Hi Nick. I say if you can run a virtual machine, virtualize Mac. You might be interested in getting protools/logic, but if you're not, just install the basic Mac OS and use something like Garageband.
That should work for your needs. Jorge On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Nick Adamson wrote: > Hi All. > > I'm new to the list, I'm nick, a software engineer from the UK. > > When I was in my teens I did quite a bit of messing around with midi. I used > cakewalk express and used their virtual piano software as an input device. > This was on a windows 98 box. > > Recently I've wanted to get back to doing a bit of composing again so managed > to find the cakewalk express disk and had a play around. cakewalk seems to > work fine on my XP laptop but the midi out on xp seems to have about half a > second latency making it unworkable. > > I've tried downloading the yamaha soft synth which seemed to have the same > problem. I've also tried using fluid synth which claims to be a real-time > sound font synth. I don't know much about sound fonts and although the > latency was better with that it still wasn't usable and XP seemed to grind to > a crawl. > > I'd be happy to here any suggestions for getting this to work so that I can > have playback and record at the same time. > The box isn't the best in the world but it's way more powerful than the old > windows 98 box I had. I can run virtual machines on it so it should be easily > powerful enough to do midi. > > Any ideas gladly received. > Thanks. > Nick. > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
