It's sounds like you're pretty new to all this still Taxi - and with OP and even a a cheapy Creative Keyboard, you're miles ahead of many of the greats you listen too. It's ALL there, I swear bro! Hardware stuff gets really tricky, and in this day of age unneccessary. Unless you know you want to run a guitar through a VH PLG board, resample it as a AWM, make a voice with it and feed it through a Tornado Effect on a EX5 - while the MIDI from it controls a Akai Sampler playing backwards Viola Loops from East/West that you've transposed and matched the key with already,,,, You can make just as much mess in OP with Plucked String, a Rotary Speaker effect insert, and link it to a OP Sampler playing some SF2 you found on the net.
MIDI is like 'english' now on the net. Everyone around the world uses it, and there's a myriad of standards for 'proper english' - but as long as you can say 'Yo, wats up!' and someone responds back 'Hey Cuz, nuttin much' - that's pretty well the language of making music in OP and other suites. MIDI is like going to Oxford to pontificate on the moral fabric and ethnicentricities of dialects and accents - if you know what I mean? Shit bro, you just trying to keep it real.
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hardware related questionLast edited by Dungeon Studio on Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:46 am, edited 1 time in total.
hardware related questionyou don't need to understand midi !
a midi controller is a keyboard with no sound engine you will use any vsti you want including orion synth of course 1-: plug your midi controller 2-: move a knob or a fader inside orion 3-: ctrl-L 4-: move a knob or a fader on your midi controller 5-: you can edit your sound with your midi controller ! look for a korg microkontrol, an akai mpk or an axiom Yamaha CS-30, Roland SH-1, Roland MKS70, Focusrite Scarlett 18i6, Yamaha FS1R, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Novation Remote 37SL, Korg Legacy, Alesis M1Active 520, Novation Launchpad Pro, Push2, Intel i7-7700HQ
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I think it's a great option, although I would probably go with the Xio49, as it's a newer machine which is supposed to have a much better sounding on-board synth. Dell G7 (Hexa-Core i7)|Cubase Pro 10||Analog Keys|Ultranova|MicroMonsta|Uno|Skulpt|Craft Synth 2.0|
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hardware related questionwell ccarrieres has tried to tell you what midi controller is for. here is another ..... A midi controller is like a piano, but when you press the keys no sounds come out of it! To get the sounds you hook the midi controller to orion and highlight a synth. Then when you press the keys on the controller, you hear sound!!! Now here is where it gets exciting. Midi controllers also come with knobs. Your assign these knobs to a knob on software synth and presto! as you move the knob on you controller, it will also move the knob on the synth on your screen :smiele2: well thats midi for dummies chapter 1. For other chapters you have to buy my book, which is sadly out of print indefinitely Last edited by suneel on Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:24 am, edited 1 time in total.
hardware related questionAs to controllers, yes - alot of the USB keyboards have all the amenities and then some these days. There's also drum controllers like Bones mate uses. Can be a smallish box with pads to a real looking drum set. It operates similar to a MIDI keyboard, except the keys are 'pads or heads' in that case. Then there is X/Y pads like Korg's Nano controller, ribbon controllers, MIDI gloves, electric guitars, you name it.
But for me I use a cheapy Creative board now with no knobs or wheels. Any 'MIDI control' I may need in OP I work virtually with my mouse on the VST knob, draw in manually, or use the LFO tool et al. So again, you don't need anything with 88 knobs or sliders. A keyboard with a Pitch Bend wheel and a Modulation Wheel would probably be plenty if just producing music at home with OP. If going live, take a tip from Bones and the others. They seem like good hands on rigs.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! now i sort of get it... thanks sunil... so... to clarify that i'm on the same track as your information... this is what i understood... there's a midi controller, and then there's also OP... i plug the midi controller in, and turn on OP... i assign a virtual synth to a midi and the knobs respectively, k? so if i press the notes on my keyboard, they shall be played out of the virtual synth and the sound will be coming out of my speakers? and turning knobs on my midi will result in turned knobs on the virtual synth? did i get it correct?
hardware related questionYou got it Taxi. It's just a 'controller'. You control what you play, via the keys - how it sounds, via the knobs. And again, the MIDI spec is pretty well non-existant now. Most VST's and OP have what is called 'MIDI Learn' as CC was pointing out. So you play something on your keyboard and want to control the Cutoff with a knob by your right hand. Simply right click on the Cutoff knob on your VST synth and select 'Link To Next Controller' - wiggle the knob by your right hand, and ta-da! The knob on screen now moves exactly as you turn it on your keyboard!
You can get fancier with the MIDI spec and have Modulation Wheel (the warble of a note like a lead guitar) control the Volume of another synth or effect. This is when OP and synths just aren't smart enough, and when you need to know 'the MIDI Standards'. But even with OP, there's ways around it without even knowing the 'standards'. But for now, just worry about playing those keys and wiggling that knob. Last edited by Dungeon Studio on Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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hahahahahahahaha!!! I've finally grown SMARTER!!! after 3 whole years, I finally know how to make the midi work... so i guess i am worthy and wise enough to get the following keyboard... right? http://www.novationmusic.com/products/a ... /x_station it's a synthesizer and a midi controller and an audio interface... i won't be using the audio interface part though because I already have one for my guitars and mic... but I sure as pie and penguins could make use of the synth & midi part of it. plus it's cheap.
hardware related questionYes, that's a good one indeed to get. But again - do you plan on taking it to jams and gigs? And you seem happy with your current Audio Input device. If just using it at home with OP on your computer, it's a bit much. Where a cheaper and easier to use M-Audio controller would do. But if you plan on jacking your keyboard into a friends guitar amp and do a little soloing to impress the ladies, the X Station would be the one to go with then,
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well, i'll have to be honest, it's for personal use, I just make music for myself, how I like, no friends/band involved in the process (I'm quite bossy and want everything to sound how I want it...), and after that, I just post it on the internet and go tell all my internet contacts to go check it out if they want and let my friends know, and then, after that, I don't know about them, but it stays with me and I listen to it; however, i am thinking of going further with my own personal music that i create, sort of experimenting around with progression and attempt my hand at technicality and play around with structures and time signatures. and setting up Orion accordingly kind of gets a bit too much for me, so i want to be able to play the chords and minor piano/techno leads my self. and this keyboard can allow me to master the Midi technology while I still carry on with my music with the "Synthesizer"-part. btw... here's my page... http://www.soundclick.com/theblacksheepthewhitebunny it's all done with Orion and Adobe Audition... all the music was made through Orion because I wasn't any good with my guitar back then and playing bass was a little too hard on the fingers and I didn't even have any audio interface or money to support myself, so everything was done through Orion and vocals/effects through Adobe Audition... but it still wisn't no where to as close to any one on this site... p.s. i won't be abandoning OP at all, it's still going to be the base to my compositions and still my drum machine and the person that made this software did an awesome job at making it so professional, yet so friendly. other ones were either too beginner, or... simply too hard to use...
hardware related questionInteresting music - almost 'gothic grunge' in a way? Then you get into the techno stuff with Blaze, that was pretty cool!
So it sounds like you know keyboards and chords for sure. One thing I must say is it pays to have a BIG keyboard in that case. Again, you don't need a lot of sounds and knobs on board. I just find these little 2 or 3 octave jobs so limiting in just 'playing music' on them. Alright for production and lathering. But I think my left hand has totally forgotten bass by now. Last edited by Dungeon Studio on Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.
hardware related questionI use my left hand for other things.
hardware related questionI know, I know - it feels like another person.
hardware related questionEspecially if you lie on it for five minutes beforehand.
hardware related questionhahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
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