I just bought a m audio 44 key midi controller and am learning to play keyboard. when I play chords on the lower octives they sound terrible and almost out of key. I know I'm playing them right because I use a chord chart. Any explination on why this is happening. and does anyone know of some GOOD sites to learn to play jazzy funky stuff
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If you're using your computers built-in GM sound card the sounds are bad because the manufacturer had a limited amout of memory space to work with and had to make compromises. Like bending a single sample WAY out of it's range.
Almost any sound module, even super-budget models like the Alesis 'Pico-' series will give you much better sounding voices than your internal sound card can.
Almost any sound module, even super-budget models like the Alesis 'Pico-' series will give you much better sounding voices than your internal sound card can.
starfox said:
You're not understanding how all this stuff works.
ALL soundcards are simply D/A converters. Only Sound Blaster type cards had internal hardware synths with a GM soundset built into ROM.
Reason is responsible for creating the sounds you are using - the soundcard is simply converting the 1's and 0's to an audio signal you can hear.