I received an interesting question from a reader, posted on June 1st, asking the following:

“I have a Mac laptop and a DGX Yamaha keyboard. I would like to copy some of the keyboard music styles on a CD ROM for a friend to play on a CD player away at his home. How can this be done? Any advice would be appreciated.”

As the purpose here is to listen to a CD on a CD player, we are talking about audio recording, and not MIDI.

The easiest option is to connect the audio outputs of the keyboard to the audio input of the laptop, and use the free recording software Audacity, which runs on Mac OS X (as well as Windows and Linux).

To download Audacity, go to http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

After that, it’s only a matter of burning the recorded audio to CD. Audacity allows you to save the audio in several formats, including WAV, AIFF, and MP3. For CD, choose WAV or AIFF. Then it’s down to your MAC to burn it to CD. As I do not have a Mac myself, I’m not too sure what the process is but i guess Mac users will be able to find plenty of information about this on the web.

I hope that helps

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