Hi Starkeeper,
I've been having a few hassles myself with the new laptop & forte..
The processor in the new laptop is nowhere near as fast as my original dell.
I am able to get the latency down to
1.45 ms on the old dell laptop, the new one I can't get below 10ms without distortion in Forte.
I could possibly get it down lower with a professional external soundcard,
but fortunately for me it can load soundfonts directly ( it runs some sort of software that makes it work like an Audigy ).
For me, no real hassle, as the more I play around with the soundfonts , the more I realize how suited they are for what I want.
Wasn't till I started editing the GM banks & replacing instruments, that I started to realize how good they could sound.
I've got at least 8 GM Banks, some commercial, some free, all of them have got certain instruments that are duds.
I've purchased banks of Korgm1, Triton Orchestral, Matrix6,
The idea is to replace the duds with better instruments. I'm building up a library, and I'm deleting the duds along the way.
I've still got a long way to go, but in the end I should be left with 4 or 5 of each type of instrument.
One thing I am discovering is larger is not neccesarily better, & commercial is not neccesarily better than free.
I'm auditioning the fonts with musical phrases from BIAB or OMB.
The software that came with my usb Audigy card, and with my new laptop has a librarian function that allows me to load & replace individual sounds in a bank, this makes the process of auditioning very simple. Don't know if your SB Live has a similar function??
Back to your problem , it could be the settings for your soundcard
goto
options
preferences
audio options
audio driver"Asio"
change "buffer size from "auto" to something higher.
You have to keep going higher till distortion stops.
Unfortunately the Latency gets higher also.
Do you have ASIO4All??
best wishes
Rikki
Originally posted by Starkeeper:
1) Ok. finally had a chance to try it out, and it is working, but I am getting a lot of distortion. Almost sounds to me as if the gain is to high. I notice when I opened another application, the noise dropped a little. I tried lowering the volume on Forte and Live Synth Pro, but no difference. When I tried SGM128 a few weeks ago without OMB and Maple MIDI I was getting the same distortion
This is my setup:
Roland keyboard, Sound Blaster soundcard, computer, OMB, Forte, Live Synth Pro, Maple MIDI.
(You were right Fran, when I opened OMB it saw Maple MIDI cables).
2) How do I tell OMB what channel I am using for my right hand voices?
Starkeeper
[This message has been edited by Starkeeper (edited 06-26-2006).]