I have not, but it should be no different than any other MIDI instrument. Connect it with a MIDI cable and off you go. It will work just as expected.

It's not, so far.

The problem I see it that it will sound really odd if you try to play back the midi info on some other device.

Best to play back on the FR-18.
-DP

I'm just trying to chart some stuff I'm writing, rather than trying to enter it all manually into a piano roll. The sound is not what I'm after.

On some equipment (Such as the Alesis Synthesizers)
you need to turn-on the GEN MIDI (general midi)
setting on your controlling device. Else no
communication occurs.

As long as you stick with general midi settings, you
should be able to record/playback on any midi device,
but as Dana has pointed out, playback will only be
"correct' on the FR-18.

Programs such as Cakewalk (AKA Sonar) will let you
print what you've captured in midi onto staff.

So will programs such as the Finale suite of software.

Beware .. there are numerous tricks to make what you
had actually played, appear coherent on sheet music
print out.

The midi capture will be more literate than you want.

Sheet music uses many metaphors to make it readable.
Prepare thyself for a learning curve

--biggy

Did you RTFM? Using the right cable?

It ain't rocket surgery.

Using a USB cable. Yes, RTFM.

I think there's something up with my computer. Said it could see the FR-18, but not open it.

One would assume you might want to use the MIDI cable into the MIDI input on the FR-18...

I think the USB port on the FR-18 is designed to receive a memory stick to transfer keyboard setups and other customization tweaks. Pretty sure you want to use the FR-19's midi out with an appropriate cable into your computer's sound card or other hosted midi in to trigger recording software. I think you'll end up running the software synth in that computer program, using the FR-18 as the input device (controller). I tried it once with Reason, and it worked as a midi controller with that type of setup.

Boy, dat dam dere midi woik lahk a chahm when you use de rat cable. Dat Cox cable and diddly.

I might try that next, but the manual says either the midi or the USB will accomplish the same thing.

Given that insight, I just RTFM again, and I think I was the victim of my perpetual skimming when I read. I'll try the MIDI cable. I thought they did the same thing, even after skimming several times.

I'll give further progress on how effing witless I can be.

Holy horsefeathers. Are you guys rambling on about Cajun music pumped off through some digital cables and junk?!

It rally j'aint ceux compleucated....

Make music not technical support issues (my wife always said). Okay, so she said LOVE was like music. Zat count?

Midi. Bassi. Trebli... That's how we see it down in Houma.

I'm from Houma. How long you been there? how old are you? what high school did you go to? Just wondering if we ran in the same crowds.

Knowing your real name might be useful in figuring too.

Sorry I meant "they" and not "we". My computer auto corrects if I type "te" it inserts "we" and I probably forgot the "h" in "they" so it saw it as "we" and not what it should've inserted which was "they". I helped run food stand at the Shrimp and Petrol Fest in Morgan City once. Met this dude from there named Faryl Dupuis. Funniest SOB I ever met in my life.