Can I use my Roland VA-76 ARRANGER as a midi controller in Cakewalk Sonar 6 or do I have to buy one of these.. http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Keystation61es-main.html

thank you

[This message has been edited by claudiu (edited 07-17-2007).]

You can use your VA-76

for midi i connect it with the USB midi-sport cable from m-audio, i set the midi in and midi out, and when i try to record a midi track, i press a note on my keyboard and it has these weird echoes to it. i don't know what to do..i turned the local parts in my keyboard OFF, and it still does it.
please help me

turn off "always echo midi track" in options-global.
dennis

Miden i did that, and now i don't get sound at all and the little light doesn't lit when i press the keys on the keyboard.
As soon as i select the echo thing under Options > Global, i have sound and the echo is still present.

the echo i get: I press the C key and after i press it several times i also get a sound like i'm pressing the same note 5 octaves downwards.
and if i play several notes some sound, and some don't.

i don't know what to do

Have you tried taking "local" off on your VA 76?

are you recording a midi track or and audio track? ie are you trying to capture the audio from the va76, or just the midi data as you are playing it?
dennis

MIDI. I am trying to record MIDI. i can't record audio.

try having just the midi out from your keyboard connected to your PC, ie NO midi in to the va76 (remove the cable) then set local on on the keyboard and see what happens then....

i pulled out the midi in cable. now there's only the midi out cable in my keyboard and the usb in the compuuter. i go into Cakewalk Sonar, insert a midi track, i press keys on the keyboard [ the local parts are ON because if i turn them off i have no sound ], everything sounds good, no echo. i arm for recording, i record, Don't hear the metronome, and when i play back, i don't have sound in my headphones which are connected to the keyboard. i connected my headphones to the computer and played back, and still no sound.