Question by : What is a good midi keyboard to get to make trance if I use fruity loops?
Hi everyone, I’m trying to learn how to create trance/edm and if anyone could give me some opinions on keyboards/synths/etc to get for this purpose, thank you.
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Answer by Henré
Any keyboard would be good. Try M-Audio or Novation.
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Question by Drexul_Slum: Please, need help on Midi Keyboard!?
Ok, Ive been doing music now for a while on software on the computer, like acid, fruityloops, ect… But I have never used a midi keyboard before. I recieved an M-Audio Axiom 49 key USB midi Keyboard today and am having truoble with it. I put in the driver install disk and it installes the keyboard, then I plug in the Usb connector. ( it only came with a usb Audio connector, no midi out or midi in). So… After all that was done, I load fruity loops 5 and go to the preference section, But it doesnt show my keyboard. In the Midi out and Midi in section it says none. I tried Ablton as well, but it seems like none of the my software works with it. I was thinking it was the USb controller, but It said it was supposed to be simple. Right now, I jsut need my midi keyboard to ork with a software, or how do I start using my midi. Sorry if this is a kinda stupid question, Its my first tiem using one of these.
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Answer by K of the G
This often happens with MIDI keyboards because the device is not active when you do have it connected when you install the software. Rather than installing the software first, you should connect the USB device first, then wait to be prompted for the driver. At that point, point the wizard to the driver.
Additionally, as you know, simply having a USB MIDI device does not ensure that your computer actually knows how to talk to the MIDI portion of a USB device. MIDI operations on any computer are often controlled by a sound card or software emulator. I am assuming that isnce you have been doing music software like ACID/Fruityloops that you have actually run MIDI devices before. Simply using the software without a MIDI device does not mean you have been running MIDI. It only means you have been playing MIDI files in a software emulator mode. Be sure you go to your sound card and enable your MIDI options on the sound device.
Once you have done that, you may need to reinstall the device and then check its operations.
Myself, I have an M-Audio O2 midi controller keyboard. It did not work on my computer until I enabled the MIDI portion of my sound card.
I hope that is helpful.
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It’s a collision between a twenty-first century tablet and some of the most iconic analog instruments ever produced. It’s MIDI and digital meeting up with control voltage and analog. It’s our friend Chris Stack, endeavoring to find the path that allows him to take the best pieces of his studio and put them together, pushing all that gear to its limits and finding a sum that exceeds the parts. In short, it’s music making, how a soloist can make an ensemble out of their tools. On ExperimentalSynth.com, Chris has been very interesting indeed. But it’s nice to pull together a few of these recent episodes to get a sense of the larger theme.
First, let’s have a look at Moog’s Animoog synth as it’s crossed with the Moog Voyager. Now, some will recall my original criticism of Animoog and iOS synths in general was the lack of tactile feedback on the iPad. But that makes Animoog’s support of MIDI significant. And put these instruments together with your hardware instruments, and something very different happens. (I find it interesting that the most active users of Animoog I’ve met all have it as an addition to a conventional hardware studio – it’s all pieces of the puzzle.)
Chris tells us this video has gotten an especially-enthusiastic response. The video demonstrates “some of the many possibilities when using the Moog Voyager as a MIDI controller for the Moog Animoog app and feeding the iPad audio back into the Voyager’s filter.”
What you may not have seen is the “extended,” “noir” version of that video:
But that’s just one direction to go with combinations of gear. Here’s a look at what happens when you augment a synth with outboard effects, also in this case from Moog Music. Chris writes:
These next two are a pair showing how to use the Env Out CV from the Moog MF-101 filter and MF-107 FreqBox to bring tempo-synced filter effects to the Voyager (which is somewhat limited in that regard compared to the LP and SP which have MIDI synced LFOs and arpeggiators). First the MF-101, then with a bit gnarlier and more complex setup with the FreqBox.
One thing you get out of computing platforms versus analog gear is worlds of sound that are impossible in the analog domain. That’s why it’s especially nice to see Chris combine csGrain, the out-there granular effect in Csound’s new incarnation on the iPad, with a Moog guitar:
But just as with desktop computers, a terrific role for mobile and tablets, particularly the MIDI-equipped iPad, is as a sequencer. The tablet interface becomes as natural an editing and composition tool as the gear is for tweaking and performance. Chris offers:
Here’s a really quick and dirty one I shot on my Droid while playing. It is on my other YouTube channel. Here I used the Koushion app to sequence the LP. The LP has the CV Out Upgrade so I sent the Pitch CV to the CP-251 which inverted it, then sent it to control the Voyager’s filter cutoff. As the LP note goes up, the Voyager Filter Cutoff goes down. This was all tied together through Ableton which was sending the same clock to a Line 6 Echo Pro so all the echos were synced to the same clock…
Of course, there’s a strong Moog Music emphasis in all these videos, but they all demonstrate more broadly where the productive overlaps of digital and analog can lie, adaptable to much humbler rigs and combinations.
If you find this sort of thing inspiring in your own music, you can follow Chris’ site directly:
http://experimentalsynth.com/
We’ll be watching.
Question by ilike2game: Speeding Up Midi Tracks in Cubase 5?
How do you speed up midi and instrument tracks in Cubase 5? When I select midi tracks time stretch and most other options are grayed out, but on recorded tracks nothing’s grayed out. Please help.
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Answer by soundmagus
Hi,
I think you are getting confused by the difference between Audio and Midi (which is very common).
you cant time stretch midi as midi is just on/off (at its most very basic) signals which are used to trigger another device, may it be a synth, sampler or external device.
When you create a midi part and assign it to what ever sound source you are using, the tempo makes no difference. For instance create a midi part just with a note drawn in on every16th for 2 bars. Assign a vst to that midi channel (or instrument track) then change the tempo from 100 to 150 then to 200 bpm, you will see that the sound you have chosen speeds up accordingly but still remains 2 bars long.
I hope this helps, if you need more clarification get me on msn using soundmagus@lilve.co.uk and i will try to help you out in real time.
all the best,
Mark
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Equipped with MIDI, a phone or tablet can communicate with a vast range of standalone hardware and computer software for music. So, what to do with that power? Two recent applications show just some of the breadth of possibility, one from Japan, one from Ukraine. One provides an array of powerful tools, combining into one application a lot of functions that have otherwise been available only in separate apps. One takes a more novel approach. Each demonstrates Apple’s increasingly-ubiquitous iPhone and iPad to be a surprisingly-indispensible musical tool.
Let’s look at the more whimsical of the two first.
From Japanese media artist and developer Masayuki Akamatsu (known as aka), MIDIWriter is a bit unlike MIDI tools you’ve likely seen before. It sends MIDI notes not from a piano keyboard or more familiar musical interface, but from the key entry you’d usually use to type in messages. That means the on-screen keyboard – even, as pictured, in another language – can become a musical instrument instead of input method for SMS and the like.
Where things get even more interesting is when you add a Bluetooth keyboard or keyboard dock, for iPad or iPhone. Then, those gadgets become physical input devices. (In the oddest example, a projected keyboard even works.)
http://akamatsu.org/aka/ios/apps/midiwriter/ [lots of great documentation, in both English and Japanese]
MIDIWriter @ apps.createdigitalmusic.com [View, install; US$ 1.99]
It’s all quite peculiar, but I can think of one particular advantage to doing something a bit unusual: sometimes, the best way to break out of tired musical habits is to face an unfamiliar musical interface.
In the more conventional and practical end of the pool, we have Wiksnet’s MIDI Studio. With rather lovely, refined-looking interface design, the Ukrainian app treads in the competitive waters of iOS MIDI controllers. What it does that those apps don’t necessarily do, though:
1. It adds velocity senstivity, via vibration, as seen in Apple’s own GarageBand but less-commonly in MIDI tools.
2. It combines layouts into convenient configurations, coupling, for instance, knobs with MIDI keys.
And it looks nice. A future version promises editable templates, but for many, having some nice stuff up and running without any additional effort could be a draw. From the developers, a feature list:
http://www.wiksnet.com/
MIDI Studio @ apps.createdigitalmusic.com [View, install; US$ 10.99]
There’s no official view, but here’s one fan-made entry:
The Ukrainian developer has done other commercial work, they say, but this is their first unique iOS music app. The next release will have, alongside editable templates, velocity sensitivity, and will fill other user requests.
In the case of MIDIWriter, there’s not a lot of comparison to be made – desktop software has often mapped standard input and keyboards to music, but not necessarily iOS apps. With MIDI Studio, of course, we’re overdue for an overview of MIDI apps.
Let us know how you use these – or other tools, including things that don’t begin with a lowercase “i” – to produce MIDI events in your workflow.
Question by bigtruckdude: How to stop stutter and lag while using a motif 6 keyboard midi to fruity loops?
Okay i’ve adjusted the buffer and it still does not correct the problem. I’m using a Toshiba laptop and I don’t know if I need a better sound card or what? If anyone has any suggestions or tips please feel free to reply. Thank you kindly.
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Answer by rekkerd
How’s the CPU meter? Is it maxing out when it’s stuttering?
If so, and increasing the buffer doesn’t work then perhaps your laptop is an older model (not fast enough).
Using an external ASIO audio device should work much better than onboard DirectX soundcards, but I can’t guarantee it will solve the stuttering if you’re laptop just doesn’t have enough juice.
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If you’re looking to build your own instruments and effects and sequencers and play with patching, you really don’t want this software. No, seriously – while a fascinating, fun tech demo, something like the desktop Pd or Max is probably what you want. (As we saw earlier this week, Pd-extended just got much easier to use, and it’s free.) This makes sound, but it’s also buggy and in progress and likely more of interest to coders.
Okay, now having scared off some people, let’s talk nerd-to-nerd for a second. Patchosaur, an open-source, GitHub-hosted project by BADAMSON, is nonetheless seriously cool, demonstrating not only what’s possible in a browser but what Webby technologies can do for creative music-making. Powered by network-centric node.js, it does do a lot of things Pd and Max do. And it demonstrates why some of us in the Pd community are wondering if Web-style front-ends could be the future of user interfaces.
If none of that previous paragraph made any sense to you, let’s put it another way:
The stuff in your browser will continue to make all the software you use better. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
You might be running software in a browser. You might not. You might get to the point where you don’t really care. But as what makes a computer a computer still remains more or less the same, your computer can continue to improve, free. And that’s pretty great.
If that sounds interesting, music nerdsters, then check out the guts of Patchosaur:
http://patchosaur.org/
Thanks to Brendan Adamson for sending in this project. I just hope I’ve inadvertently derailed – slash – inspired someone’s end-of-the-semester coding project. Let us know.
Question by prestone v: How do I put MIDI files onto my yamaha keyboard with FL studio?
I have a yamaha YPT-400 keyboard.
I lost my CD, so I downloaded the driver, and I’m trying to put my MIDI files created in FL studio onto my keyboard. I’m new at FL studio, but FLS is responding to the keyboard actions. So, I believe the driver works.
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Answer by The foreigner
Unfortunately your CD contained the program you use to transfer your songs to your instrument and back. The program is called “Musicsoft Downloader”
Perhaps it’s better if you read the manual.
(Musicsoft v5.5 is the second source)
Page 90 in the .pdf manual pretty much describes what you want to know.
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