Members d0zerz Posted April 10, 2007 Members Share Posted April 10, 2007 ...any ideas? Yeah I know -- no self respecting home-studio guy DOESN'T have a decent midi controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted April 10, 2007 Members Share Posted April 10, 2007 I've used the computer keyboard MIDI interfaces in other apps on occasion when I needed to get some MIDI notes in but the first thing I noticed was that the timing was way off. That's probably not quite the problem it was on older, slower computers but it was pretty well a deal-killer for me. I found it easier to just mouse notes onto the piano roll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members d0zerz Posted April 10, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 10, 2007 I've used the computer keyboard MIDI interfaces in other apps on occasion when I needed to get some MIDI notes in but the first thing I noticed was that the timing was way off. That's probably not quite the problem it was on older, slower computers but it was pretty well a deal-killer for me. I found it easier to just mouse notes onto the piano roll. Hmmm....I can't think of any reason with a decent PC that timing should really be an issue I wonder if cubase has any computer keyboard MIDI interfaces... *readsTFM* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted April 10, 2007 Members Share Posted April 10, 2007 Computers are a lot faster these days but keyboard input goes through a lot of "hands" in the OS... if you've ever done any application programming you probably know that upper level routines (ie, slower ones, in a manner of speaking) can "intercept" keystrokes... all those handlers take some time to process... it's not like a low level MIDI event handler programmed in an efficient lower level language like assembler or C and integrated into a more direct data stream within the OS (the MIDI layer, as it were -- in fact, one of the reasons for the pre OS X 10.2 Mac's poor MIDI response time vis a vis Windows 9x-and-up was because the "classic" Mac OS had no proper MIDI layer, depending instead on the Opcode OMS "add-in.") But, yeah, machines are faster now and that should at least cut down on the latency... THAT said... latency is probably not the biggest buggaboo but rather consistency of timing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zooey Posted April 11, 2007 Members Share Posted April 11, 2007 I've tried using the computer keyboard in Ableton Live and it is nearly impossible due to latency/timing issues. Plus, there's no velocity. This is on a brand new laptop using an application that is designed to be used with a computer keyboard. Same result on my older Mac. It flat out sucks, kids. I'd rather get the cheapest keyboard controller. You might even be able to find a Casio or Yamaha "consumer" keyboard that has MIDI ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members weeman Posted April 11, 2007 Members Share Posted April 11, 2007 direct x asio drivers............fruityloops as a composer software allows the keyboard to act as a midi controller. :)50ms latency via AC97soundcard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members weeman Posted April 11, 2007 Members Share Posted April 11, 2007 mybe rewire worksd with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 50ms of latency is as a matter of fact, a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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