Deciding Whether or Not Your Keyboard Should Directly Produce Sound

Letting Your Keyboard Locally Produce Sound As You Play

A third configuration alternative is available, as illustrated here:

In this case, your keyboard directly produces the sound for notes as you perform them. You do not activate the "local off" option on your keyboard. Also, you turn off the "echo on" option for your keyboard device. If you do not turn off the "echo on" option, then you will hear each note you perform twice: the note will be played back by your keyboard as well as the other device to which the note is echoed. Worse, if your keyboard is set up as the output device for the echoed notes, then it will be forced to play the notes twice, with unpredictable results.

This third configuration option is somewhat less useful than the previous configuration option (Using Keyboard for Both Input and Output). When you practice or record, you will hear the same thing-- sounds from your keyboard. However, when you later play back the recorded staff, the sound will be played by a different device than that which you heard when you were recording, namely, the keyboard device itself.