* From "Alessandro Montana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
thanx again for your responses towards the rm1x sluggish behaviour.
well all of yall seem to say that this comment that was made to me was
BS, so i'm gonna print here that person's exact explanation, after which i
hope you guys will comment on :
" > do the beats (on the RM1x/A3000 combo) for example sound sloppy?
Well it's not *that* bad, but the groove can suffer a bit.
A bit of judicious sample editing can correct things.
But, hey - it's not *wildly* out. I'm just real sensitive to this kind of
stuff. You can't hear it "sounding" out of time - it's just that somehow
it's lacking in sparkle.
But this isn't down to A3k defects or probably even sampler defects. I think
it's usually just down to the limitations of MIDI (which is very
underspecified for modern musical purposes).
To get around the problem (and to prove I wasn't imagining it), I spent a
huge wad of cash on a full-size mixing console and digital multitrack
recorder. Now, I record each MIDI part *seperately* onto multitrack, one at
a time, as opposed to just capturing it all in one go. Doing this means that
there's very little data going down the MIDI cables at any one time, and
thus eliminates "MIDI clogging" (which is the well-know phrase that
describes this problem).
The results? Astounding! - every drum beat feels right "on top" of the
music, and everything jams along real nicely. The difference is very
noticeable indeed, and I found that it was well worth the effort (but them
I'm fussy). It's worth noticing that even the instruction manual for my new
mixing desk points out that "tracklaying" parts will give you substantially
"tighter" results than sequencing them live.
The basic fact is that
MIDI doesn't cope well with complex, synchronous rhythm parts (I've been
using complex MIDI setups myself for over 15 years, and have pulled my hair
out on many occasions trying to prevent the drum/percussion beats
deteriorating as other parts are added to the sequence).
That's why many PC owners swear by sound cards that have more than one
seperately addressable MIDI output on them. They can use each output for
each of their seperate synthesizers (my Roland Sound Canvas Pro has two MIDI
inputs for example), and this spreads the load across multiple MIDI cables
and thus avoids squeezing all the data down a single MIDI output, leading to
a much tighter sound. These MIDI outs are of course all *seperately*
addressable - they are not copies of the same MIDI out data - they each
provide a different MIDI stream.
MIDI will slowly over the coming years be replaced by USB, and this problem
will eventually go away.
For now though, you've got to decide for yourself whether you can hear MIDI
delays, and whether they bother you. Remember there are literally thousands
of happy people out there who've used MIDI for years without even noticing
this problem. Others (such as me), find it really annoying, as it loses the
"edge" of the music, and we look for various workarounds.
An example of such a workaround, is to make sure that sounds with a slow
attack (strings, pads etc) are NOT programmed to land exactly on the beat -
put them a clock tick (or a few) in front or behind the beat). This frees up
more MIDI bandwidth on the beat, greatly increasing the chances of rhythm
parts holding together, and has no audibly detrimental effect on sounds with
a slow attack. " end of quote.
well is this guy a sound surgeon, or are you guys ears not good enuff
to notice what he's talking about??
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