard send MIDI commands for every note in the built-in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as it plays them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- T - Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 To my knowledge, all Casio keyboards are designed such that any of their "demo" or "lesson" songs are played directly, and solely, to the keyboard's internal sound circuits, and not to the MIDI "OUT" or "USB" ports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little-Acorn Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 Thanks, tnicoson. I was afraid of that. I've heard elsewhere that it might have to do with copyrights on the arrangements, who knows. C'est dommage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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