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    Laptop Direct Box Help

    Hello everyone! I use my laptop with my TrapKat percussion midi controller. I'm wanting to play "live" using a powered speaker system. When the laptop is plugged in for power I have awful interference, but when I unplug the laptop it goes away. I'm assuming that I need a direct box. What I need...
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    Laptop Latency Issues - Help Needed

    I finally got a chance to try some of your suggestions and when I got looked in Reason in the audio preferences there is a control panel for the audio card. And in there I was able to lower the buffer size to 256 from 512 and that fixed the problem. I can play my drum controller as fast as I...
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    Laptop Latency Issues - Help Needed

    I can do a gliss on the midi keyboard, and to me it sounds like every note is playing. I use an E-Mu 5000 hardware sampler with the drum controller and it keeps up with every single note just fine.
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    Laptop Latency Issues - Help Needed

    I can't do the rolls as fast on the keyboard. On the drum controller I can use sticks and I'm faster with sticks. The music software I'm using is Reason 2.5.
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    Laptop Latency Issues - Help Needed

    I have a Dell Laptop that is a few years old. Here are the specs: - P3 1 GHZ - 256 MB SDRAM - 20 GB HD - Windows 2000 I recently added: - MidiSport 2x2 USB - Echo Indigo I/O Soundcard - Reason 2.5 The system works great with my midi keyboard, but when I use my TrapKat (a midi percussion...
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    Multisampled Drum Samples

    I'm looking at some drum sample CDs for my E-Mu E5000 sampler and I have a few questions. Some say that they are "multisampled with both left and right hand grip, from hard to soft hits." One goes on to say "Each sample has 2 different stereo samples, one is the drum itself (with all the other...
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    Digital Recording

    I am wanting to purchase a hard disc multitrack recorder, but I'm not sure what to get. I don't want to use a compter because I want something that is portable. Here are my needs: - at least 4 simultaneous inputs at a time - a hard drive or other media that will record for at least 30 minutes...
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