sequencers??? help me out guys

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hey everyone! thanks for checkin my post.
heres my deal. i have a korg poly six analog synthesizer, a cpu with cakwalk pro audio 9, and a soundblaster live! platinum soundcard with a live drive interface, which allows for audio in. i am interested in making electro music. people tell me i need a sequencer that will line up all of the notes in time and stuff that i wouldn't normally be able to play live would be possible with a sequencer.
then a guy told me cakewalk might be able to do this? or do i need to buy a hardware sequencer? i'm so lost guys, i greatly appreciate any help. thanks alot, have a nice day
justin g.
 
I think you are well of with what you've got. Now I'm no cakewalk user and I'm not a keyboardplayer and I don't know the keyboard you're mentioning, so I probably shouldn't reply to this post at all, but since nobody else did ....
Cakewalk is a sequencer, as far as I know you can load softsynths and drumsequencers in it. Eeeeeh - now I have answered your question haven't I ? the answer is .. YES !!! .. plug it in and ask again when you have other questions. :)
bizz
 
The korg Poly-SIX is a fairly anchient synth (released in mid-80's) and does not have multi-timbral capabilities. This means it can only play one sound at a time and you cannot play back multi instrument compositions in real time on the Poly-SIX.

What you can do is record one track at a time with MIDI, correct any mistakes you may have and then bounce it to an audio track and built up compositions track by track in this manner.

Pro Audio 9 is a discontinued product and has been replaced with Sonar. PA9 does not have support for WDM drivers (better performance) and soft-synths, so if you want to do compositions that way, you need to upgrade to something like Sonar or Home Studio 2002.
 
ok

hey bizzarre thanks for the info. that helps out. hey when you said that i could record in MIDI then correct any mistakes... how does that process work? i mean the correcting part. like if you play something out of time, is there a way to correct it? thanks again
justin
 
as brzilian mentioned, it doesn't support soft synths :( too bad
correcting mistakes in midi tracks ... most commonly you dobbelclick your recorded midi track to open the midi editor, else search for something called midi editor. In there you can choose to manually move single notes, or quantize whole parts.
bizz
 
The polisix is a nice synth, but it is pre-MIDI!! I don't know if korg had a standard that allows to control the synth from any external controller. (Like rolands BCD, just a premidi standard.) If it has something like that, you might be able to find a convertor that will convert the midi signal to something that the korg understands, but I don't think the korg has that kinda thingy...

So, no sequencing with the keyboard.

What you can do, is record loops using a soundcard, and play these loops in cakewalk.

Or you can get it midi-fied, install a midi thingy in it, but it'll cost ya...
 
Roel said:
The polisix is a nice synth, but it is pre-MIDI!! I don't know if korg had a standard that allows to control the synth from any external controller. (Like rolands BCD, just a premidi standard.) If it has something like that, you might be able to find a convertor that will convert the midi signal to something that the korg understands, but I don't think the korg has that kinda thingy...

So, no sequencing with the keyboard.

What you can do, is record loops using a soundcard, and play these loops in cakewalk.

Or you can get it midi-fied, install a midi thingy in it, but it'll cost ya...
Click to expand...

I stand corrected, it indeed does not have MIDI. It was made in 1981. MIDI was only introduced in 1983 with the Yamaha DX-7.

So yes, you would have to do recordings as if you were recording into an analog 4-track if you did decide to stick with Cakewalk.

Sorry 'bout that.
 
its all good guys. thanks for the info. i got it now. have a great day!:)
justin
 
its not entirely impossible... I've had a friend of mine's polysix around my studio quite often. getting it to work properly could just require a CV/Gate to MIDI interface. The polysix has something very cool in that it has an arp. trigger. I've used my super bass station's arp trigger to sync the polysix's arp. perfectly to a MIDI clock, but that, of course is only dealing with the polysix with the arp. on. I believe it also has VCF in, which can be used to trigger individual notes. I'm sure doing one's research could find a fitting CV MIDI converter. Though they do tend to cost a bit. I'll see what I can dig up...
 
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