Windows 10: Should a digital piano with a USB output be detected by Win7 as a sound input?

It being detected in Device Manager just fine. I was hoping it would be considered a sound input though and show up under Control Panel, Sound, Recording. I have Disabled Devices and Disconnected Devices to display of course. Would it show up somewhere else? How can I use it as a sound input without using something complex like Fruity Loops?

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Playback detecting Input Devices & Recording detecting Output Devices

Hello!

Today, I was playing SCP: Secret Laboratory. After I finished, I went and made tea. When I came back much later to play some more, I found that the in-game voice chat was not working for me; my microphone was not transmitting in-game.
Looking into my Steam settings, I found that all my input devices were actually my output devices, and all my output devices were actually input devices. I initially thought this was an issue with Steam, so I restarted Steam and my PC.
However, when the problem did not resolve, I looked to my sound settings and found that even in there, my playback devices detected inputs as outputs and recording devices detected outputs as inputs.

How am I able to fix this problem?

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The VoiceMeeter inputs and outputs are from a sound managing device called VoiceMeeter Banana that I installed to allow for the creation of virtual line ins.

 

Microphone Detected but no sound input detected

- My PC has 2 3.5mm microphone jack inputs
- Upon plugging any (tested on other devices) microphones into these jacks, my pc detects that they have been plugged in

- However, when speaking, no sound input is detected

- I have tried ALL options mentioned in this thread Microphone detected but no input sound - Microsoft Community in 2018, the author of which appeared to have the same (unsolved) problem as I.
- Sound input is detected fine from USB microphones

 

Need to record piano music onto Laptop

What is a "54 keyboard piano" ?

Is that a digital piano?
If so, skip the microphone.
Take the line outputs from the piano and run them into the line inputs of your PC.
Then record with Audacity.

If it's an acoustic piano ...
It takes a professional to record ANYTHING well.
And piano is especially difficult to record.
And you'll need microphones FAR better than those mentioned above.
Lacking that, forget it.