Midi instrument sound

hows everybody doing?
My midi is a yahama keyboard and I am able to create beats and make songs through the sounds of the logic instruments. I'm having trouble since I don't know how to get the midi instrument sounds recorded onto logic pro. I can record the notes from the keyboard but I just can't get the instrumental sound from it. Also I was wondering how you are able to rip a song apart. I know how to put the song file into logic, but I dont know how to take for an example: the lyrics, away from the beat, or the drums, etc. Somebody please help, this would be very much appreciated. Thank You.

If you want the actual sounds of your yamaha to be recorded into logic, you need to connect its audio output to your audio interface so that the sound from the keyboard can come into logic and be monitored and/or recorded. do a search on external instruments in your pdf manual for more info.
as for 'ripping a song apart', you can't do that with any software, hardware or magic wand. the only way to get the individual tracks of a song as separate tracks is to get them from the original multitrack recording. if you are a remixer and a record label asks you to do a remix and gives you the parts, then you're in luck. or you might find something on the internet (probably not legal so beware)..
there is one karaoke-style phase trick you can do to reduce the volume or sometimes eliminate the vocal (and anything else that is precisely in the centre of the stereo image) but this is a gimmicky thing, it won't achieve what you are after.

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