On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:04:47 +0100, Wim Loos wrote > Dear all, > Here is a somewhat strange question on this forum. I''m going to sing > in a choir. For my rehearsal at home I bought on the internet a > keyboard, CME type M-Key. > The keyboard has an USB connexxion. On my computer Win7 is > installed. I downloaded several drivers, I still cannot get any > sound from that keyboard. The keyboard is recognized by the system > and the computer tells me that all setting are OK. Does anybody > know how to solve this problem.
You only bought a keyboard: that's like buying only the keyboard of a piano. That USB cable is used to send MIDI data to your computer which can be used to drive a MIDI (software) synthesizer or sample player running. So, you need to get one of these - there should be freeware/open source applications for windows (sorry, I'm using Linux exclusively). I _think_ qsynth (sample player) is available for Windows as well (http://qsynth.sourceforge.net/qsynth-index.html). You also will need a "SoundFont" (sampled sounds) to be used with qsynth or other sample players. For early music you might want to google for "Blanchet1720-440.sf2" which is a pretty nice Harpsichord soundfont. The "MIDI Yoke" program might be handy as well (IIRC it does a pretty good job connecting different MIDI applictions) If you need a piano sound the (commercial) PianoTeq seems like a nice app (I really like their 18th century fortepiano models). This is neither a sample player nor a syntesizer, the sounds a generated according to a mathematical model of the instrument. HTH Ralf Mattes > Best regards, Wim Loos > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes - Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg [email protected]
