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Is it safe to plunge into a USB Midi Controller, or is it crash and freeze city?
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Is it safe to plunge into a USB Midi Controller, or is it crash and freeze city?
Im seriously thinking of picking up an EZBus from Event.
http://www.event1.com/Products/Digital/EZbus.html Looks very versitile. My son uses one and he has no complaints yet ... wrote in message . .. Hi, Tried google: But you guys know best: Are USB midi controllers stable with Cubase, Reason, Pro Tools 6.1? USB Midi sounds convenient...but I hear it likes to giggle at the user, then crash. Many say one is better off using a midi cable to the joystick port of your PC. I used midi to SB Live Drive ports...worked reliably. Others say that Athlon motherboards with Via chipsets won't work reliably with USB midi. Just plugging into a usb port and working stabley with Cubase...really seems too good to be true. I am looking to buy a midi keyboard, and there seem to be two options: Category 1.) For about 200 - Buy a non USB midi keyboard/synth eg. Casio WK1630(76keys), or Yamaha DGX202(76keys) or Yamaha PSR292(61keys). These have no usb hookups but lots of sound and features, and can connect via midi cable to joystick port (most common?) or SB Live Drive midi ports. Category 2.) For a little less, buy a soundless Midi controller like the Evolution MK-249c, or the Miditech 49key - I avoid the Midiman Oxygen types with 10 keys - Man...I have cousins with more fingers than that!! The main differences I see are that category 2 has usb, less keys, and controller knobs. Category 1.) has sound, more keys, no knobs, no usb. The Category 1.) keyboards also have lots and LOTS of featuers, syntehsizers, sound banks, voices, etc. So why would I buy a soundless midi controller? Are the usb and knobs that great? I want this mainly to play keyboards, use Cubase, and compose. I will be doing lots of PC based synthesizers like Native Instruments B4, Lots of VST plugins, Lots of soft synths. But can't I do all of this with Category 1 - the Yamaha/Casio variety...and more? Aren't the soundless USB controllers more limited...save for USB and knobs? Are the knobs great with VST's? Does USB Midi really work? Thanks for sharing your experiences!!!!!! I wish there were a cheap keyboard with sound, features AND USB and knobs. Love, Me!!!! |
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Is it safe to plunge into a USB Midi Controller, or is it crash and freeze city?
pc or mac?
"Chip Borton" schreef in bericht ... Im seriously thinking of picking up an EZBus from Event. http://www.event1.com/Products/Digital/EZbus.html Looks very versitile. My son uses one and he has no complaints yet ... wrote in message . .. Hi, Tried google: But you guys know best: Are USB midi controllers stable with Cubase, Reason, Pro Tools 6.1? USB Midi sounds convenient...but I hear it likes to giggle at the user, then crash. Many say one is better off using a midi cable to the joystick port of your PC. I used midi to SB Live Drive ports...worked reliably. Others say that Athlon motherboards with Via chipsets won't work reliably with USB midi. Just plugging into a usb port and working stabley with Cubase...really seems too good to be true. I am looking to buy a midi keyboard, and there seem to be two options: Category 1.) For about 200 - Buy a non USB midi keyboard/synth eg. Casio WK1630(76keys), or Yamaha DGX202(76keys) or Yamaha PSR292(61keys). These have no usb hookups but lots of sound and features, and can connect via midi cable to joystick port (most common?) or SB Live Drive midi ports. Category 2.) For a little less, buy a soundless Midi controller like the Evolution MK-249c, or the Miditech 49key - I avoid the Midiman Oxygen types with 10 keys - Man...I have cousins with more fingers than that!! The main differences I see are that category 2 has usb, less keys, and controller knobs. Category 1.) has sound, more keys, no knobs, no usb. The Category 1.) keyboards also have lots and LOTS of featuers, syntehsizers, sound banks, voices, etc. So why would I buy a soundless midi controller? Are the usb and knobs that great? I want this mainly to play keyboards, use Cubase, and compose. I will be doing lots of PC based synthesizers like Native Instruments B4, Lots of VST plugins, Lots of soft synths. But can't I do all of this with Category 1 - the Yamaha/Casio variety...and more? Aren't the soundless USB controllers more limited...save for USB and knobs? Are the knobs great with VST's? Does USB Midi really work? Thanks for sharing your experiences!!!!!! I wish there were a cheap keyboard with sound, features AND USB and knobs. Love, Me!!!! |
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Is it safe to plunge into a USB Midi Controller, or is it crash and freeze city?
PC - Gigabyte 7vtxe / Biostar m7viq pro / ECS k7ama these are the
three I have now...but I could switch to a board known to work great with audio...there are so many boards with apparently nice soundstorm, sb live / and nvidia chips built in...I wonder if they would work as well as a basic sb live platinum pci card... In article , says... pc or mac? "Chip Borton" schreef in bericht ... Im seriously thinking of picking up an EZBus from Event. http://www.event1.com/Products/Digital/EZbus.html Looks very versitile. My son uses one and he has no complaints yet ... wrote in message . .. Hi, Tried google: But you guys know best: Are USB midi controllers stable with Cubase, Reason, Pro Tools 6.1? USB Midi sounds convenient...but I hear it likes to giggle at the user, then crash. Many say one is better off using a midi cable to the joystick port of your PC. I used midi to SB Live Drive ports...worked reliably. Others say that Athlon motherboards with Via chipsets won't work reliably with USB midi. Just plugging into a usb port and working stabley with Cubase...really seems too good to be true. I am looking to buy a midi keyboard, and there seem to be two options: Category 1.) For about 200 - Buy a non USB midi keyboard/synth eg. Casio WK1630(76keys), or Yamaha DGX202(76keys) or Yamaha PSR292(61keys). These have no usb hookups but lots of sound and features, and can connect via midi cable to joystick port (most common?) or SB Live Drive midi ports. Category 2.) For a little less, buy a soundless Midi controller like the Evolution MK-249c, or the Miditech 49key - I avoid the Midiman Oxygen types with 10 keys - Man...I have cousins with more fingers than that!! The main differences I see are that category 2 has usb, less keys, and controller knobs. Category 1.) has sound, more keys, no knobs, no usb. The Category 1.) keyboards also have lots and LOTS of featuers, syntehsizers, sound banks, voices, etc. So why would I buy a soundless midi controller? Are the usb and knobs that great? I want this mainly to play keyboards, use Cubase, and compose. I will be doing lots of PC based synthesizers like Native Instruments B4, Lots of VST plugins, Lots of soft synths. But can't I do all of this with Category 1 - the Yamaha/Casio variety...and more? Aren't the soundless USB controllers more limited...save for USB and knobs? Are the knobs great with VST's? Does USB Midi really work? Thanks for sharing your experiences!!!!!! I wish there were a cheap keyboard with sound, features AND USB and knobs. Love, Me!!!! |
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Is it safe to plunge into a USB Midi Controller, or is it crash and freeze city?
wrote in message ...
Hi, Tried google: But you guys know best: Are USB midi controllers stable with Cubase, Reason, Pro Tools 6.1? USB Midi sounds convenient...but I hear it likes to giggle at the user, then crash. Many say one is better off using a midi cable to the joystick port of your PC. I used midi to SB Live Drive ports...worked reliably. I think you have your answer right there -- in the PC world, this is an established and reliable standard. If all you're trying to do is get basic MIDI in and out of your PC, it will should work fine. Others say that Athlon motherboards with Via chipsets won't work reliably with USB midi. Just plugging into a usb port and working stabley with Cubase...really seems too good to be true. I am looking to buy a midi keyboard, and there seem to be two options: Category 1.) For about 200 - Buy a non USB midi keyboard/synth eg. Casio WK1630(76keys), or Yamaha DGX202(76keys) or Yamaha PSR292(61keys). These have no usb hookups but lots of sound and features, and can connect via midi cable to joystick port (most common?) or SB Live Drive midi ports. Category 2.) For a little less, buy a soundless Midi controller like the Evolution MK-249c, or the Miditech 49key - I avoid the Midiman Oxygen types with 10 keys - Man...I have cousins with more fingers than that!! The main differences I see are that category 2 has usb, less keys, and controller knobs. I don't see any reason to get a USB keyboard unless you want to use one as a doodle pad with a laptop. I have an MidiMan Oxygen8, and it's a cheap, mushy board: fine for tapping stuff in, but not a lot of fun to play. I use it to screw around with Reason on my iBook, but it mostly gathers dust. Category 1.) has sound, more keys, no knobs, no usb. The Category 1.) keyboards also have lots and LOTS of featuers, syntehsizers, sound banks, voices, etc. If you are a keyboard player, then the thing that really matters is how the keyboard feels to your hands. You can add all the sounds you want with synth modules and/or software synths, but if you don't have a good vibe with your keyboard, it's all gonna suck. So why would I buy a soundless midi controller? Are the usb and knobs that great? I want this mainly to play keyboards, use Cubase, and compose. I will be doing lots of PC based synthesizers like Native Instruments B4, Lots of VST plugins, Lots of soft synths. But can't I do all of this with Category 1 - the Yamaha/Casio variety...and more? Yup. Aren't the soundless USB controllers more limited...save for USB and knobs? Seems that way to me, yes. I don't view USB as an important factor, however. Are the knobs great with VST's? Does USB Midi really work? Mousing two virtual knobs in different directions at the same time would be, um, interesting. If you need to do a lot of knob twisting, check out the Phat Boy: http://www.keyfax.com/keyfax/storephat.html I've never used it, but it has been around for a while. Native Instruments used to sell it from their web store, but it looks like the Midiman borg have taken them over. Thanks for sharing your experiences!!!!!! I wish there were a cheap keyboard with sound, features AND USB and knobs. FWIW, I have a MOTU Micro Express USB, and it works fine with my iBook, Power Mac, and Athlon (SiS 735 chipset). I use an aging Kawai K11 as a controller, but I can unplug it from all the rest of that crap and use it all by itself to make what passes for music in my world -- something you can't do with any of the MIDI controllers. It can suck to be tethered to a computer if you want to jam with friends. |
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