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hardware related questionHi, I had a hardware related question... I am looking for a musical keyboard which I can use to edit existing sounds or create new ones from the existing ones, sort of like a synthesizer (i think), with the help of knobs and wheels and such... but, would there be one that allows the editing/creation of sounds and has a built in sampler as well?? Something that doesn't cost a ton?
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hardware related questionwell?? any one got any answers please?
hardware related questionI don't know of any hardware synths with a built in sampler.
hardware related questionthe waldorf blofeld can load stuff, but is not necesary a sampler
defenitely an awesome instrument though http://www.waldorfmusic.de/de/produkte/blofeld-keyboard
hardware related questioni would go with a midi controler :
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hardware related questionLots of synths with built in samplers, but are dated and/or expensive.
Roland Fantom, Yamaha Motif, Alesis something, Korg Triton, Emu, Kurzweil, etc. All great powerful synths, whether they're 2 or 20 years old. But if you got OP and all, I agree highly with CC's comment - just get a good controller today. Unless you're gigging and jamming and don't want mini keyboards and laptops on stage. Best advice if you do need some type of big crotch blocker, do a search on Google for 'Synthesizer and Sampler', and see what grabs your interest. Then with the above and a brand in mind add 'Buy Used' You may get what you're after cheap from a reputable store, or take your chances on Ebay.
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um, i don't mean to sound ignorant or stupid, but even after countless hours of reading on wikipedia about midi, i don't get anything... all i know is that it helps all instruments speak the same language through signals... so help me out here... how would a midi keyboard work with a guitar or an electric piano/workstation/synthesizer? please shed some light on to this with a simple example because i get nothing... how will a midi keyboard work with guitar/electric piano/workstation/synthesizer and why/what for does it have keys on it? what will those keys do?
hardware related questionYou plug in a midi controller and it controls stuff.
Totally awesome. I have one and I control stuff with it. Get one, you'd love it. ---=u f o=--- /Radiation Mutant / Snee-Nee-Iq
hardware related questionha
but seriously, reading your initial post: Synths - sound creation (Orion) Sampler - sound creation (Orion) Audio Editor - Editing sounds A midi controller can talk to hardware or software synths eg: plug it into Orion sampler and play some keys to trigger the sample at respective pitches inside the virtual sampler. Twist some knobs to modulate the samples inside the virtual sampler. Midi protocol is pretty chunky, but most users never get into the serious side, so from your point a midi controller is a synth that DOES NOT MAKE ANY SOUNDS OF ITS OWN. But it will talk to real or virtual machines that do, so MIDI IS YOUR FRIEND. ok bye Last edited by ufo on Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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yes... that's exactly what i was asking, how does it control stuff? give me an example...
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With a guitar? I don't think it would work with a guitar. I heard about MIDI guitars, but don't know if those actually make any sound on their own. And you can't control electric/acoustic guitar with a MIDI controller. As for controlling anything that already has keys on it via MIDI controller... why would you wanna do that, when you can already play those instruments, just like you'd play on a controller? The widely spread use of a MIDI is for host-outboard gear, or controller/synth-VST connectivity. Basically, what you can do with MIDI is, for example, make some patterns for some generators in Orion, assign them to basically transmit MIDI info out through the MIDI interface and make your synths play on their own. Another use of MIDI is controlling virtual instruments and wide variety of other stuff via a controller. You can literally play the VST via controller's piano keys, or control that or some other VST by assigning the controller's knobs to a certain command/event (knob, slider, etc) of the virtual instrument. SoundCloud ::: Facebook
hardware related questionMIDI is a digital language that synthesizers understand. It uses 16 separate channels, so you can control 16 different parts at the same time. Within each channel you can assign notes/chords and there are numbered controller signals. So something like filter cutoff could be assigned to controller number 14 on a particular synth, for example. If you have a MIDI controller transmitting on the same MIDI channel, and set one of it's knobs or faders to send a signal to controller number 14, it will control the filter cutoff of that instrument. You can use it so that one instrument can be controlled from another [or from a controller keyboard] or you can use it so that a master sequencer controls all your other synths.
As to your original question, you are not going to find anything that satisfies all your requirements. Dungeon Studio listed a few instruments that have most of the features you were asking for but none of them have knobs and faders for every parameter, so programming them can be tedious. My advice would be to use software synths and get a MIDI controller to give you some tactile feedback, if that's what you really want. Sampling, in particular, is orders of magnitude easier on a computer than it is in a hardware instrument. A lot of MIDI controllers have assignable presets so that you can set them up to control a number of different instruments. Of course, where this can be a little confusing is that a lot of software also allows you to assign controllers to parameters, so it's confusing as to where you should do it, e.g. Orion has "Link to next MIDI controller", but other instruments have hard-wired controller assignments [like the ones I make]. Hard-wired controller assignments makes more sense these days, where MIDI controllers are much more powerful and flexible, but 10 years ago most people would have been using a proper hardware synth as a controller with hard-wired controller assignments, as dedicated MIDI controllers are relatively new. Dell G7 (Hexa-Core i7)|Cubase Pro 10||Analog Keys|Ultranova|MicroMonsta|Uno|Skulpt|Craft Synth 2.0|
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hardware related questionhmmmm... i guess i should just stick to a normal synthesizer, and no sampler stuff... and like i said guys, i still can't seem to understand midi. i guess i've lost my brains. it just isn't my thing or something meant for me. btw, what do you guys think of novation x-station49?
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