Normally you can get MIDI sound through your computer system by selecting a MIDI device in the computer as shown at the image below.
Configure in Windows Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Multimedia > Audio
(From a Danish Windows 2000 - other versions and languages looks similar)
Some common problems
No playback in Java software programs
If the setup for some reason does not work with my Java based software programs:
• Get a soundbank from the Download Page at Sun Microsystems.
• Download one of the soundbanks to the program folder.
• Rename the downloaded soundbank to "soundbank.gm"
Vista / Windows 7 does not support MIDI setup
If you can not setup MIDI in Vista / Windows 7:
• Get a MIDI Mapper form Windows Vista MIDI-Mapper
• Or from Vista MIDI Control Panel
If you want to use your keyboard for MIDI playback; you got to connect the keyboard to the computer; install a Yamaha driver and configure the driver.
Using the keyboard USB port
• Connect your computer and the keyboard with the "USB" cable which comes with your keyboard (or buy one).
• Install the USB MIDI Driver supplied with your keyboard. If you don't have it; get it from Yamaha.
Using the keyboard To Host terminal
• Connect your keyboard and your PC with the "To Host" cable which comes with your keyboard (or buy one). If you don't have a free COM Port at your PC, read below.
• Install the Yamaha CBX driver supplied with your keyboard. If you don't have it; get it from Yamaha.
• Be sure to set the switch at the rear side of your keyboard's "To Host" terminal to: PC2. Read the section about To Host terminal in your manual, if you are in doubt.
• In Windows Start > Settings > Control Panel > Sounds and Multimedia > Audio
• Change the "MIDI Music Playback - Preferred device" to
- when using the keyboard USB port: "USB MIDI Driver".
- when using the keyboard To Host terminal: "Yamaha CBX A Driver".
• Close the Audio window and Control Panel.
• MIDI playback should now be through your keyboard.
Note: This paragraph is not relevant when the keyboard USB port is used.
Using the keyboard To Host terminal
• You need a free COM Port for the "To Host" cable.
• Most stationary computers have only one of these (which is often used by other devices, e.g. a modem); and many laptops don't have a COM Port at all.
If you have no COM Port at your PC
• Insert an extra card into your computer to get a COM Port.
or
• Use an USB Port if you have one of these (read below).
If you have no free COM Port at your PC
• Insert an extra card into your computer to get an extra COM Port.
or
• Plug and unplug the two cables which have to share the only COM Port. Don't plug or unplug while the computer is running.
or
• Use an USB Port if you have one of these (read below).
If you have an USB port at your PC
• Get a USB to Serial Port Converter cable, e.g TU-S9 from TRENDnet.
• Plug the cable in the USB port.
• Windows will start the "Install new Hardware" wizard.
• Insert the CD supplied with the cable into your CD drive - and install the driver for the cable.
• Now your computer has a/an extra COM Port.
• Configure the Yamaha CBX Driver in Windows Start > Settings > Control Panel > Yamaha CBX Driver
• Select COM Port for the driver. If a computer has a COM Port this is by default COM1. Then choose COM3 for the Yamaha CBX Driver.
(From Windows 2000 - other versions looks similar)
• Restart the computer.
• Due to some incompatibility you have to change the CBX driver entry in the Windows Registry if you install the CBX driver while running Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or 4.
• Read Mark Hirst's article on this subject - and be careful when correcting this problem.