MIDI is one of the most original formats of digital media. Before attempting the troubleshooting, you can try to restart your Windows first and try to do the MIDI playback first. It can help you easily edit the control messages, transpose the music, change the tempo, mute desired MIDI channels and save the end results to disk.
It uses its built-in synthesizer to play MIDI files. You can also set QuickTime to use an external synthesizer instead of the built-in one.
Logic Pro X is more than a basic player, it is a comprehensive music production software to let you create, edit and deliver your best music. There are lots of websites that can be considered as online MIDI players.
However, the latency will most likely still be noticeable. PCI-based sound cards usually offer an improvement in sound quality and connectivity over on-board sound. However, once again, many do not come with ASIO drivers.
Cards with ASIO drivers are often at least partially intended for music development. Cards intended mainly for entertainment home theater, gaming, etc. Many older Creative Labs sound cards intended for audio development had the added benefit of hardware-level sound font support, meaning that the cards had a very easy-to-customize MIDI synthesizer. Unfortunately, this type of feature is increasingly hard to find as DAWs and PCs have become more powerful.
A list of sound-font compatibile devices can be found here:. Although obviously not a possibility in a completely freeware-based setup, there are some cheap USB audio interfaces that come with their own ASIO drivers and can give good latency with synthesizers. However, be warned that you get what you pay for in many ways.
Although not a perfect correlation, you do get what you pay for to some extent with audio interfaces. Extremely cheap audio interfaces often have sound quality caveats and do not necessarily come with ASIO drivers i.
More expensive boxes also usually offer more diverse connections, better mic preamps, and so on. Some are portable, others are intended to stay put. While convenient and usually with good performance when in one box, it is still quite common to have separate audio and MIDI interfaces, particularly for mobile setups where size needs to be minimized and both features may not be needed at the same time.
The cheapest audio interface option I have explored is the Behringer UCA , which is the only specific interface I will discuss here. The device also allows usage of multiple driver types simultaneously although only one program can be using the ASIO driver at any given time.
The sound quality is marginal and, when the device is under rather a lot of strain, it is prone to glitches in the audio: clicks, pauses, etc. Nevertheless, it is a great portable and incredibly cheap solution. This is extremely disappointing as the Behringer drivers worked far better. Sadly, I am not aware of any other devices in this price range that are good substitutes for the UCA series with the original Behringer drivers.
However, they are not guaranteed to work. Examples of strange behavior include showing up in device manager but refusing to send messages through or sending bad data even though the throughput lights blink as they should. If you have Windows 8 or 8. This section provides examples of specific setup problems and how to solve them with the tools described so far. This is common when developing interactive MIDI applications on the go with a laptop.
Although another good solution is to carry a small keyboard like a Korg nanoKey2 or a QuNexus, they are not the only option. From the list of software earlier in this document, you will need the following:.
Then, take input from the same virtual port in the application requiring MIDI input. I have been in this position many times. And then, off you go with laggy kazoo fun. Not all old software can be configured to do otherwise unfortunately. However, those programs that can usually have an option somewhere for setting the MIDI output device. Set the synthesizer to take input from the same MIDI port. NOTE: the port should have messages flowing through it in one direction only. In other words, one program should talk while the other listens.
Again, bi-directional communication between the programs would require twice as many ports to avoid feedback. First, if you are attempting to minimize the latency of the Windows default synth, it is a lost cause.
Your best bet is to use a different synthesizer and follow the instructions in the previous subsection. I usually recommend starting with a value of 10 and testing playback with at least some chords in it to hear some MIDI polyphony. Some systems can go as low as ms latency with this synth, although this is somewhat rare and requires a pretty beefy machine often a desktop tower and good audio hardware. Many lesser machines, however, will still work with ms.
On laptops in particular, the degree to which you can reel in the latency can be affected by power settings. High performance modes can typically function with lower latencies without audio glitching than battery saving modes are capable of.
If you are using ASIO drivers, you may need to adjust the buffer size to optimize the performance of the device on your system. The larger the buffer, the worse the latency will be, but the less likely you will be to have audio quality problems clicks, audio dropouts, etc.
High-end audio devices meant for serious music development usually can have the buffer size set quite small. How powerful a PC the audio device is on also impacts this process. I own a brand new PC Win 8. Ans less and less of hairs!!! Idem with asio4all. Buy an other! To get the same problems? Those people are bad programmers I was researcher in computers, the URL sows you a little part of my job, fully working in the end of , recently retired and not goog commercials too!
So, I permit to call for some help everywhere I can, hoping someone will find the right and probably esy to do manip. Thanks for your help. I realize this is a horrendously late response to your post and do apologize for that. Backwards compatibility is a much complained about topic in music, and the options can be pretty limited when you have a really old device.
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