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MIDI Keyboards, Controllers and Interfaces :: a little help??

choirboy — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:24:54 GMT

I have been approached by one of our congregation members at church who has discovered that our church organ has midi ports in it. Until this point midi could have fallen from the sky and hit me in the head, and I wouldn't have had a clue about it. Anyway, I'm wondering.... is this as simple as us getting a usb/midi cable in order to hook to my macbook, hooking into the church organ, downloading some good old hymns to my laptop in midi format of course, hitting the right key and the organ takes off and does it's thing like a player piano??? or am I dreaming, and it's a giant pain to do this?

The QuadraSynth Forum :: QS8.1 key weight

mach77 — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:58:23 GMT

Is there any way to change the weight of the keys on the QS8.1? The keys are very hard to depress and cause a lot of strain on my hands. I would like to make it very light touch just like an acoustic piano.

MIDI Keyboards, Controllers and Interfaces :: RE: Portman PC/P with 133Mhz Pentium

ernie — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:05:12 GMT

I dunno, just a thought here but is there some other driver loaded which may be accessing the parallel port, too?

MIDI Keyboards, Controllers and Interfaces :: Want to Buy: Midiman Portman 2x4

ernie — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:43:05 GMT

This is an old parallel port interface. Doesn't work with Windows XP/Vista. If you happen to have one collecting dust, I'll pay a fair price plus shipping.

Midiman Portman 2x4

Thanks!

The QuadraSynth Forum :: RE: What Alesis synth do you use?

bluesplayer — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:53:53 GMT

Not quit fair to force one pick

I primarily use Fusion 8HD but still use QS8 and QSR
Larry

The QuadraSynth Forum :: RE: You can put 51 banks on a single card.

bluesplayer — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:39:52 GMT

JP

I've been using soundbridge and QS8/QSR for years and never THOUGHT to make sysex banks midifiles - duh!

Thanks
Larry

The QuadraSynth Forum :: RE: NEED HELP! ON THE ALESIS QS8.1 PLEASE......

rhino — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:04:57 GMT

hi
i have a qs8 which is quite similar...i hope!

first thing is to press EDIT, then GLOBAL. use the page button to get to KEY MODE. use the up and down arrow keys to set to NORMAL. then page to GENERAL MIDI MODE and turn it OFF. then press MIX and use the PAGE buttons to get to channel 1.

you should now be able to play the pre-set mixes.

i don't quite understand what you are asking about the drums: drums and effects are located under the last GROUP button.

e-mail me if you want and we'll try to figger this thing out

bill tomlinson
tomlinson6050@roadrunner.com

The QuadraSynth Forum :: NEED HELP! ON THE ALESIS QS8.1 PLEASE......

need2know — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:46:21 GMT

Hi, I saw the forum and I thought I'd give it a try in hopes of finding some help! I'm almost too embarrassed to ask, but I figure what the heck. I've had my Alesis QS8.1 for years... yes, years. And I've always used it as a simple keyboard, never used any of the programs or the mixes. Now I'm curious. I read the manual, but uhm.... it was more complicated than I thought. Anyways, long story short. I have the keyboard connected to a pair of powered monitors. And I tried playing the 'mixes' in the mix mode. I don't hear any sound come out.

1. How do I set it up so I can hear the mixes that is in the Alesis?
2. How do I get to the sound effects (like the drum sound...)?

Please... any help is appreciated! And I thank you in advance!

Regards,
Vick.

MIDI Keyboards, Controllers and Interfaces :: Noob...I want to use my computer as a sound module...How?

rasav — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:17:43 GMT

Hi,
Can someone point me in the right direction?

I'm looking for a stand alone virtual sound module.
Everything I come across ends up being either a massive comprehensive professional program- or - a plug in for a massive comprehensive professional program.

Are there any Stand alone virtual midi sound modules made for hacks and rank amatures? ( people who are slow learners and barely functional around technology.)

Thanks for any help!
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General Discussions About Music :: Classical piece ID

estr4ng3d — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:03:35 GMT

Could someone help my identify this tune please?

http://iden.tify.us/songs/1072

Thanks!

MIDI Keyboards, Controllers and Interfaces :: Midi Router

Surferdude — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:29:29 GMT

Hi All. First post.

I am a guitar player. My current setup uses a midi foot controller controlling a single hardware midi effects processor. I recently purchased a software program by Native Instruments called Guitar Rig 3.

I want to incorporate the software into my live setup. The problem is, the software can only receive information in omni mode. I need to be able to send control/program change messages to both the hardware unit and the software on separate channels.

Midi Solutions has a hardware device that will do this. It's called the Router. I would rather not have to add another piece of hardware to my rig. Is there a software solution that I could load on my laptop to accomplish this? I am an XP user.

I sure hope NI gets their act together and corrects this oversight soon.

Thanks in advance,
Jim

MIDI Keyboards, Controllers and Interfaces :: RE: Building a new MIDI interface. Cue Light System

clavier — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:38:55 GMT

MIDI may not be the easiest and cheapest way to do this.
First you would need a MIDI controller for the operator, then about 6 50ft MIDI cables with a signal amplifier
(MIDI signals don't do well over 50ft, so an amp is needed), then you'll also need another MIDI box
to convert the signals into light switches, and of course the lights and the hardware for them.
It can be done, but it would be more complex and costly then having a regular switchboard.

MIDI Keyboards, Controllers and Interfaces :: Building a new MIDI interface. Cue Light System

Rob Ross — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:39:21 GMT

Ok, so I want to build a midi interface system, but I have no Idea what I am doing, other than I know how to wire things electrically, and I understand the basic idea of MIDI.

I want to build a system for a theater that can do the following:
A stage manager (or someone telling the people back stage what to do, and when to do it). can push a button, and a light will come on from up to 300' away. When she flips the switch off the light should go off, thus the theater technician will know when to take his cue. There should be at least 10 lights backstage and 10 switches 1 for each light, and a master switch, that can turn off or on all lights at once.

So what I need is a device with switches at 1 location, and then it will go into midi there, and run low voltage up to 300' VIA 3-pin microphone cable, which is popular and thus easily accessible. This will terminate at the second location which will then turn the signal into 120v power (W/ power supply) and have plugs on the back to plug in normal lights.

Help?

MIDI Keyboards, Controllers and Interfaces :: midi 2 support for jv 1080

benefitof — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:47:12 GMT

hi - does the jv 1080 support midi level 2 as i want to access thunder sound on prog 123 - it keeps coming out as seashore even though i've used the correct instructions in cubase - thanx

MIDI Keyboards, Controllers and Interfaces :: Controlling servos with a MIDI keyboard

Robert Goss-Kennedy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:28:15 GMT

Hello -

I am currently working on a kinetic sculpture where the idea is to have a midi keyboard control a set of servos. The hardware is the easy part. There is a neat product called the ServoCenterMidi 1.2 which allows servo control.

The controller will only respond to continuous controller messages. It can even have up to 14 bit resolution.

Now, the board remaps controllers internally. For example Controller 02 (Breath Control MSB) is remapped to Servo 2 (MSB).

What I would like to do is have a keyboard control the servos in some fashion. Literally so a musician can "play" the sculpture. My understanding is this would require me to remap the keys on the keyboard to the various required CC codes.

I know nothing of keyboards and haven't been able to find the exact wording that tell a noob like me if this is possible.

So is it possible? And what terminology should I look for. I don't need a fancy keyboard, just one that I can remap.

TIA