Hi.
I play with a guy who plays his own bass on the keyboard and uses an SR16 for drums. We want to use his GM keyboard and be able to use all my songs that I have on floppy disks in the GM midi format. I play with another person and this is what we do. This other person uses a Yamaha Clavinova, which has the built in disk drive, and a great midi module built in. This other guy uses a yamaha S80 keyboard, which does not have a drive built in, and isn't even GM compatible, (though we have another GM keyboard, but no disk drive).
We are looking for a cheap sequencer or midi filer so that I can use all my songs that I have on floppy disk. We realize we can buy a lower end laptop with a usb connection, and then get one of those usb midi connections mrom midiman, but this will still run us around 300 bucks, and we are poor musicians. Is ther any other options for us that might be in the 100 dollar range?
He also has a Korg M1 keyboard I think, and it has a floppy drive in it, but I don't think this is GM compatible, is it? If my midi songs have been setup in Sonar, which I have and use for this, would the korg be able to play these GM midi files, and send the proper midi signals out to a GM compatible keyboard? Even though the Korg is not GM compatible for it's own sounds? Would it simply passs the GM patch numbers through to the GM module and keep everything working properly? Does Sonar have a Korg M1 patch map that would allow me to setup the instruments for the M1 and simply use it?
God, any help would be appreciated.
Jeff
I play with a guy who plays his own bass on the keyboard and uses an SR16 for drums. We want to use his GM keyboard and be able to use all my songs that I have on floppy disks in the GM midi format. I play with another person and this is what we do. This other person uses a Yamaha Clavinova, which has the built in disk drive, and a great midi module built in. This other guy uses a yamaha S80 keyboard, which does not have a drive built in, and isn't even GM compatible, (though we have another GM keyboard, but no disk drive).
We are looking for a cheap sequencer or midi filer so that I can use all my songs that I have on floppy disk. We realize we can buy a lower end laptop with a usb connection, and then get one of those usb midi connections mrom midiman, but this will still run us around 300 bucks, and we are poor musicians. Is ther any other options for us that might be in the 100 dollar range?
He also has a Korg M1 keyboard I think, and it has a floppy drive in it, but I don't think this is GM compatible, is it? If my midi songs have been setup in Sonar, which I have and use for this, would the korg be able to play these GM midi files, and send the proper midi signals out to a GM compatible keyboard? Even though the Korg is not GM compatible for it's own sounds? Would it simply passs the GM patch numbers through to the GM module and keep everything working properly? Does Sonar have a Korg M1 patch map that would allow me to setup the instruments for the M1 and simply use it?
God, any help would be appreciated.
Jeff