Having trouble recording my MIDI keyboard with Cantabile

[TiUser]

The other day, I found a velocity curve MIDI filter that's already built into Cantabile! It seemed to work all right, but I'm not sure I could find it again.

That's the price if everything is possible...

I recommend applying this at rack level - means opening the midi filters from the racks tool menu. So you can adjust you favorite curve for your piano but leave another rack for the organs untouched.

Applying filters at slot level in a rack can quickly become messy, so maybe for a rule of thumb, apply midi filters on the highest level.

Another good location to globally apply filters could be the midi routing table, I just don't do this because of the confusing pass through and event stealing behavior there which quickly becomes very technical when subsessions are involved...

I'm back to my wish Cantabile had some better gui for some things...

[PixelOz]

I think it's true that even if you have had a bit more trouble with Firewire there are a lot of people with successful Firewire and USB setups but I think that if I have to choose between Firewire or USB I'll go with USB because I think that it has less chances of becoming obsolete and there are far more computers out there with it than with Firewire by a wide margin.

If one wants absolute performance with the lowest latency then a bus is the way to go but yes it's sad that there are still relatively few sound cards out there with the newer PCI Xpress bus but I guess we will have to wait until companies catch up with that.

Cantabile does have the MIDI curve adjustments. I believe you have to go to the panel to the right at the top (Show/Hide panels)and activate the MIDI Routing Table panel from there and then from that panel you have to activate the MIDI Filters window and that's were you can put your custom velocity curves but this is available only in the commercial versions not in the older free versions but if you do have the commercial version you can adjust it.

I haven't tested the keyboards in the new computer yet cause I'm still waiting for my niece to bring me back my keyboard but when she does I tell you how it went.

Well now that you mentioned that older Sound Blaster cards drivers can have latency problems how do the new ones compare to that? I mean are the newer ones like the Audigy 2 or the X-fi better in that aspect or not? If so what would be the oldest one that you would recommend if somebody decided to buy a Sound Blaster, Audigy, Audigy 2, X-fi? or none of those anyway?

I know about the problem that some sound cards are good for 3D game sound but not so good for the professional musician and viceversa. Are any of the newer Sound Blasters better in the latency department? any of the more expensive ones? I know that they are still not professional sound systems in audio quality either but if any of them have decent enough audio quality and good 3D game audio performance they may be a good compromise for home musicians or hobbyists or maybe again only the high end models of the Sound Blaster line. Do any models from their E-mu line have good gaming performance? What are your thoughts on all this?

[lallis]

Well now that you mentioned that older Sound Blaster cards drivers can have latency problems how do the new ones compare to that? I mean are the newer ones like the Audigy 2 or the X-fi better in that aspect or not? If so what would be the oldest one that you would recommend if somebody decided to buy a Sound Blaster, Audigy, Audigy 2, X-fi? or none of those anyway?

One good musician I know really likes his X-Fi EXTREME GAMER for all musical purposes. However, he admits it has the same borderline latency as ever. For me, a couple of Audigies serve only as Soundfont players and MIDI interfaces. For those purposes, one Soundblaster is almost as good as another, although Audigies have an edge for Soundfont play. Old SB Live! cards, however, can be found for free.

As a musician's soundcard, many better alternatives to Soundblaster are available, at good prices. But if you want to use your present SB, to stay on budget, it can sound decent, and you may work around its shortcomings.

Really, though, I suggest you don't buy any new Soundblaster for a musician's soundcard.