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So basically what you are saying is use the piano like any other intstrument and not MIDI.
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No, in order to hear the Patches (sounds) of the Piano you must feed the Audio Outputs to your Digi hardware Inputs.
See to the piano, in a fashion, it can't differentiate between either you playing or Pro Tools telling the piano to play. The electronics (the brains) of a digital piano are being triggered either by you, by pressing the keys (triggering Samples) or you programming Pro Tools to trigger Samples, either by playing the piano sending MIDI Data for Pro Tools to record for playback with either the piano or a Virtual Instrument or programming Pro Tools free hand (Pencil tool). It's all the same to the piano. So... if you don't have the Outputs of the piano connected to your Digi hardware, it'll just play straight out of the speakers on the piano, because that's the end of the signal path as far as it's concerned. So...
Since your using the piano in this fashion using the piano's MIDI capabilities, the piano than becomes what is known as an external MIDI device (sound module) and Pro Tools requires an audio input from that external MIDI device in order to playback the pre-recorded MIDI data, if you want to either hear this performance through Pro Tools or record this performance to 'Audio' for further processing.
Sweet?
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