Zeke, don't give up but if you don't know what a DAW is then you have a lot of reading and playing to do. DAW = Digital Audio Workstation. What we're talking about here is Digital Audio and how to work with it.

I can't stress enough for a noob like yourself you MUST learn Real Band at the same time you're learning Biab. Spend an hour with one then an hour with the other.

Bob's mantra: "Audio is not midi, midi is not audio, ommmmmm". Learn that and understand it.

Here's a start. Take your keyboard for example. When you listen to it using the 1/4" audio outs to an amp, that's audio. When you have it hooked up to your computer using midi cables you're sending midi information NOT audio information to your computer. That's midi.

But, and here's the confusing part in order to hear what the midi information is doing you can use any midi synth you want either software or hardware. It doesn't have to be your keyboard playing it back. All you did was use your keyboard to enter the midi info. But if you want to hear your keyboard play back the midi info you still need the keyboard's audio outs connected to your studio monitors. Audio vs midi.

Bob

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