rlarsonusa

Help For My Midi Impaired Keyboard Friend

Hi there,

I'm a old horn player in a R&B band with an old keyboard player that takes too much time between songs to change his keyboard settings and was wondering if there is a reasonably priced program that runs on a mac to help with this.

My midi skills are minimal since I currently only use it for input with Finale.

His set up is a couple of keyboards (Roland and Alessi, I believe), and they are midi capable. He also has a software program that has B3 sounds (B4?), but he's not ever used it on the gig.

Ideally, the software program would save the settings used for a particular song (for both keyboards and the sound module) and then, on the gig, just id the song we are going to play and midi would take care of the rest.

I've read about Reason and Ableton Live, but they seem to overkill for what's needed. He has a Macbook and assume it's Intel core duo. Don't know how much ram he has.

Thanks for any suggestions.

I've used Coaster in the past to create AIFF files for burning to CD, from records and tapes. It's been awhile since I used it last, and now when I do it, using a sample rate of 44100, the resulting file is half as long as the original and when listening, it's like  a 33 LP playing at 78 RPM.

When sampling at 22000, it sounds okay. But since I want to put these on CD, I would prefer the higher sampling rate.

I first thought the Coaster app had been corrupted, so I reinstalled. The problem didn't go away. Very weird.

I have a PowerMac G4, AGP w/ Dual 450.

Anyone have an idea? Thanks for your input.