Re: [Finale] MIDI

[David H. Bailey]

On 1/25/2016 12:06 PM, Nick Raspa wrote:
> Many have mentioned Garage Band which is a good basic program, but there is 
> also another (free) program called Audacity.  Although I generally use Garage 
> Band for recording, I usually finish it up in Audacity.  You can also record 
> directly into Audacity just as you can with Garage Band and Audacity is 
> available for both Mac and PC.
>

Audacity is an audio recording program -- it doesn't have any midi sound 
built into it.

The original question was about a piece of software that would be free 
that would produce sounds when the student hooked the midi keyboard up 
to the computer.  The keyboard is simply a controller with no built-in 
sounds at all.




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Re: [Finale] MIDI

[Nick Raspa]

Many have mentioned Garage Band which is a good basic program, but there is 
also another (free) program called Audacity.  Although I generally use Garage 
Band for recording, I usually finish it up in Audacity.  You can also record 
directly into Audacity just as you can with Garage Band and Audacity is 
available for both Mac and PC.

Nick Raspa

> On Jan 25, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Dick Hauser  wrote:
> 
> 
 
> On 23 Jan 2016, at 21:54, Barbara Touburg  wrote:
> 
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> I need this for a piano pupil. They don't have a piano at home, so I 
> thought I could lend her my spare MIDI keyboard, but tonight i realised 
> that she may need some software as MIDI interface. To that end I'm using 
> Finale, of course, but I was wondering if there is other (preferably 
> free) that acts as an interface.
> 
> Barbara
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> I don’t know the PC world, but the Mac OS includes Garageband (of course) 
> which would provide the sound.  I bet there is a similar thing in the PC 
> world (some simple music play program included with the OS).  The interface 
> is hard to answer without knowledge of your students gear.  I suppose the 
> best world would be a USB keyboard.  Well, let us know what you wind up with.
> 
> 
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Re: [Finale] MIDI

[Dick Hauser]

>>> 
 On 23 Jan 2016, at 21:54, Barbara Touburg  wrote:
 
 Hi Chuck,
 
 I need this for a piano pupil. They don't have a piano at home, so I 
 thought I could lend her my spare MIDI keyboard, but tonight i realised 
 that she may need some software as MIDI interface. To that end I'm using 
 Finale, of course, but I was wondering if there is other (preferably 
 free) that acts as an interface.
 
 Barbara
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I don’t know the PC world, but the Mac OS includes Garageband (of course) which 
would provide the sound.  I bet there is a similar thing in the PC world (some 
simple music play program included with the OS).  The interface is hard to 
answer without knowledge of your students gear.  I suppose the best world would 
be a USB keyboard.  Well, let us know what you wind up with.


Dick H
OlyWa




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Re: [Finale] MIDI

[Nick Raspa]

Whoops - you’re right.  Sorry about that!

Nick Raspa

> On Jan 25, 2016, at 1:36 PM, David H. Bailey 
>  wrote:
> 
> On 1/25/2016 12:06 PM, Nick Raspa wrote:
>> Many have mentioned Garage Band which is a good basic program, but there is 
>> also another (free) program called Audacity.  Although I generally use 
>> Garage Band for recording, I usually finish it up in Audacity.  You can also 
>> record directly into Audacity just as you can with Garage Band and Audacity 
>> is available for both Mac and PC.
>> 
> 
> Audacity is an audio recording program -- it doesn't have any midi sound 
> built into it.
> 
> The original question was about a piece of software that would be free 
> that would produce sounds when the student hooked the midi keyboard up 
> to the computer.  The keyboard is simply a controller with no built-in 
> sounds at all.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Finale] MIDI

[David H. Bailey]

On 1/24/2016 2:51 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote:
> On 24-1-2016 18:20, Michael wrote:
>> It’s not just a question of an interface: you also need something that 
>> creates the piano sound. Here is a good free piano 
>> sample:http://www.ivyaudio.com/Piano-in-162
>>
>> As explained on the page, if you want to run it for free you need to 
>> download the SFZ version and load it into a free SFZ player such as Plogue 
>> sforzando, to be found here:http://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando/
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Michael
>
>
> Thannk you very much, Michael.
> I'll forward your message to the pupil's father.
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MuseScore is a free notation program which accepts midi input and will 
produce a sound.




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Re: [Finale] MIDI

[Michael]

Sorry, I don’t know.  The Ivy audio piano sample should download as a zip file 
from which you extract the sfz file. It’s pretty big, around 4.5 GB, and may be 
too much for some systems. For something a bit smaller and probably more 
manageable, there’s the Salamander grand piano, to be found here: 
http://freepats.zenvoid.org/Piano/ I just tried the first version in the list: 
seems to work OK.


> On 24 Jan 2016, at 20:49, Chuck Israels  wrote:
> 
> Michael,
> 
> I tried this - hoping it might be useful to me too.  I downloaded and opened 
> sforzando, but the piano sample does not download and open.  Can you suggest 
> what I might be doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
>> On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:20 AM, Michael  wrote:
>> 
>> It’s not just a question of an interface: you also need something that 
>> creates the piano sound. Here is a good free piano sample: 
>> http://www.ivyaudio.com/Piano-in-162
>> 
>> As explained on the page, if you want to run it for free you need to 
>> download the SFZ version and load it into a free SFZ player such as Plogue 
>> sforzando, to be found here: http://www.plogue.com/products/sforzando/
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> Michael
>> 
>>> On 23 Jan 2016, at 21:54, Barbara Touburg  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Chuck,
>>> 
>>> I need this for a piano pupil. They don't have a piano at home, so I 
>>> thought I could lend her my spare MIDI keyboard, but tonight i realised 
>>> that she may need some software as MIDI interface. To that end I'm using 
>>> Finale, of course, but I was wondering if there is other (preferably 
>>> free) that acts as an interface.
>>> 
>>> Barbara
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