Need help with hooking up delay pedal to Yamaha CP33

[Kosmische]

I recently bought a delay pedal - a Line 6 DL4 - on eBay but amn't sure how to connect it.

I'm using a Yamaha CP33 as a piano and controller and get sound from my PC speakers via USB connected to my laptop. I do have an audio interface but have already had to post another thread about help with that so don't know if the pedal needs to be connected to this.

Sorry, as I keep saying I really am a total novice.

[BJG145]

It kind of depends what you want to achieve. Eg, you could simply run the audio of the keyboard through the delay into the computer or amp. Or, you could use it to process a sound generated within the computer via MIDI...see here:

http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showf ... ost1086402

Either way, if you're going via Reaper, you'll probably find it easiest to use a plug-in like "ReaDelay" instead.

http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/

[BJG145]

By the way, are you using the speaker built into your laptop...? I really think the best way to set things up would be:

1) Connect the Steinberg MI4 to the laptop
2) Connect the audio output from the keyboard to the MI4 if you want to use its sounds
3) Connect MIDI output from the keyboard to the MI4 to play your virtual instruments
4) Configure Reaper to use the MI4's ASIO driver and MIDI ports
5) Get some decent speakers to plug into the MI4

Optional:

a) Use the delay pedal either between the audio output of the keyboard and the MI4 if you just want to hear delay on the keyboard's own sounds, or wire it up as a "send effect" as described in the above link if you want to use it on virtual instruments. But personally I think this is more trouble than it's worth and you'd be better off using "ReaDelay" or similar. Hardware delay pedals are more for live performance than recordings these days, unless it's a pretty special pedal.

b) Connecting up the MI4 to the keyboard's MIDI input with a second MIDI lead would allow you to record MIDI, edit as required, then play back through the keyboard and record its audio output, if you want to use its sounds.

[Kosmische]

Thanks again BJG. That'll each me to not read threads on Gearslutz more carefully...I'd just searched for using effects pedals with a keyboard and found a recommendation from a keyboard player for the pedal I went for.

For the time being, I'd prefer to use my PC speakers which for what they are, are actually not bad at all. These are external speakers but plugged into my laptop or PC.

So, I have a laptop,external speakers, a Yamaha CP33 with no internal speakers,an audio interface, and the pedal.

How do I configure all that? I don't know how to add a pic of the rear of the pedal showing the inputs/outputs but it looks like two sets of standard 1/4 inch jacks each marked as 'Mono L -input- R'.

[Exalted Wombat]

That'll each me to not read threads on Gearslutz more carefully...

I don't think that's quite what you meant to say! But you're right. Gearslutz is like the British Daily Mirror newspaper (or, I'm told, Fox News in the USA). The truth is sometimes in there. But it's filtered through and buried under a whole pile of agendas and misconceptions. Start from the basis that anyone posting on Gearslutz is mad and you won't go far wrong!