Midi Connection for PSR 280

[Normanfernandez]

I want to make a Connection from my PSR 280 to my Computer / PSR 770.

I have a Option to Get a Midi Cable to USB. 
Also I've seen Audio Interface with Midi ports. 

I'm also in need for a Audio Interface.

Will the Audio Interface that had Midi
Solve my Problem?

[SeaGtGruff]

Yes, a USB audio interface that has MIDI In/Out ports should let you send/receive MIDI data between the PSR-280 and the computer.

[Normanfernandez]

Yes, a USB audio interface that has MIDI In/Out ports should let you send/receive MIDI data between the PSR-280 and the computer.

I'm not sure if this would be possible
To Recording the Midi out
If I play songs on the keyboard.

[SeaGtGruff]

If you're referring to recording the keyboard's MIDI output while playing back songs on the keyboard, I think it depends on the situation.

Many Yamaha "beginner" models have three different functions for choosing the types of MIDI data that you want the keyboard to output-- Keyboard Out, which is used to enable/disable MIDI output of the notes you play on the keyboard; Style Out, which is used to enable/disable MIDI output of the accompaniment data as you play a style on the keyboard; and Song Out, which is used to enable/disable MIDI output of the song data as you play back a song on the keyboard.

The "advanced" models have more sophisticated settings for choosing the types of MIDI data that you want the keyboard to output.

However, Yamaha protects the built-in songs from being copied, so even if you have the keyboard set to output the MIDI data for the song parts, the keyboard will not send any MIDI data to its MIDI Out port as you play back a built-in song. On the other hand, you should be able to output the MIDI data from any User Songs that you've recorded on the keyboard. I don't know whether the keyboard will output the MIDI data from external MIDI song files.

As for the PSR-280, it's an old model that didn't have those three functions mentioned above (Keyboard Out, Style Out, and Song Out), nor did it have advanced MIDI settings such as are found on the PSR-S, Tyros, and Genos models. I honestly don't know whether it will send MIDI data to its MIDI Out port as you play back a song; you'll just have to try it and see.

The Owner's Manual does mention that you can use the Bulk Dump operation to save your User Songs to an external device, but I don't know what format the data will be in. I suspect that it might be in a format that's somewhat similar to what's described in the following article:

http://rnhart.net/articles/bulk-dump.htm