



I would have preferring one with more built-in features, such as recording! I need to make the one I have work if at all possible. Simply buying a new MIDI keyboard is not financially viable for me, or I never would have bought a 30-year-old Clavinova 5 years ago. Lag? Choppiness? Pausing and then rushing forward? I don't know if it's more likely the laptop's processor, or the cable/interface, or the Clavinova that caused this issue, but one problem at a time: I need to make it work at all, before I worry about the quality (though I'd welcome any suggestions). The one file I saved from NCH Mixpad had a lot of timing issues when I played it back in a DAW. My MIDI to USB cable/interface is 5 or so years old and I think I paid about $30 I do not know the brand.

I downloaded Coolsoft MIDI Mapper, as suggested by a YouTube video, and it did not make any difference. What do you think? Do I need a separate MIDI interface box? Or just a higher-end, Yamaha-branded MIDI to USB cable with an inline interface? It has been suggested (in another thread on this forum) that I buy a more expensive cable with an in-line interface however, the Clavinova CLP-30 has a very limited MIDI implementation, which may be why it works with my 16-year-old version of Finale but not with contemporary DAWs and sequencers. (Finale 2004 is running on a Windows 7 laptop, as apparently it is not compatible with Windows 10.) I have Finale 2004, which recognizes the Clavinova and works OK, and, out of hundreds of tries, I got NCH Mixpad to work only twice, and as far as I can tell, I did nothing differently the 2 times it actually worked, and could not get it to work again after many additional tries. My Clavinova is not recognized by most of the DAWs and sequencers I have downloaded. I have a MIDI to USB cable with a small inline box as a MIDI interface, and I wonder if a separate MIDI interface would help bridge the gap between the legacy hardware and the Windows 10 laptop. I have a 35-year-old Yamaha Clavinova CLP-30 MIDI electric piano.
