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zippyzapp
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Here's a few questions that I'm hoping that someone can answer for me:
1) What's the difference between a VST plug-in and a VST instrument? I'm assuming that the former would be something like an effect (e.g. reverb, et al.) and the latter would be something that actually generates sounds itself. Is this true?
2) I've got a digital piano with a MIDI in and out hooked up to a Santa Cruz card, using n-Track as my sequencer. I've also got an Omni Studio breakout box into a Delta 66 card, but I don't have a MIDI interface for the O/S yet. I've been able to hook up the keyboard/Santa Cruz/n-Track configuration in such a way that I can play stuff on the piano, record it as a MIDI file in n-Track, and then play it back through the keyboard, and that's about the extent of what I know how to do.
I haven't had much luck getting the sound card to play the music itself, and when I do, the sounds are pretty lousy. I'm assuming that that is due to the limitations of the sound synthesizing capabilities built into the sound card.
What I'd really love to do is utilize VST instruments like, say, the Big Tick Cheeze Machine. Am I correct in believing that they generate their own sounds independent of the sound card? I mean, obviously it would have to go through the sound card for me to hear it, but the sound card just plays what the sythesizer creates, right?
I'd like to be able to use my keyboard (the piano, I mean, not the computer keyboard, although that might be nice too!) to record either MIDI or audio tracks with the Cheeze Machine and similar plug-ins. What MIDI settings would I need to use on my computer? Can someone please explain to me if it's possible to use my set-up to do something like this? I'm not completely averse to the idea of splurging for some new software sequencing type things ---especially because I know that n-Track is supposed to be pretty weak when it comes to MIDI, and because it doesn't support VSampler (and I'd LOVE for someone to show me how to get THAT to work!)--- but I feel like I just keep spending my hard-earned coins on computer sh!t that either doesn't work with my set-up or that is impossible to figure out how to use.
Thanks in advance,
ZZ
P.S. I've posted this in two forums (n-Track and MIDI Mania), so I apologize for any overlap.
1) What's the difference between a VST plug-in and a VST instrument? I'm assuming that the former would be something like an effect (e.g. reverb, et al.) and the latter would be something that actually generates sounds itself. Is this true?
2) I've got a digital piano with a MIDI in and out hooked up to a Santa Cruz card, using n-Track as my sequencer. I've also got an Omni Studio breakout box into a Delta 66 card, but I don't have a MIDI interface for the O/S yet. I've been able to hook up the keyboard/Santa Cruz/n-Track configuration in such a way that I can play stuff on the piano, record it as a MIDI file in n-Track, and then play it back through the keyboard, and that's about the extent of what I know how to do.
I haven't had much luck getting the sound card to play the music itself, and when I do, the sounds are pretty lousy. I'm assuming that that is due to the limitations of the sound synthesizing capabilities built into the sound card.
What I'd really love to do is utilize VST instruments like, say, the Big Tick Cheeze Machine. Am I correct in believing that they generate their own sounds independent of the sound card? I mean, obviously it would have to go through the sound card for me to hear it, but the sound card just plays what the sythesizer creates, right?
I'd like to be able to use my keyboard (the piano, I mean, not the computer keyboard, although that might be nice too!) to record either MIDI or audio tracks with the Cheeze Machine and similar plug-ins. What MIDI settings would I need to use on my computer? Can someone please explain to me if it's possible to use my set-up to do something like this? I'm not completely averse to the idea of splurging for some new software sequencing type things ---especially because I know that n-Track is supposed to be pretty weak when it comes to MIDI, and because it doesn't support VSampler (and I'd LOVE for someone to show me how to get THAT to work!)--- but I feel like I just keep spending my hard-earned coins on computer sh!t that either doesn't work with my set-up or that is impossible to figure out how to use.
Thanks in advance,
ZZ
P.S. I've posted this in two forums (n-Track and MIDI Mania), so I apologize for any overlap.