Hi George.
Thanks for the suggestion but I don't believe that you can get a Mac based
virtual machine that'll run on a windows host.
I'd love to be wrong about this as I'd like to try out a MAC but with out
having to spend the big bucks on a system I may not like.
Thanks.
Nick.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jorge Paez" <[email protected]>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: latency using Midi on XP
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.
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