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It is an M-Audio Keystation 88es that I hacked to simplify working 19 Equal Divisions per Octave. The gaps between the white keys are due to adding a black (or grey-painted) key between the stock white keys. I have not yet worked out what to cap the white keys with in order to make them wider...

Watch out for where the pivot-point is situated. M-Audio has the keys pivoting about one centimeter into the into the body. This feels terrible if you are accustomed to a real piano, especially when your thumb and little finger are on black keys, which forces your other fingers closer to where...

If I understand correctly, you have two keyboards that you have used to control VSTis. The radioshack controls VSTis as expected but the Ensoniq causes the VSTis to have stuck notes. How do your keyboards behave when they control each other? Does the radioshack control the Ensoniq OK (and...

The small keyboard at the top is the lightest one in your rig that you are strong enough to lift up that high.

You can't go wrong with a Yamaha MJC8 for standalone MIDI routing.

I could certainly code the firmware, but as you also need the MIDI output circuit it may be better to get the person who provides that hardware to also code the firmware too. Unfortunately, I am in Australia, which makes the hardware difficult due to the time and money wasted on transport if I...

If you don't mind building a box to hold the switches and a credit-card sized PCB, you could probably find an electronics friend to whip up a MIDI output and write some program code. Your requirements are very simple, so the coding should not take much more than one hour. These boards are about...

Type the word "buffer" into Spotlight, or whatever help-finding facilities Garageband and your softsynths have, then read the part that looks most related to audio output to find out how to alter its length. The trade-off is: * short buffers (0 to 128 samples) will feel better to play due to...

Keep in mind that a keyboard with USB only, but no MIDI connector, is a computer-peripheral (like a mouse or a printer) and isn't as useful as a MIDI keyboard if you have other MIDI hardware you would like connect together. If every sound you want to ever play originates from with the computer...

Further to ecc83 Dave's excellent advice above: Capture the hum/ buzz on your "musician's storage oscilloscope" aka your DAW :p and use these rules of thumb to get you started. 100 (120) Hz saw-tooth or ramp waves are due to dried out electrolytic capacitors in the power supply. 50 (60) Hz...

I had requests from users wishing they could isolate the various contributors to latency and jitter rather than measure only the cumulative sum in the final audio track. Some of these people use hardware drum-machines and were noticing that their drum-machines synchronized tightly to one DAW...

Wow! I am very impressed by your dedication to pull off this stunt mandraulically. I wish all the people I have ever tried to collaborate with had that kind of dedication. I wish you every success in your project. Darren Mac

Virtually all subtractive synths and samplers have a parameter called keyboard tracking on their filter that is usually used to raise the cut-off frequency when you play higher notes so that they do not sound dull. If you set this parameter to a negative value, then the filter does the opposite...

Use a negative value for keyboard tracking on your synths oscillators and filters. Or, if you have a Note Toucher BTH1, I can email you a hack that will convert it into a MIDI translator that reverses the keys.

I'm curious. You appear to not have any MIDI equipment at all if you are looking for something that receives MIDI and sends MIDI. So, what possible reason could you have for wanting to generate and receive such signals? Not hostile, just really curious. No; make that REALLY curious.

If you buy an audio interface that has MIDI as well as audio, then you will not need the USB keyboard. Bear in mind that a USB keyboard is a computer peripheral (like a mouse or a printer). A MIDI keyboard (with 5-pin DIN connectors) is far more versatile in that it can be networked with...

Your keyboard and MIDI cable seem OK. Your focus should now be turned to how you are operating the software. Sorry, I have no experience with Reaper, so I can only offer this very general suggestion: There are probably two record "buttons" that need to be pressed --- one for the MIDI track and...

Hello haiko, Does the MIDI light on your interface blink when you play the keyboard? If not, there is no MIDI coming out of your keyboard, so you will need to enable MIDI transmission from your keyboard. If it does blink, try setting reaper to record ALL MIDI channels instead of just one, and...

I saw on the news this morning that the Australian dollar has suddenly dropped to a four-year low. Now would be a good time to buy gear from the land of the Fairlight.

I have had years of practice at editing hand sequenced MIDI tracks to make them sound alive. Over those years, I developed some "rules of thumb." Although tedious, these step do make a reasonable difference: Duration Select all notes and change every duration to 85%. Go to every note that...