Mixing Midi and digital audio with Sonar

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I downloaded a trial version of fruity loops from their site, I can already hear the difference in quality...If this works it will be good enough for now.

I don't understand why the sound quality is so much better than Sonar, but if it works, I'm not going to complain.
 
with regards to Roland kits...

If you ever go in the direction of a drumkit...whatever it is (pintech, alesis, roland, etc.)...my advice is to go with the woven head technology. Its pricey, but man what a different/better feel....plus there is nothing more annoying then hearing the sticks hitting some hardened rubber. Drives me nuts even with headphones.....I own the rubber. I demoed the V-Concert series with brushes, using a jazz/brush preset of course....and it felt so real I got chills.....................
 
I have to agree with you yadi..

I will always prefer a real kit to an electronic set, but the V-concert series kicks ass..Everytime I go to a music store I spend at least 20 min on it. My cousin just bought the rubber set by Roland. I forget the model, but it uses the TD-8 module. It sounds good but the pads suck. Horrible reaction time. And the snare sounds pretty crappy (way too artificial).

My only fear with the V-Concert is I like to hit drums really hard, and I'm afraid with the mesh skins, I'll be replacing alot of drums until I get used to the difference.

I was going to settle on a cheaper set, but after trying both, I decided to hold out...I know it will be worth it.
 
I run a Delta 1010 with Sonar XL and WinXP.
I use Live Synth Pro DXi for the soundfonts, that way you don't need the SB Live card for that.
I also use a Midi Sport 4x4 for connecting my keyboards and other midi gear.
I found that the midi port on the 1010 didn't work well, so I don't use it at all.
The Roland Virtual Sound Canvas was made to be a sound module so you wouldn't need another wav synth like SB Live.

Try the Midi Sport instead of the 1010 midi input, as I recall it made my midi sound bad also.

A1MixMan

P.S. I have some great drum Soundfonts that sound fantastic. I just play them with my keyboard. Sounds like real drums to me.
 
Ok I figured out my problem regarding bad quality sound with my midi files.

I'm not really sure how this got affected, but there is a feature in Win98SE, 2000, and ME, that disables ports if they are not used for a period of time. It's seems somehow this feature was causing the internal synth on my soundcard not to respond correctly. This problem may also cause COM and LPT ports to function incorrectly.

To correct it you have to run the Registry Editor in Windows:
Go to START -> Run, type "REGEDIT", hit enter.

Open this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VCOMM

On the right where it says Enable Power Management, edit that key and set the first group of numbers from 01 to 00.

Reboot....

I still a little crackling when recording Midi, but adjusting the trim seems to take care of that.

......DXI's are awesome......
 
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