midi help... Audiophile 2496
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Posted on Dec 19, 2004 06:01 pm
saytre
Member Since: Dec 19, 2004
hello and thank you for reading this.
I had been using an audigy 2 zs sound card to
record music with propeller heads reason.worked fine except some latency issues.Just recently upgraded
to m-audio 2496 card in hopes of even better audio production except now I have no function of my midi
keyboard.Major bummer here i have read that the card
doesn't have built in midi or something to that.I have been all over the web hoping to find some info to no avail.I hope someone can assist me me in what i need to do to be able to use my keyboard with reason and other vst instruments
i am using:
xp pro
athlon xp1900
512 ram
audiophile 2496 sound card
agp graphics
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Dec 19, 2004 06:28 pm The Audiophile does not have a built in wavetable, which is the actual audio sounds that the MIDI data turns in to. The Audiophile only passes the data in and out of it to recieve it from one device and send it to another.
I don't use Reason, so I can't speak for that, but VST and DX instruments generally use samples of some sort, such as wave files, mp3 files , sound fonts or things of that nature to turn the MIDI data into sound...therefore, your controller keyboard should work fine in those cases.
I had the Audiophile and recently switched to the ESI Juli@ and it has the same issue regarding no wavetable. My Radium49 however, still works fine by just triggering audio samples from within the computer itself.
Dec 19, 2004 06:28 pm service.bfast.com/bfast/c...mp;bfmtype=gear
This is what you should've got but there's plenty other option's if you just want to add on to what you already have check this out
service.bfast.com/bfast/c...mp;bfmtype=gear
There's many others out there but i don't know your budget or favorite brands or anything so just take a look around what your looking 4 is a midi interface check out Musicians friend theres a link on this site hope iv'e been of some assistance
Dec 19, 2004 06:31 pm oh yeah i just figured you were talking about the pci version and Db I assume is thinking you have the usb version .....so wich one do you have?
Dec 19, 2004 06:34 pm I assume he has the PCI version...
Dec 19, 2004 06:36 pm and welcome to HRC, saytre :-)
Dec 19, 2004 06:48 pm My bad for some reason i thought the pci version didn't have any midi capabilities so i figured no wonder they couldn't use there keyboard lol
Dec 19, 2004 07:19 pm the audiophile will work with VST instruments as long as the samples are bundled into the program. reason will work. but there may be settings to make in places you might not suspect. i figured it out just by systematically adjusting everything but i no longer remember what the specific problems i had were. keep playing with it, post any settings and your progress here and you should be able to get it working.
