There’s a chance that the headphone won’t “activate” the input like an actual microphone. If Windows doesn’t see it, Audacity can’t see it. If you don’t see the external “microphone” it as an option in Audacity, right click the Windows speaker/volume icon and then click on Recording Devices. Then it should show-up as an external microphone. Plug into the mic input before starting Windows. So it only records through the internal microphone in my laptop. Most laptop computers only have mic-level inputs, so in order to get good quality recordings with a laptop you usually need an external USB audio interface with line inputs. If your drums have an analog headphone output and your computer has a line-input you CAN record the analog with Audacity. With high quality virtual instruments, it can sound like expensive drums/cymbals, or it doesn’t have to sound like drums at all!

The generated sound depends on your virtual instruments (in software). If you’re using MIDI software to capture/record the MIDI messages, the sound you get won’t be exactly the same as what you’re getting from your drums. MIDI sends note, timing, and velocity (loudness) messages to the MIDI software (or MIDI instrument) and the computer/instrument generates the sound. These devices work with digital audio streams.

Sorry, but Audacity is an audio program, not a MIDI program.Īudacity will work with a USB microphone or a USB mixer. Yamaha DTX400K drum kit which I want to record covers and drum sounds on through Audacity…

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