Had It With Soundcards

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Oooh, a bidding war!

Well you can email me at rwhite@ldmi.com

Seriously, I'd be interested in it for my second system, but if ametth is a beginner and doesn't have a card yet, he can have it. I don't want to deprive anyone... :D

Wait a minute, ametth has 1000+ posts! Hell, you should have better gear already.....
 
Levey,

O k, you are better off than I thought..especially since you already have a mixing console

All you really need is the midi interface...as I mentioned before I have a parallel interface and a Usb...I am /was not expieriencing any audible latency with the Usb interface..im using the parallel interface simply because it has more ins and outs..although i do remember that one of the 4in 4 out Usb interfaces was kinda buggy and I believe it was the Midiman version but that was a while ago...I would recommend any of the Motu stuff...solid as a rock

On the matter of smpte..you dont really need it for what you are trying to do with your external synths/sound...you can simply use Midi Sync within Cubase..to sync the Triton and any other midi sound modules you have...you dont need word clock or a midi time piece for this

I recommended getting an interface with smpte so that if you ever wanted to sync analog tape decks to your setup you would have a means of "striping the tape". Again, most midi interfaces that have 4 or more ins and outs have smpte capabilities...

You mentioned using the triton to drive your sound modules..
This would be o k...if you have already created your sequences within the Triton...if not...a better alternative would be to dump all of your sequences in Cubase..and let it be the main sequencer . You could still use the Triton, the kurzweil and the drum machine to create your sequences but use Cubase as your main recorder..

Make sense?...

Hope this helps
 
elbenj - now Im getting somewhere. Im checking out the motu micro express. one last thing I gotta ask you though. concerning the sequence dump. I was putting all my midi sequences from the triton into the computer one by one. they went on easy in logic but out of sync in cubase. I can just dump them somehow? say its so. audio too? or just midi? Ive heard of something like this before but not in any depth. Im going to look into this. thanks again
 
Where can you get a C-Port for $399.00?

I'm new to all of this and am trying to get my PC and home studio setup for recording. I'm not to proud to beg! If anyone has any stuff they want to get rid of, "please" let me know I'll try and take it off thier hands.

Also does anyone know anything about or have an E-MU 8717 "The Music Box" sound card. I think this is what I want for MIDI on my PC.

Ozlee
 
c9-2001

Thanks for the info. This is a source I had not heard of before.

Now if I can just find the money.


Ozlee
 
Levey - hey, thanks for that link to the Gadgetlabs group. This might help me with a long-standing problem I've had, which brings me to...

RWhite - yeah, I'm really happy with the sound I get out of my 824 too (I recently put three songs up in the mp3 clinic and nobody said 'get rid of that sandpaper soundcard'). My bitch about it is the add-on spdif card I bought about a week before the company died, and I've never been able to get it working. Maybe the online Gadgetlabs groups that Levey steered me towards can help me with it...

The only other reason I've got for ditching the 824 is the fact that it doesn't go higher than 48 KHz. Not a major disadvantage yet.
 
Levey,

I probably shouldnt have used the term "dump" to describe the process of transferring your midi sequences between devices.

There is actually a procedure called a "midi dump" which involves transferring system exclusive and midi equipment identifying information between devices but this is not use to transfer recorded sequences to the best of my knowledge anyway..

I would stick to transferring the tracks one at a time utilizing midi sync..there should be no syncing problems providing that you keep the device thats sending the midi in the internal clock position and the software should always be in the midi sync mode.. I am using Cakewalk and assuming that Cubase and Logic are set up the same way...

To transfer multiple tracks at the same time ( still talking midi here) set your external device to transmit each instrument on an individual midi channel..(this is easily acccomplished in the Triton)
and set up your software to receive each midi channel on the corresponding midi channel and separate track..I like to align midi channels with track numbers Ex: Track 1 Midi ch 1 Electric Piano

You mentioned audio..there is no audio to transfer..unless you are speaking of recording an audio version at the same time..

I use this method when I record a keyboard player..arming a track for audio..recording a miced version. a direct version and a midi version of the same performance...
 
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