Originally posted by Tirau DanI've thought about that but, I want to create this momma for myself. Kind of a challenge like.
If midi is all you want and you just want cover tracks download vanBosco's karaoke player and down load as many tracks as you want.
If nothing else it's a laugh when people wanna singsong and you're tooooo smashed to play.. the girls love it. 🙂
Originally posted by jimslyp69
Yes. I know what you mean about real instruments. What I am trying to achieve is to create some backing tracks for me to twang along with. Just some drums and bass etc. And perhaps a few strings, brass and piano over the top too. Just call me Mr cheese. 😀 I'm having all sorts of problems though. I managed to configure cubase about 18 months ago but could ...[text shortened]... thing in time. Anyways, I thought I'd try fruity loops to see if it presents the same problems.
You then can't go wrong buying Band in a Box. May be The Jammer is an alternative, but BIAB is far better.
Cheers!
Originally posted by jimslyp69You could always use Acid loop sequencer to arrange your tracks. When i started out i used to record 16 beat loops in rebirth and fruity loops and just arrange them in that. It's not the best but it give's you the best of both worlds. 🙂
I have a sound blaster audigy platinum, half a gig of pc2700 RAM and an AMD 1400. I know it's not the best, but thought it would be enough to blow away any latency.
Originally posted by jimslyp69One thing that always helps: I use cakewalk, Sonar 4 the latest version.
Does anyone know how to configure MIDI in fruity loops to accomodate a MIDI keyboard. I am lost.
It has Midi tracks and acoustic and you can mix and match. The
biggest thing is to have separate HD for programs, whatever you use
and another HD just for the audio or Midi. Calkwalk has a great
midi suite called project 5 that does for midi what sonar does
for audio. Sonar does midi just fine but project 5 is made just for
midi. I record with my band the gladsmiths and we do mostly
acoustic but I love synths too. My daughter got her Ba at
berkelee in boston and ma in music at Wesleyan and now is
going to UCLA in the fall to finish out the Phd, her degree at
Berkelee was in syth sound design and composition so she would
definitely be the one to ask, I will give you her e mail on a private
line if you want. She is teaching in Brazil right now but is going
for a sabattical to get her Phd soon. Her hubby has a phd in
Statistical physics and will take on a position as a post doc slave while
she finishes hers. What worked for me was a USB port midi I/O
I think Yamaha makes one, don't use the rs 232, they suck.
I use an RME hammerfall digiface for I/O it works with midi and
straight audio, has self testing, 24 bit 96 K sample/second
capability but I only use 16 bit 44.1 so far, sounds great for me.
when you use a separate HD for midi or audio there is less stress
on the HD, the programs are on one and it does its whizzing around
for that but if the HD has to whizz around just to store data from
midi or audio it works twice as hard and data gets lost, I found that
out the hard way, fortunately when I wasn't recording anything worth
a crap back a few years ago but now I would hate to lose tracks.