midi

[tastytasty]

Heyho, Anybody out there who can help with mastering midifiles, my problem is that any electric guitar sounds are very poor, I use to have a pc years ago that produced very good voicings and decided to upgrade to soundblaster live, audigy and cannot get the same quality. Can anyone help. thanks
Bob

[lucky1950]

Hi Tastytasty !
Have You insert to guitar sounds CC controllers
cc - 91 - reverb
cc - 93 - chorus
Some music cards have poor guitar sound , it can be interesting that some cheap cards may have guitars better sounding .
In my opinion just try to change those two parameter , if will not help , try to copy some guitar to another track , change Cc10 in new track to another site , put completely different chorus and reverb and listen , how You like it .Try to make some experiments to find in which position sounding better .You can also in new copied truck shift clock .
regards - Lucky

[oldsage]

if you like send me your midi and i,ll enhance the sounds for you.then you can look at the midi and see what i have changed and give you some idea of what to do yourself.oh what program are you using to edit your midi files? steve

[gspro]

I don't use PC. I'm on a Mac so, if your file is GM, GS or generic, like oldsage said, I'll be more than glad to help enhance the sound.

[tastytasty]

thanks for the reply, still trying different ideas here, I was hoping toget it down to simple editing. I have been told a mac pro laptop plays files perfect.
thanks for offer
Bob

gspro said:

I don't use PC. I'm on a Mac so, if your file is GM, GS or generic, like oldsage said, I'll be more than glad to help enhance the sound.

[JazzCat]

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thanks for the reply, still trying different ideas here, I was hoping toget it down to simple editing. I have been told a mac pro laptop plays files perfect.
thanks for offer
Bob
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I don't know who told you that but the kind of computer you play a file on has absolutely nothing to do with the sound quality. The sound CARD, the synth instrument sounds are what matters. If you have lousy synth guitar sounds then that's what you've got.

Also your Audigy sound card has 2 separate synths that you can try. Synth A and SW synth. ( Synth B is exactly the same as synth A. It is where you can load your own sound font set if you choose to.
If you are using synth A reverb and chorus setting will have no affect. They might on SW synth, but I don't think they do. I haven't tested it.
Cat >^..^<

[midimart]

The only suggestion I can make is..... Don't use the internal sound card, most I have tried sounds like a child's toy piano or a £30 Casio that kids get for Xmas.

Invest in a sound module or If you have a little extra cash - A GOOD keyboard. Even the Roland VSC is not as good as a dedicated machine....

You not get better.....!

[levi2]

true about the vsc but i think yamaha softsynth is quite good if you have no cash to fork out staraight away basicaly youwill be able to get by with it but like glen says none are as good as a standalone sound module not even the edirol hyper canvas

[acre]

Hey Tasty!

By using a sound card I assume you're using some of the internal voices contained within. I agree with the moderator. I real dedicated sound module or keyboard would be best. If you ever decide to convert your MIDI files to audio for eventual burning to a CD, Sound Blaster is hardly up to the task. I use an M-Audio Delta 1010. It's a bit on the pricey side at about $550.00 (Cnd) but it does have digital recording capability as well as, 24-bit analog recording specs. Hope this helps....Lee

P.S. To the moderator...I've been away for a bit and it's been my experience that the black backgrounds on websites are VERY hard on the eyes. Just a thought.

[Steptoe]

acre said:

P.S. To the moderator...I've been away for a bit and it's been my experience that the black backgrounds on websites are VERY hard on the eyes. Just a thought.

I agree that the black background is hard on the eyes (well my eyes anyway) But you can change it back to the original background by going to your profile and modifying it from there.

Cheers
John

[acre]

Thanks John! I didn't know I could do that. I actually love the colour scheme but I just find that reading a lengthy post, the lines of print actually get imprinted on my retinas when I look away. Thanks..........Lee

[john90]

i use\a vsc, vitchal sound canfus by roland and i find it easy to change key and change sound

[steveb]

I think you've have a bit tooooooo much whiskey there JohnO....

vitchal sound canfus

[JazzCat]

Thanks John! I didn't know I could do that. I actually love the colour scheme but I just find that reading a lengthy post, the lines of print actually get imprinted on my retinas when I look away. Thanks..........Lee

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And when it's a white or very light background the entire screen is 'imprinted' on your retinas. That's why when it's a lighter background an 'imprint' is less noticable.
Personally, I prefer the dark background as it reduces glare from the screen tremedously.