Hi Roy,
I am so glad you have come up with that explanation. I was at my wits end trying to fathom out why you didn't have a stereo recording. I know Brian had said it's not important, just carry on as you are. But it was more than just having your recording coming out as 'two track mono'. The point was that your recording was missing
all the signal from one channel,
which isn't just a repeat of the left channel .. it has the sounds that are only (or predominantly) on that other channel. So the resulting overall sound was incomplete. And I did think that your keyboard must be faulty, as the S970 is a really good 'upmarket' keyboard which gives superb recordings. I was going to say to you that you need to get your keyboard looked at as you need to have a 100% functioning keyboard in order to get the best out of it! And what is the point in spending money on a keyboard if it isn't working as it should?
As an 'aside', the first organ I had was a Farfisa Balmoral. It had it's own 'internal' Leslie speaker, and when I tried it in the shop it had just the sound I wanted. So after much deliberation, I bought it (new) and had it delivered to my house, and they set it up for me. Obviously not the one I had been playing in the shop, but a 'new' one. After playing it for a bit I realised that something about the organ was not quite right, and it was to do with the Rhythm section. It sounded as if the drummer only had half a drum kit. So I went back down to the shop to listen to the organ they had in there again. Completely different! So they came back up to my house to check my organ .. and agreed it was faulty. And this was a
new organ! Of course it was still under guarantee, so they replaced the whole organ for me, and apologised profusely. I was so glad I had persevered with it. I didn't use the drum section much in those days (I was an
organ player) and could easily just not have bothered about it.
I know you have put up another recording (O Mein Papa) on both TDP and Eileen's site. I didn't want to make any comments on your post as I realised immediately that you had another recording in MONO. But would like to show you what your recording looks like by putting it in this Topic where we have been discussing all this. From the waveform below, once again the two green 'volume' bars run together, and if you look closely at the left and right channels you can see they are both exactly the same. Your keyboard will be giving out different waveforms for the left and right channels if it is functioning correctly. And by the way, I can see you have got Audacity set up correctly (ie. as Stereo and not Mono) is it says so on the left of the waveform.
Fingers crossed with your new lead!
I have heard from Peter Walker who says he has sent you 'step by step instructions' on how to record Audio direct to a Memory Stick in your keyboard. This of course would cut out having to use
any lead. Can you forward on to me the email he sent you (to
hugh@ar-group.org)? Just want to make sure the instructions I put up for you are correct (although Pete may have explained it better than me!).
Hugh