Hi Zinnia -
The chap I helped had a Yamaha synth which he used for gigs, so in addition to the usual Midi In and Midi out jacks he a stereo Line out which he used with his PA system.
Does your Roland have standard L & R Line Out jacks? These are different from the possible Midi connections that you might have, namely: In, Out, and Thru.
The easiest solution is if your Roland piano has audio Line Out. If it has then this is what you do.
1. (Assuming that your piano has standard RCA connectors) get a Y-patch cable from radio shack, it will have 2 RCA leads that tie into a mini (1/8") stereo jack.
2. Connect the mini jack to the Line In on your sound card.
3. Start MJ and select Tools/Record Sound/Options. Make sure the proper Recording Device and Recording Source are selected then click Auto and follow the instruction to set your recording level.
4. After setting the record level you have to decide about the other settings in the dialog. My friend's synth has a floppy disk drive and he can playback as many tracks as he wants but he can also set the gap between tracks.
If you have a similar setup and can playback multiple files then Enable "Automatic track splitting" and Enable "Trim silence from gaps". Just make sure the "Minimum gap between tracks" is less than the gap that your piano is using. If your piano uses a 2 sec. gap then use 1800 as your setting.
5. Don't Enable "Wait for sound..."
6. Now select the "File Naming and Location" tab at the left and set your Output location to the folder of your choice.
7. Click OK and fill in the Artist/Album info.
8. Now click "Record" and start playback of your Midi files.
9. When you're finished import the wave files into MJ, use the Properties dialog to name your tracks and add any additional info you might want and click save.
10. Select the files, Tools/Write/Options set the gap between tracks and your write speed. Don't use 1x for writting, I recommend you use 2X or 4X (I've read a number of articles that advise against using higher write speeds and I'm a wimp) - after all you've been thru to create your music and get it onto the computer why risk a bad burn?
If you have any more questions, post them and I'll try to help.
cheers
gvag
Some links you may find helpful:
http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/http://www.verysimple.com/midi/index.htmlhttp://www.midi-classics.com/whatmidi.htm