Keyboard newbie questions...

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If I plug a keyboard into the MIDI port of my computer's sound card.... will the software(SONAR) use the sounds produced by the keyboard or the internal soundfont in the sound card when I program stuff using the piano roll? (no I dun have a keyboard yet)

Pier.
 
Pier,

> will the software(SONAR) use the sounds produced by the keyboard or the internal soundfont <

It depends where you tell Sonar to send the track's output. If you send the track to the sound card's A or B synth, it will play the SoundFonts. If you send it to the external MIDI port - and connect that port to the keyboard - it will play the sounds in the keyboard.

--Ethan
 
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Many thanks Ethan, This forum will be hearing a lot from us in
the future. Dolly
 
More questions...

What is the pitch bend on a keyboard for?

Pier.
 
it's there to enable you to "bend" the pitch, i.e. slide it up and down... it works kinda like a wah pedal, but it's not as prominent...
 
The pitchshifter is effective in trying to recreate strings and brass bits. You've gotta be careful with it though, it can be made to sound very unnatural.

p.s. Doesn't a wah-wah change the frequency.
 
aren't you talking about the vibrato thingy?? the modulation wheel??
anyhoo, i don't know how a wah works... i just know it can produce what sounds like a pitch shift... and since shifting the frequency and shifting the pitch is the same thing.... well..
 
It is far closer to string bending on the guitar than it is to a wah wah pedal.

Carl
 
A wha wha pedal is like a foot controlled resonant filter frequency knob. A Pitch bend wheel is more like a wammy bar.

barefoot
 
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