Okay, so, here's what I do have...it is a long one, so you might want to sit down...
A keyboard can be a MIDI controller. Nowadays, that can be done via the USB port, a MIDI to USB converter seems obsolete as far as I know...well, the
Origin25 by Miditech seems to do it that way, my
SIEL DK80 still needs one...
Anyway...
So, somehow, you hook that to a PC. Have an OS on that thing, I have a
Mepis on one for the synth work...(
zynaddsubfx and
amsynth) and
Debian on the one for the sampler (Specimen, it was the one I got up n running). Both have QJackCTTL on there too...have to, it's the better option...
so, with one PC dedicated to synths, and an other do samples, the next bit is a mixer...I use the soundcraft EPM6...
All hooked up in there, the next step is recording it...
I use (yet) an other PC (Xubuntu this time) and Audacity, while Ardour is the better option, it eats CPU on that humble PC
Modus operandi:
Per PC: start QJackCTL and an instrument. Open the patchbay and hook the controlled (keyboard) the the instrument...
Select a sound on the instrument and test by hitting the keys. If the record PC is active, something should be heared...otherwise...set the sliders on the mixer... :P
The rest...id inspiration (best found on a sunday morning
for me)
Hit the record on Audacity...and...well...ya get the drift
Hope that gets someone going to play some..and get it on Soundcloud
Thor