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| Main - Computing - Midi control for computer | New thread | New reply |
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 Pokey Level: 57 Posts: 297/693 EXP: 1430743 Next: 55185 Since: 06-27-07 From: cKy Last post: 212 days Last view: 120 days |
Not completely sure how midi control works.
Sometime in the future, I'm gonna try to get myself a Roland GR-20 guitar synth. Roland GR-20 guitar synth pedal package (fuckin 500 dollars dude) (converts guitar string notes into midi note shit) It says it can output midi stuff, but I don't get it. My soundcard only has Output for speakers, mic, and line in. There's a front soundjack panel that also accesses for headphones and mic, but that is caved in. Midi In? I don't have that. My comp has a builton soundcard so I don't know. The real reason I want a guitar synth is to make osc sounds like squarewaves and synthetic soundwaves. The roland guitar synth seems to have patches like MIDI, and it has synth sounds, but I don't know if it has custom synth sounds. ____________________ 
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 Rex Level: 51 Posts: 95/533 EXP: 960505 Next: 53433 Since: 08-23-07 From: Las Vegas Last post: 4446 days Last view: 4249 days |
You need a new sound card that has native support for MIDI.
Which can probably cost a lot. |
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 CHIKKN NI A BAAZZKIT!!! 80's Cheerilee is best pony Level: 138 Posts: 655/5344 EXP: 30950682 Next: 712299 Since: 02-20-07 From: The Netherlands Last post: 4500 days Last view: 2636 days |
My old desktop PC I had before used a pretty damn old sound card. The joystick port doubled as a MIDI port, so that was pretty cool. I connected some kind of fisherpricey Keytar to it once, even though I can't play shit.
Sorry chungy. ____________________ Wife make lunch - Shampoo Opera - give it a spin Spare some of your free time? <GreyMaria> I walked around the Lake so many goddamn times that my sex drive was brutally murdered Kawa rocks  — byuu |
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Hats Steam Board2 group Level: 121 Posts: 2135/3965 EXP: 19782828 Next: 273868 Since: 02-19-07 From: Sweden, Skåne Last post: 3303 days Last view: 2054 days |
It's probably less common on modern computers, but I can't imagine a separate sound card with a MIDI port being too expensive.
Heh, I bet it was used more for gamepads than MIDI instruments too... ____________________ AIM: gamefreak1337, MSN: Emil_sim@spray.se, XMPP: ailure@xmpp.kafuka.org
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CHIKKN NI A BAAZZKIT!!! 80's Cheerilee is best pony Level: 138 Posts: 656/5344 EXP: 30950682 Next: 712299 Since: 02-20-07 From: The Netherlands Last post: 4500 days Last view: 2636 days |
Depends on your interests, I guess. And preferences in input devices. I myself highly prefer using the keyboard.
Interestingly, a friend of mine has recently brought in a sweet ass-synth. It has MIDI caps, but we both have laptops. *shoots self* Edit: Remind me to call Mom to check her fairly new system for a game port. ____________________ Wife make lunch - Shampoo Opera - give it a spin Spare some of your free time? <GreyMaria> I walked around the Lake so many goddamn times that my sex drive was brutally murdered Kawa rocks — byuu |
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Pokey Level: 57 Posts: 300/693 EXP: 1430743 Next: 55185 Since: 06-27-07 From: cKy Last post: 212 days Last view: 120 days |
What would Midi control do? It would do more than just control the midi sounds right? It can control anything that takes midi notes right?
The GR-20 seems to be a patch synth, so it seems more like a bunch of midi presets, when what I'm looking for personally is osc waveforms like sine, square, saw, triangle, to make custom synth sounds out of my guitar. ____________________
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Pokey Level: 57 Posts: 302/693 EXP: 1430743 Next: 55185 Since: 06-27-07 From: cKy Last post: 212 days Last view: 120 days |
I know about midi notes but I was thinking if the midi input would only do stuff to the midi drive or if it would make it compatable as data instead. ____________________
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CHIKKN NI A BAAZZKIT!!! 80's Cheerilee is best pony Level: 138 Posts: 662/5344 EXP: 30950682 Next: 712299 Since: 02-20-07 From: The Netherlands Last post: 4500 days Last view: 2636 days |
Synth keyboards with MIDI ports are MIDI controllers. They can send and recieve MIDI-standard data. This would be mostly program changes, note on/off... that kind of stuff.
Way I'd imagine it, if you let your PC play .MID files through the synth, it'd only send the actual commands without the delta time stamps. Same with recording from the synth. And then there's synths with their own recording memory, which would include the delta timing. ____________________ Wife make lunch - Shampoo Opera - give it a spin Spare some of your free time? <GreyMaria> I walked around the Lake so many goddamn times that my sex drive was brutally murdered Kawa rocks — byuu |
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Newcomer Level: 7 Posts: 3/7 EXP: 1403 Next: 45 Since: 08-04-08 Last post: 5587 days Last view: 5586 days |
i'm not going to advertise a product here, so just google
midi to usb My sister is the one into composition, but I do recommend M-audio products, as we have bought a couple and they run well with Linux. As for those of us stuck on laptops. If you listen to midi, I use timidity++ and a nice soundfont. Makes midis sound pretty darn good (although I don't listen to midis as much as I used to...) |
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I haven't seen it in quite a while, but it may have had a midi port... 