Recent content by icarus

O.K. I'm thinking of getting a power conditioner for my little home studio setup(DAW and a couple synths). My main priority is RFI/EMI filtration and some surge protection. I have pretty decent power in my area and am not worried about brown out protection or being able to run my stuff for...

O.K. I've been trying to record my xv-88 (specifically the piano expansion board) but I just haven't gotten a hot enough signal and I've also gotten some noise. I've got mogami cables and good connectors and the noise is not from the AC. I have been running the line outs straight into my mia...

I have a roland xv-88 and i love it. I have been trying to record the srx-02 piano board, which i also love. the only problem is that i record with the volume on the synth all the up and i think the synth itself is generating noise. i am going to explore a noise isolation filter for my ac...

I'm recording a roland xv-88 using cakewalk on a p4 1.3G with a mia soundcard. Mostly I'm recording lightly layered piano or solo piano with the piano expansion board. This piano board with a few of the xv's effects is exactly the sound i want, but when i record it it is sounding a little bit...

I'd give serious thought to purchasing anything from alesis. i bought monitors that worked for about two weeks and then one stopped powering up. sent them to alesis FIVE MONTHS AGO and have not yet heard a thing from them, despite my persistent calls. I'm not really happy considering i spent...

I'm recording right from my synth into my mia soundcard while running cakewalk. I'm still getting a little noise I'd like to try and eliminate, that I guess is coming from the synth (or maybe better cables would help? -what kind and where?) Anyway, I don't think Cakewalk pa9 has any noise...

Does anyone have any suggestions about recording solo digital piano. I'm recording from a roland xv-88 with piano expansion card into cakewalk on my pentium IV, 640 mb ram system through an echo mia soundcard on balanced inputs. Specifically, I don't really want to go crazy with processing or...

I'm recording from a roland xv-88 into my mia soundcard in cakewalk. I'm getting a little more noise than I would like that i guess is simply coming from the xv-88. I don't see any way to reduce it on recording, so I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to reduce the noise in cakewalk or...

I'm pretty new to using a Roland xv-88 and and surprised I can't find any internet user's groups out there for it. Anyone no of one for the xv-88 or I guess the xv-5080?

Should I even bother recording in 24/96 if my intent is to burn to cd. Right now I am and then converting to 16 bit. I think I'm at least going to change to 24/44.1, but does anyone have any thoughts on what is best for best end result on cd. Sound quality is all I care about here.

Does anyone know where I can download a good free external software mixer that will be compatible with my echo mia soundcard? I need something to push my low levels up, but certainly only need something very basic and good. Any response would be appreciated.

I'm recording solo piano pieces from my xv-88 into cakewalk in 24/96. I've got the mixes sounding the way I want, but when I change the format to 16 bit, mix down and then try to burn to cd, you can hear a distinct sort of high rattle-like sound accompanying each hammer strike. It's not there...

I'm trying to record some solo piano from a roland xv-88 into cakewalk 9. I've got the input on my echo mia soundcard mixer all the way up and the volume on the xv-88 all the way up and i still can't get my level to 0db. I don't want to have to normalize to fix this problem because when i do...

I'm recording a roland xv-88 straight into an echo mia soundcard in cakewalk pro audio 9 on a pentium 4 1.3 gig. Do I need an external mixer? What are the advantages of having one? Right now, I've got the mia input levels cranked b/c i know that's necessary to really reach 24 bit recording...

I burned several tracks that i mixed down to cd tonight for the first time. i was really excited by how good they sounded but they were very quiet. does anyone know how i can avoid this? i don't think my levels were too low.