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Sorry Mr. Moderator. It was a little spammy of me, but I really do want to prompt discussion about the means by which we transfer vitality into our MIDI tracks. I am sure that most here are very talented and have that senseof the way musical phrases relate to each other to create the tension and...

This here is the sort of thing I meant by MIDI visual metronome/ conductor. They have a video of Bjork in concert with one; jump to 2:35 if you want to see it. That one is essentially 1-dimensional. A 2-dimensional version would mimic a human conductor's motion. Does anybody have experience...

You know how some musicians seem connected to their instrument as though it is an extension of their being? Barring a few exceptions, these virtuoso performers usually specialize in only one or two instruments. The alternative is being a jack of all trades and a master of none. When a...

I read some interesting advice years ago about creating click tracks. It said to subdue the main beats rather than emphasizing them. For example, instead of having a side-stick or metronome ticking in their unsubtle way, use a steady conga pattern that implies where the main beats are. The...

Excellent, that is really good news. I hope it works well for you.

A big sorry to all the people who were having trouble with the Windows version (WINv1.1) due to the DLL error. I have compiled a new version with static libraries. Version WINv1.1.2 is now available for free download. Please let me know if there are further issues. Thankyou Darren Mac

I am surprised to hear that. My Atari version worked with Anatek Pocket Sync years ago. I now have the Mac version, and while I have never syncronised it to anything, I see the clock messages it sends on my logic analyser. It doesn't make sense to me that it would not also receive those...

Mastertracks can run on a Mac, Atari or PC, and it was regarded as the most user friendly sequencer back in the day. I used to sync an Atari to a Fostex 8-track with a Pocket-Sync in the early '90s and it worked pretty well. The Mac and PC versions can control the General MIDI sounds that are...

I have written some software to help us determine the effects that hardware, driver and software changes have upon MIDI latency and jitter. The program is also handy for identifying the ideal number of samples of offset to apply to MIDI tracks to compensate for round-trip latency when recording...

I don't have the device or manual any more, but I do remember that you need to have your sequencer's song position pointer enabled, and that you shouldn't record the "stripe" too hot. IIRC the two LEDs are for good play-back level and sync OK. Be aware that you cannot alter the sequencer tempo...

Moved to MIDI Mania I have moved this thread to MIDI Mania, which is where I should have started it. midi-mania/free-program-measures-midi-latency-jitter

Back in the '90s used a Pocket Sync made by Anatek. It worked quite well. You might be lucky to find a second-hand one.

Hi Jimistone. It is impossible to get a good acoustic piano from a DX7. OK-ish sounding organs are possible, but they will usually sound thin and a bit noisy in my opinion. I have been programming my DX7 and then TX802 since 1983, and it is one of my favorite synths. However, these days I only...

My current fave-rave is the Note Toucher BTH1, which is a device that patches your feelings into a MIDI track. So if you are primarily a singer or your main instrument isn't keyboards, you can still achieve live sounding keyboard parts that sound like a virtuoso played them (rather than the...

Almost... A person would have to be completely devoid of any feel for music to sound bad using it! :) The first (lengthy) video says it's not really for keyboard players, but intended more for musicians who are focusing their energy on a different instrument, but still want to have good sounding...

Here is something that modifies MIDI tracks, resulting in an effect similar to that of groove templates, but with a groove that is always perfectly compatible with the music being worked on. It works by merging a lifeless sequence with your own feelings to achieve true humanization. There's a...

If notes end at the same tick that other notes start, the MIDI messages for the new notes wait within the MIDI output's message queue until the note-off messages have been sent. We can eliminate that delay by having notes end a few ticks earlier so that the queue is empty when it is time to...

Something else we can do to help ease the concentration of messages around the instant of beats in rigidly quantised music is to shorten the notes a little so that Note-Off messages don't add to the queue. I find 85% works well. You may think that is a bit short, but as a pianist I have to say...

Hi Crashdiary27, you do not have to worry about tempo, it will not affect your mix at all. Simply import your audio tracks. Tempo only affects MIDI tracks.

Yamaha made such a keyboard years ago, but I think it was only ever on their ''furniture/home-organ" styled products. I remember Keith Emerson talking about one, so I guess it may have been the GX1. Plus I remember when I was little, my grandfather had a three-manual Yamaha D85 where the top...