Need Help

[Power]

Ok, I'm a musician and not a techie so I'm running out of ideas with what to do. I have cakewalk pro 8, with a Korg N5ex and a gateway p3 450mhz. I'm running windows 98. I have put the drivers for the Korg on my computer but I still only get a few sounds from cakewalk. No matter what I select on my board I end up with either piano or a couple other simple sounds from my soundcard. I am at a loss as to what to do. Please someone who knows a lot help me out a bit here please.

 

[E-money]

What do you mean you put the drivers for the Korg onto the PC? Isn't the Korg a synth of some sort? The sounds you're looking for are on the synth. What makes you think they're going to come out of your soundcard? You need to have midi cables between your synth and your sound card, I'm guessing you may have them already if you're using the synth as a midi keyboard. You need to set your midi track port to midi out. This will transmit your midi instructions to the synth. The sounds will come out of the synths outputs, not the soundcards.

 

[gervis]

it sounds like your configuration isn't correct
have you loaded the korg's instrument definitions into cakewalk?
if you haven't, it is assuming any midi input is GENERAL MIDI-
that may be why the sounds are not correct.
i had the same problem, but the on line manual for loading .ins files is a little perplexing so i went to the cakewalk website and there is a pretty good help file & faq page there
hope this helps

 

[bball jones]

As stated previously, look at your midi i/o. Connect keyboard to pc with midi cable. Once this is done your soundcard will give you some choices for i/o settings, such as the onboard wavetable or an external controller. Flip settings until your keyboard becomes active.

 

[crosstudio]

assigning instruments from cakewalk

1) are you getting the simple sounds out of your sound card, or out of your keyboard?

2) if you are getting them out of your keyboard, it is because cakewalk's port, channel, patch and bank have to be set so that your keyboard knows what sound to play.

for instance, if i (using a roland sc880) want to here strings on midi channel one (having my roland sc880 on port 1, and my ensoniq asr-x one port 2) would do the following in cakewalk:

1) set port to port 1
2) set channel to 1
3) set patch to 50
4) set bank to 0

if i want to change from the midi general strings to the 'warm strings' patch, i change the bank to 1024.

when cakewalk peforms my sequenced tracks, it will tell my SC880 what instrument to play regardless of what I've previously set my SC880 to.