Tessila Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Hey, I"m wondering, does anyone know how to transfer a song recorded from a Kurzweil PC4 onto a thumb drive? I"ve looked in the user manual with no luck. I plug the thumb drive into the back of the keyboard, but it doesn"t do anything on the screen. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurztech911 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Hi Tesslia, Here is a quick step by step of saving one select song to USB thumb drive: (Assuming the power is on) Insert a USB thumb drive Press GLOBAL Press FILE Press STORE Press ADVANCED Use the data wheel to select (highlight) your song from the on screen list of objects Press STORE Press OK Give your file a name Press OK Press YES if asked 'Save Dependent Objects' (Manual reference pg.9-16 through 9-21) I hope this helps. Any questions, please contact me here: support@kurzweil.com Quote Jean Robert Bellefeuille Manager of Technical and Customer Support Kurzweil Music Systems support at kurzweil dot com www.kurzweil.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werno Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 I see Kurzweil support has already given you an answer that was covered in the manual for how to save your song as a PC4 file. I assumed you were trying to export a Standard MIDI file; I recall having trouble finding this function when I first got my PC3, I'm not sure why Kurzweil's manuals are coy about how to do this. I can't imagine with they haven't included the ability to save and load SMFs. If that's what you're trying to do, then I agree it isn't in the manual, a search of the online PDF found no reference to 'smf', 'standard midi file', or 'export'. If you can't find it among the file storage menus, it's probably tucked away in song mode somewhere. Good luck. Another interpretation of your question is that you're hoping the PC4 can poot out a wav file of a song. I'm not aware of it having that capability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessila Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 Thanks for the helpful replies. I was able to transfer a file to the thumb drive, but now I'm puzzled as to how I'd convert it from a .pc4 to an .mp3 file. Is that possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Beaumont Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 If your looking for a recording the .pc4 is not that. The .pc4 file is a set of program instructions for telling the PC4 how to create the song. To record the song you need a computer or some other device capable of recording the audio directly. You could take the output from the PC4 playing the song and using an adapter connect to the microphone input of the computer making sure the level is appropriate and use a program like Audacity. Or even better use an audio interface, there are several USB audio interface that are low cost and and provide very good quality sound. Or record the output directly into a small field recorder such as Zoom H1n Quote Boards: Kurzweil SP-6, Roland FA-08, VR-09, DeepMind 12 Modules: Korg Radias, Roland D-05, Bk7-m & Sonic Cell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felis Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Kurzweil sequencers record midi, not audio. Your .pc4 song file that you saved is a midi data file. You can't directly convert a .pc4 file to an .mp3 file. like Toano88 says, you will need to record the audio from the PC4's audio outputs. There's many ways to do it. What the .pc4 song file does when you hit play, is to give the PC4 all the info it needs to play back what you've recorded into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessila Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 Okay, I see. Thank you, guys, for your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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