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Hi, May I suggest first of all, if you haven't already done this, that you download the manuals for Halion SE 3 and for the orchestra from VST user manuals. They're available in html and pdf from there. I tend to download the pdf ones and print out the relevenat parts for reference. You'll find...

My suspicion is that the cheap MIDI to USB converter is messing things up. Roland has been around long enough to know how MIDI works and to implement it correctly. (They were one of the companies who created the MIDI standard way back in the early eighties.) Genuine Note Off commands, i.e...

It helps to understand that most of the samples that a MIDI instrument plays will be tuned to ET (Equal Temperament). Even if the samples weren't exactly correct to start with they're 'tweaked' to be correct. Then it helps to know that ET isn't 'pure'. Tuning is done using what's known as the...

Just to add my 2d (or two cents, if you will). Many years ago I worked in the aircraft industry in the field of electronics. In wiring up aircraft with cable lengths going from cockpit to tailplane in large commercial airliners, in the main we used crimp connectors NOT soldered connections. A...

Have you taken a look at the Behringer FCB1010?

You don't say whether the MIDI controller is also a keyboard, and whether you want to 'play' the sounds. However, it's fair to say that there is very little 'latency' involved with MIDI regardless of whether it's via USB or e.g. PCI. As has been said above, the quality of the drivers does make a...

Er, If you want the MIDI notes on channel 2 from the E70 sent through the TG500 shouldn't you be using the 'thru' on the TG to the 'in' on the Roland quad capture? The notes don't go 'in' to 'out', but 'in' to 'thru'. Try that. John.

There is much to be said for "if you want to play piano, buy a piano", but as you've said, with space restrictions a keyboard may be the only practical way. You should be able to get away with learning on a 61 or better much better a 76 key instrument with fully weighted keys. As long as you...

If it really is piano you want to learn, not just keyboard, then a fully weighted key action is what you need so that it actually feels something like playing a real piano. It may seem a minor point but actually using a semi weighted or synth type keyboard won't give you the response of a piano...

The simplest method IMHO is to buy e.g. Garritan's GPO4 (personal Orchestra version 4). It comes with a sample library of all common orchestral instruments, but also including e.g. a harpsichord and church organ. Included is the sample player ARIA in three versions, the first is stand alone...

Interesting thread, and it's something I've been trying to do 'successfully' for some time with orchestral tracks, where 'the beat' is not easily detectable. I tried Reaper, but I find it difficult to use (I'm getting old). The other program I've been more successful with (little talked about...

Not entirely true I'm afraid! The speed of USB, even version 1.1, is indeed faster than MIDI's 31.25kbps, but it's not just an issue of interface speed but the way the interface functions and its underlying interrupt (or other) mechanism, data packetisation and protocol. With USB the slave...

The product you're referring to is undoubtedly 'mLAN', a Yamaha idea of "music over LAN", actually Firewire not Ethernet (in any of its many forms). I think it became obsolete in 2005 after Yammy was the only manufacturer to implement it into product (as far as I'm aware). The important thing...

Hi Shoom, Yes, the 1st iteration of the MIDI specification came out in 1983, as I wrote in an earlier post. Why is there not a more advanced standard? Well, because the guys who designed MIDI pretty well took care to put together a standard that covered almost everything. What they did was to...

Sounds like an excuse for people with NO musical ability? I wonder what da Vinci would make of the use of his 'arm' to illustrate the product. Probably turn in his grave. ;) Now there was a man with real talent.

Ah! I'm with you now. But surely nobody inputs notes that are all 100%, do they? Common sense would tell one that no human can play that way even if they tried. It's like having all notes at the same velocity. So often I see them all at 64 or 100, or much, much worse, all at 127. With the...

I'm not sure how moving the relative position of Note Off messages is going to affect the attempt at simultaneous transmission of Note On messages. However, talking piano yes, normal non legato should definitely not be full length. They should probably vary between say 80 to 90 per cent...

The thing I'm not happy about is ten drums all sounding simultaneously. I've never heard a human drummer that can get just two hits exactly on the same millisecond. Nor, I think, would I want to. ;) If you choose which hits need to be exactly on the beat, which might benefit from being...

One thing you can do if your laptop doesn't have an eSATA port, mine does, is to buy a PCMCIA/cardbus/whatever interface card. These plug directly into the laptop's 'bus' and therefore have a high speed path to the processor/memory. Most cards I've looked at are the early SATA standard, and...

Here are some basics, These days, the most cost effective option is to go for an i5 processor. The i7 will give some improvement but, IMHO, not enough to justify the significant increase in price. Spend what you save on more memory. 8GB (assuming your operating system supports it, sorry I'm no...