 Newbie Question: Improving My Gm Sounds |
 Mon 9 Dec 2002, 14:13
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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 09-Dec 02 From: Colmar - FR Member No.: 9,950  |
I'm absolutely new to this so forgive me for going over old ground.
I've just bought a midiman 2x2 interface to hook my Yamaha P200 electric piano up to my G4 TiBook. I downloaded Pro Tools FREE as something to get started playing on and after a couple of hours I started to understand the basic functions of recording, playback, etc.. What has disappointed me is the quality of my mac's built-in GM sounds  they're awful! I know I can use my P200's piano sounds for midi playback, but what if I want realistic sounding drumkit, saxophone, and digeridoo all playing at the same time!?I've read various web info and I think I need either a hardware expander or a soft synth, but I don't really know where to start. Software sounds a better choice for me as I might be able to try out a few demos rather than buying the wrong piece of hardware! What I want to do at the moment is be able to write multi-track music and listen to a more realistic playback than my mac's midi sounds currently give me. any help appreciated. paul |
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Mon 9 Dec 2002, 14:38
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 Maniac Member  Group: Members Posts: 821 Joined: 25-Jun 01 From: Springfield - US Member No.: 1,082 |
I would look into something like Logic's Big Box if I were you. It comes with a few virtual instruments and a sample player that comes with nice selection of samples that may fill your desire for more realistic sounds. Plus if you want to do lots of midi work.... that would be the better app than PT. I love sample playback because I have samples from a very big and awesome sounding piano that sounds very realistic as well as flute and string samples that are terrific too. You can find more sampled instruments on the net to add later too.
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macmonkey Newbie Question: Improving My Gm Sounds Mon 9 Dec 2002, 14:13
macmonkey Thanks for the reply. Maybe that gives me somethin... Mon 9 Dec 2002, 17:35 Synthetic I understand what you are saying... unfortunately,... Mon 9 Dec 2002, 18:13 BagHun You can probably to get the "UglyVSTi" t... Mon 9 Dec 2002, 18:37 ryosode For OS 9, I actually like Virtual SoundCanvas, whi... Mon 9 Dec 2002, 21:57 BagHun I left out another good VSTi link:
http://www.kvr... Mon 9 Dec 2002, 22:08 Synthetic QUOTE (BagHun @ Dec 9 2002, 15:08)I left out ... Tue 10 Dec 2002, 17:04 BagHun Synthetic:
For your own knowledge I suggest you d... Tue 10 Dec 2002, 20:22
Synthetic hmm, that's a new one to me... will have to lo... Wed 11 Dec 2002, 14:32 |
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