Hi all,
Thanks to all you folks who tried to help me figure out a problem I'd been having. As it turns out, the solution was perfectly sensible, but evaded me for months nonetheless.
To recount the problem, I was recording a drum track from my Yamaha PSR 540 keyboard onto Cakewalk Homestudio, using an SB Live! Platinum sound card. One particular percussion voice which I could not reproduce out of the ports of my sound card was "snare roll". One solution would have been to purchase a Yamaha sound card. For a bit less money and more value, however, I chose to download the soft synthesizers from Yamaha.
Last night I downloaded one of the synths. Once done, I was too tired to fool with anything which might require a properly functioning brain. So, I went to bed, sure that I had noch einmal gotten a false start on my continual MIDI headache. This morning, armed with coffee and cigarettes, I summoned up my courage and installed the thing. After testing it, I started Cakewalk, and to my growing excitement, I saw a new port for XG was available for the taking. So, I played back my thus far untitled song fragment with it's snare roll. Now all along, this roll was played back as a "scratch up" patch, which is like a hip hop thing. I had actually grown used to hearing this sound on about the first and fifth beats of a 7/8 time acoustic jazz piece. Imagine how I felt, having attained this awesome prize of success, now that it sounded like the tune I'd been hearing in my head for the last twenty odd years.
Cheers.
Mr. Gone
Thanks to all you folks who tried to help me figure out a problem I'd been having. As it turns out, the solution was perfectly sensible, but evaded me for months nonetheless.
To recount the problem, I was recording a drum track from my Yamaha PSR 540 keyboard onto Cakewalk Homestudio, using an SB Live! Platinum sound card. One particular percussion voice which I could not reproduce out of the ports of my sound card was "snare roll". One solution would have been to purchase a Yamaha sound card. For a bit less money and more value, however, I chose to download the soft synthesizers from Yamaha.
Last night I downloaded one of the synths. Once done, I was too tired to fool with anything which might require a properly functioning brain. So, I went to bed, sure that I had noch einmal gotten a false start on my continual MIDI headache. This morning, armed with coffee and cigarettes, I summoned up my courage and installed the thing. After testing it, I started Cakewalk, and to my growing excitement, I saw a new port for XG was available for the taking. So, I played back my thus far untitled song fragment with it's snare roll. Now all along, this roll was played back as a "scratch up" patch, which is like a hip hop thing. I had actually grown used to hearing this sound on about the first and fifth beats of a 7/8 time acoustic jazz piece. Imagine how I felt, having attained this awesome prize of success, now that it sounded like the tune I'd been hearing in my head for the last twenty odd years.
Cheers.
Mr. Gone