Getting Started With Midi Sequencing

[richiebee]

Well, in my opinion you need to decide to go one way or the other. Both ways require a fairly significant investment so it doesn't make sense to go both ways - you'll end up spending much more money, or doing without.

If you go with internal sounds (and I would... it makes life so much easier), you'll need a computer upgrade to do any signficiant amount of work without constantly freezing tracks to give you back processor overhead or RAM. Then in terms of software, you want a good DAW (like Cubase), a good sampler (Kontakt), a good few libraries, and possibly some synth plugins (maybe Reaktor or Absynth or one of the billions of others out there).
What style of music do you do?

[sicksgun]

we play punk, a little ska and some rockabilly kinda style.

[richiebee]

So it seems like external synths might do you then, and then use the editing capabilities of your DAW. Unless I'm missing something, you don't actually have a need for a sampler. Do you have a full band, or are you making up for something missing - like drum machine instead of a drummer or whatever...

[sicksgun]

it is just two of us, I am the drummer and I also play some guitar and some vocals. he plays most all of the guitar on other songs and plays bass, it is like musical chairs a little. we would not mind being able to sample maybe some speeches or weird random stuff, but we don't need any instruments.

[mmaduonyeuwa]

Hello, everyone. Today is my first day on this forum. This is a totally new experience for me so be nice to me, please. Thanks.
I came here hoping that someone would help me solve a problem that I have with one of my PCs. Let me say that I have two PCs and that I use the same MIDI software on both. On the first computer there is absolutely no conflict. Yet the second PC freezes for an instant as I begin sequencing. Could this be a timing issue or what? I hope that someone out there will be able to help me. Thank you very much.

mmaduonyeuwa.

[P.P.T.]

It looks like this "sticky" thread isn't sticking.

I found it at the bottom of page 1.

[Slicko]

Very nice!!! the best explaned yet.. and I looked all over the net. I got my keyboard(fullsize) up and running on my cpu now....thanks to this site and this thread.....THANK YOU!!!!


Slicko

[broberts09]

i have a question...i have an alesis SA-16 drum machine and im going to buy the tascam US-144 interface here pretty soon. It comes with cubase le 4...i was wondering if i can record my drum machine as a midi on there???

[garww]

Originally Posted by broberts09

i have a question...i have an alesis SA-16 drum machine and im going to buy the tascam US-144 interface here pretty soon. It comes with cubase le 4...i was wondering if i can record my drum machine as a midi on there???

That would be up to your drum machine. The other stuff should be OK.

[broberts09]

so what are you saying? if my drum machine is compatible with cubase le 4?