This isn’t quite as convenient as if your instrument could send both audio and MIDI over USB, but it’s still easy to work with. Many MIDI instruments that have USB ports will only send and receive MIDI data over USB. Recording a MIDI Instrument with USB MIDI Only This allows for the most flexible use of your MIDI instrument possible - you can record it, edit the recorded MIDI notes, and then hear the resulting edited audio coming back from your instrument. You’ll want to set up an instrument track to record and play back the MIDI data from your instrument, and to accept the audio input coming from the USB audio connection as well.

Then make sure that your DAW sees the USB ports of your instrument as both audio and MIDI devices. First, connect the USB port on your instrument to a USB port on your computer. If your MIDI instrument has a USB port that can both send and receive MIDI and audio data, you’re in luck! Recording this device will be a breeze. Recording a MIDI Instrument with USB Audio and MIDI Here are ways you can record your MIDI instrument, depending on the features. And just as software instruments keep getting better, hardware MIDI instruments have never been better or more affordable. That said, there’s something special about performing on a synthesizer or MIDI instrument with its own sound engine that’s difficult, if not impossible, to capture in software.

There are lots of software virtual instruments out there some emulate hardware instruments, and others offer completely new sounds. It has never been as easy to stay “in the box” as it is now.

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