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Does anyone have any experience getting recordings off a Yamaha Arius 162? It has a square USB port on the underneath - I'm guessing I would connect it to my laptop and use some kind of software program?

Thanks
Cathryn

That's one option.
Another is to connect it to the computer via an audio interface connected to one of the headphone sockets.

Do you mean recording the YDP-162 or downloading previously made recordings from from YDP-162?

Audio won't travel over the USB cable in that model but you may be able to download MIDI files via USB.

The "MIDI Basics" and "Computer-related Operations" guides go deeper into the USB features then the main User's Manual:

http://download.yamaha.com/search/result/?site=usa.yamaha.com&language=en&search=YDP-162

As cloth says, you cannot record from the USB port. It does not carry sound.

You can plug into the headphone jack (or the line-out jacks if those exist on your piano), and connect to any sort of audio recorder ... including your computer.

If you're talking about recording your live playing to a computer, the easiest way is probably to connect the YDP162 through a headphone port, on to your computer's mic or Line In port, and record into Audacity.

You'll need a 1/4 inch (6.25 mm) to 1/8 inch (3.5 mm) stereo adapter, since your YDP162, has the bigger size port. Do you use inches or the metric system in Australia? I always forget.

Another possibility is to record through Pianoteq, but then you aren't using the sound of your own piano. The sound then comes from the modelled piano voices of Pianoteq. That is done through the USB cable. You need the full (paid) Pianoteq for a few black keys not to be silenced.

If you're talking about getting what you have already recorded to the internal memory of the YDP162, to your computer's hard disk, then what clothearednincompo said.

When I had my Yamaha P85, I never got the Musicsoft Downloader to work, think that's the software Yamaha offers to transfer recordings from the internal memory of Yamaha digitals to a computer, unless they've come up with something new.

Thanks all for your advice. I want to upgrade my Korg (which is basic but has a lovely action) to something with an onboard metronome and recording capability. Of all the digitals I played I really liked the action on this one (even better than the way more expensive Rolands - they seemed to have quite a heavy action). The YDP-162 does have the big headphone jacks (we're metric in Aus) but that's okay, I can get an adaptor. I think I'm going to buy this one and record via headphone jack - laptop - Audacity.
Thanks again,
Cathryn

You will probably find you need some sort of hardware amplifier between the piano and the laptop to boost the headphone signal.

Just an update for posterity in case others ask this question later....

I ended up buying a Yamaha Arius YDP163 (or YDP-163) - it connects straight from the USB to the laptop, and the recording quality is crystal clear.

Hi cathryn999, congrats on your new piano! Can you clarify what software you use to record on your laptop? I believe the others were correct in stating that usb doesn't carry audio, so you are likely sending midi data to the laptop and then using a software there to generate piano sound, rather than recording your Yahama's native sound.

She's using Pianoteq, according to another thread in the Adult Beginners Forum.

In general USB can also carry Audio data if it works as an audio interface. On many of my roland synths this was true. Novation synths do that as well and I am pretty sure many modern synths too. I think pianos are sold to different user base that in large may not care about USB audio or may not even know how to use it or how to install ASIO etc... so it is both cost cutting and support time cutting measure.