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Peterws, a splitter cable of some sort crossed my mind, but how do you do it? Can you play from your computer an audio file, MP3, WAV, M4A,..., through the splitter, and directly into your headphones? Or does the audio go through your piano first? If it's through the piano, is it loud enough, and free from hum, distortions, clipping and such? Dmd, I was wondering about the same thing. The Ringway is obviously not the most popular digital in the world, but I found this Dutch website, and the only connections mentioned there, are two headphone inputs, Line out, MIDI In/Out, and USB MIDI. Nothing about wireless/Bluetooth, or anything of that sort. http://zuidnederlandpianos.nl/collectie/digitale-pianos/ringway_mp-8820
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I just looked up the Yamaha DGX 650 manual, and it DOES have a USB-to-PC terminal, so there.
Alternately you just plug it with audio jack to your line-in on PC. Use a splitter if needed, as Peter said.
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I just looked up the Yamaha DGX 650 manual, and it DOES have a USB-to-PC terminal, so there.
Alternately you just plug it with audio jack to your line-in on PC. Use a splitter if needed, as Peter said.
But does it do audio over the USB, or just MIDI?
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USB-Computer is MIDI only. USB stick can do .wav
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Peterws, a splitter cable of some sort crossed my mind, but how do you do it? Can you play from your computer an audio file, MP3, WAV, M4A,..., through the splitter, and directly into your headphones? Or does the audio go through your piano first? If it's through the piano, is it loud enough, and free from hum, distortions, clipping and such?
0 Only way is to try. I can play (haha) electric bass thro` the piano without issues but when I introduce the audio from the computer into the splitter, it kills the stereo stone dead, diminishing the sound (bass g`tar is mono). It`s also about impedance; it`s better pn balance for me to use an ext amp which will handle each input separately.
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The Ringway definitely has an audio interface built-in because as soon as you plug the USB cable to the computer a new "audio device" appears (just like when you connect an external USB audio interface). So when I said "no cables" I meant without AUDIO cables, just the USB.
Unfortunately it seems this is not standard to digital pianos and at least the DGX doesn't do it. The USB to PC is only meant to transfer MIDI data, not AUDIO, since it doesn't have an audio interface built-in.
I tried connecting a miniplug from the laptop headphones output to the aux in of the DGX but the sound quality is not good.
I'll get myself a 2i2 and that's it.
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I tried connecting a miniplug from the laptop headphones output to the aux in of the DGX but the sound quality is not good.
I'll get myself a 2i2 and that's it. Hope you succeed; I found the headphone socket invaluable and worked well in the 650 and every other piano I`ve had, it`s stereo minijack each end.
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The Ringway definitely has an audio interface built-in because as soon as you plug the USB cable to the computer a new "audio device" appears (just like when you connect an external USB audio interface). So when I said "no cables" I meant without AUDIO cables, just the USB.
Unfortunately it seems this is not standard to digital pianos and at least the DGX doesn't do it. The USB to PC is only meant to transfer MIDI data, not AUDIO, since it doesn't have an audio interface built-in.
I tried connecting a miniplug from the laptop headphones output to the aux in of the DGX but the sound quality is not good.
I'll get myself a 2i2 and that's it. As mentioned earlier, the laptop soundcard may be of poor quality. Using a 2i2 is a good idea.
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