 Newbie Question: Improving My Gm Sounds |
 Mon 9 Dec 2002, 14:13
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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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Tue 10 Dec 2002, 20:22
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Synthetic:
For your own knowledge I suggest you download the "UglyVSTi" (from the link above) and at least read the accompanying instructions. The package includes a plugin for Pro Tools that allows the output of the UglyVSTi standalone application to be routed into Pro Tools via DirectConnect. Although users of this setup contend with the usual latency of DirectConnect, it allows them to get the output, one at a time, of VSTi into Pro Tools. I've used it and it works with most instruments (free or commercial) if you have enough RAM to allocate to UglyVSTi. Macmonkey, let me know if you try this or if you run into any problems. |
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macmonkey Newbie Question: Improving My Gm Sounds Mon 9 Dec 2002, 14:13
Synthetic I would look into something like Logic's Big B... Mon 9 Dec 2002, 14:38 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
Synthetic hmm, that's a new one to me... will have to lo... Wed 11 Dec 2002, 14:32 |
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