Keyboard newbie questions...

[MadStrum!]

If I plug a keyboard into the MIDI port of my computer's sound card.... will the software(SONAR) use the sounds produced by the keyboard or the internal soundfont in the sound card when I program stuff using the piano roll? (no I dun have a keyboard yet)

Pier.

[Ethan Winer]

Pier,

> will the software(SONAR) use the sounds produced by the keyboard or the internal soundfont <

It depends where you tell Sonar to send the track's output. If you send the track to the sound card's A or B synth, it will play the SoundFonts. If you send it to the external MIDI port - and connect that port to the keyboard - it will play the sounds in the keyboard.

--Ethan

[MadStrum!]

OK! Thanks a lot.

Pier.

[Dolly]

Many thanks Ethan, This forum will be hearing a lot from us in
the future. Dolly

[MadStrum!]

What is the pitch bend on a keyboard for?

Pier.

[Chriss]

it's there to enable you to "bend" the pitch, i.e. slide it up and down... it works kinda like a wah pedal, but it's not as prominent...

[ServeChilled]

The pitchshifter is effective in trying to recreate strings and brass bits. You've gotta be careful with it though, it can be made to sound very unnatural.

p.s. Doesn't a wah-wah change the frequency.

[Chriss]

aren't you talking about the vibrato thingy?? the modulation wheel??
anyhoo, i don't know how a wah works... i just know it can produce what sounds like a pitch shift... and since shifting the frequency and shifting the pitch is the same thing.... well..

[Krakit]

It is far closer to string bending on the guitar than it is to a wah wah pedal.

Carl

[barefoot]

A wha wha pedal is like a foot controlled resonant filter frequency knob. A Pitch bend wheel is more like a wammy bar.

barefoot