Soundcard Midi problem?

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I have the E-Mu 1212m sound card and digital interface. I am running m idi in and out directly to an ASR-10 and my Midi through from the ASR to the midi in of an MPC. The 1212m came with Cubasis VST4, a scaled down version of cubase, but all the tracks that I send to Cubasis as midi tracks end up garbled and distorted. Any suggestions as to what the problem might be?
 
Let's take this one step at a time. The Emu is a PCI card --- have you disabled the stock audio card that came with the computer? If so, try using the 'install/remove programs' utility in the control panel to uninstall the Emu card, then go to the Emu web site and download the most current drivers, then reinstall it.

Also - what do you mean by 'garbled and distorted' midi tracks? Midi is a control language and makes no noise on its own - you're probably talking about either the ASR or the MPC being garbled and distorted, right?

Last, you need to set the MPC to recieve on a different midi channel than you have the ASR set for. Then bring up a midi track set to the MPC channel and you should be able to play the MPC from the ASR keyboard.
 
try the reset on cubasis. I dont knoe were it is on that version. but on cubase 2 its in the device set up. Iwas running into that problem before. i found that if you click the reset in device setup/ audio input it will go away. I notice that all the input types have a reset.
 
I think the problem, is that since misi interprets sound, and aloot of the sounds comming out of the ASR are samples, it is probably not a good idea to midi and I should probably run direct connections. Also, I discovered that my latency was set to 50, that was a problem.
 
coffeecann said:
I think the problem, is that since misi interprets sound, and aloot of the sounds comming out of the ASR are samples, it is probably not a good idea to midi and I should probably run direct connections. Also, I discovered that my latency was set to 50, that was a problem.
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If you mean by 'direct connections' plugging the audio outs from your devices into a mixer and then straight into the audio ins on your soundcard that's a foolish solution.

Midi does a whole lot more than interpret sound. At it's most basic level it triggers the samples inside the ASR and the MPC, and that alone allows you to change the sounds without changing the part that they're playing. On the other hand if you like the sounds but feel the part could use some changes you can make those too --- and MUCH more easily than you could if you recorded the audio outputs to your computer.

Here are links to two good articles on midi basics - part one and part two. There are three more articles in this same series so you might want to add it to your bookmarks or favorites.
 
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