Attn Zapanaz
Correspondent:: "iDRMRSR"
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:02:42 -0500
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All right, you conned me into it.
Today I just connected my cheap MIDI keyboard (a Yamaha actually) to my
reasonably expensive Dell. It took me a couple weeks to locate just the
right cable, but the gent in Brown finally dropped it into my reclusive
hands about an hour ago.
I am now jamming to some Jean Luc Ponty mids.
However, geez, the damn keyboard only plays 8 tracks off the MIDI, which has
considerably more. I then got to thinking, when I play that through my
soundcard, it sounds one way, and through the MIDI keyboard, it sounds
another way.
I have here, basically two dueling computers. And I'm set back $25 for the
cable. Neither one, to my ear, seems to have any advantage soundwise.
Drat, I was hoping for so much more.
I think I have been fished in by the international cable cartel!
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Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:30:55 -0800
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:02:42 -0500, "iDRMRSR"
wrote:
>All right, you conned me into it.
>
>Today I just connected my cheap MIDI keyboard (a Yamaha actually) to my
>reasonably expensive Dell. It took me a couple weeks to locate just the
>right cable, but the gent in Brown finally dropped it into my reclusive
>hands about an hour ago.
>
>I am now jamming to some Jean Luc Ponty mids.
>
>However, geez, the damn keyboard only plays 8 tracks off the MIDI, which has
>considerably more. I then got to thinking, when I play that through my
>soundcard, it sounds one way, and through the MIDI keyboard, it sounds
>another way.
>
>I have here, basically two dueling computers. And I'm set back $25 for the
>cable. Neither one, to my ear, seems to have any advantage soundwise.
>Drat, I was hoping for so much more.
>
>I think I have been fished in by the international cable cartel!
>
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well that sucks.
With a really good synthesizer, good midis should sound as good as
commercial music. That's all they do when they make commercial music
anyway, it's just a midi port and a synth.
you might try some classical music, pop music the instruments are more
"iffy". Like what exaclty is a "Goblin Synthesizer" (one of the
standard midi instruments) supposed to sound like? But classical the
instruments are pretty well-defined.
BUT you need a special 75$ CLASSICAL midi cable for that of course.
And a null cable. You have a null cable, right?
but apparently your keyboard sucks.
--
Zapanaz
International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/
So he DIED. He was OLD. His BRAIN was MUSH from ALZHEIMER'S. Of
COURSE HE DIED, what did you EXPECT him to do, win the figure skating
medal in the winter olympics?
- requiescat in obscura, Ronald Reagan
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:51:52 GMT
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I can answer this one in three notes, yer honor.
1) General MIDI is a standard that was MADE to sound vanilla so it could
meet any simple demand, such as the massive filmstrip market for
elementary schools. The deal is, GM/SG-equipped instruments also tend to
sound like a digital organ grinder's nightmare because serious players
have no use for them; they're at the home-hobby level, as a rule. The
MIDI channels are all in place so you can hear a loose approximation of
the music and have the sax be a sax, but the sounds don't usually sit
well with one another. They'll PLAY, but not wow you.
2) You can acquire high-end audio cards that sound great, but that may
be needlessly deep for casual use. Same with a pro synth that has the
audio goods and cannot be found at Wal-Mart. OTOH, it depends on the
card. Check out what kind of specs it has. If its fast & juicy enuf, it
might play a plug-in wavetable synth like a champ, cover 32 notes and
sound good instead of tweezy. That would be cheap and fairly satisfying.
3) Was that you at that showing of "The Passion of the Christ," sitting
up front, rubbing your crotch and moaning while they lashed Our Lord? It
sounded like you.
--
HellPope Huey
Life is like some crazy biker,
angrily driving his hog through your front door
because some dark deal he made went sour,
but he's dyslexic and inverted the address numbers,
so the guy he wants to kill is 20 blocks away
"Don't pay too much attention to the sounds.
If you do you may miss the Music.
You won't get a heroic ride to heaven
on pretty little sounds."
- George Ives, father of Charles
"YOUR TATER 'SPLODE!"
- Rev. Dr. Jack