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lavoisier
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Sound problem
« on: Oct 5th, 2010, 12:15pm » |
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I'm just learning to play a keyboard and have a Technics KN 2000. The trouble is I can't play midi through my keyboard from my laptop, there is no sound.
I've used Midi-Ox and all seems to be ok. Even the laptop keyboard when touched is coming up 'Note On' and 'Note Off'. There is just no sound. I have set output and input to USB cable and have had the KN 2000 set to GM on and off. I reset all midi channels on KN2000 to channel one and have had them from one through sixteen.
Can anybody please advise where I'm going wrong? 
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Re: Sound problem
« Reply #1 on: Oct 5th, 2010, 11:00pm » |
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Hi
I was unable to find a user manual for the KN2000.
Quite often there is a setting to enable and disable Midi input. This is true on my Roland RD170
If you know where there is a manual I would be happy to look through it to see.
Royce
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Re: Sound problem
« Reply #2 on: Oct 6th, 2010, 5:28am » |
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Thanks for your kind offer of help Royce.
I feel a complete fool now. I checeked the setup again from scratch and it seems one of the midi cables was attached to midi thru. It all works now I'm connected. Phew!
One thing I would like to ask is that the midi file sounds strange when played out of GM but fine with it. Can you possibly say why this is?
Sorry for wasting your time.
lavoisier
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Re: Sound problem
« Reply #3 on: Oct 7th, 2010, 9:14pm » |
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The GM (General Midi) is a Roland standard where certain sounds are placed in certain locations.
For example, the first preset is an acoustic piano. So you get your best Steinway preset and pop it into preset 1.
Acoustic Bass is 33 and Drums are on Channel 10.
So if i make a Midi file of a Jazz trio I could be pretty sure that I wouldn't get a flute playing the bass part and a choir singing the
piano part if I used GM and set the presets to 33 and 1 respectively.
Outside GM any preset can go any where.
This can be useful, for example, for live performance.
Song 1 - Organ changes to Piano
Song 2 - Piano to vibraphone to organ to harmonica solo
etc
Make patches
11 Organ
12 Piano
21 Piano
22 Vibraphone
23 Organ again
24 Harmonica
This makes it a bit easier under the stress of performance.
So there is a good reason to have both.
For info on GM....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI
Yamaha's version of GM is XG.
Hope this helps
Royce
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Re: Sound problem
« Reply #4 on: Oct 8th, 2010, 6:39am » |
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Thanks for taking the time to help me Royce. They must seem like simple questions.
I guess I'll pick it up as I go along. I've ordered a book from Amazon on Midi so hopefully I'll get more of an insight then.
Paul
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