Estimado Craig, 1) No help here
2) That should work and itīs the way I work with one Roland JV1010 and other assorted modules I have. I have a Fastlane USB 2 in-2 out. For the mixing you can buy a cheap Behringer mixer. 3) There are many Roland modules that support more than 16 channels. Have a look at www.edirol.com. The (relatively) new modules by Emu, like the Virtuoso or the Proteus 2500, have more than 16 channels too. A friend of mine who composes a lot for orchestra uses one the Roland modules and gets all the channels and polyphony he needs. Hope it helps. Javier Ruiz. > I'd be interested in hearing the range of options in use for using more > than 16 MIDI channels. Technically it is possible, but it seems that 16 is > easy and common while > 16 is quite unusual and sometimes a bit > tedious. As much as the technology has progressed on so many fronts, it is > surprising to me that 16 still seems to effectively be a limit. > > What I'd like to do is this: In doing symphonic orchestrations, I'd like > to be able to generate realistic playbacks (and the Human Playback feature > looks great for this). Today I squeeze these into 16 channels by doing > Vln1, Vln2, Vla, Cel on one channel for example. To do it right, I'd need > about 25 channels for most orchestrations. I'd like the solution to be > such that I can use the same setup for normal note entry (including > hyperscribe) and the full playback. > > Presently I use an E-MU sound engine that supports 16 channels. > > Solution 1: Multiple software synthesizers. I haven't seen a software > synth that does more than 16 channels. However, if you have several > different software synths on your machine, you can assign one of them to > 1-16, another to 17-32, and so on. It does seem to work, but the latency > is too slow to use for note entry and impossible for Hyperscribe. Also I > don't know if two different synths will synchronize their output very well. > > Q: is there any software synth out there that has very low latency and is > designed for more than 16 channels? > > Solution 2: Multiple hardware sound engines. This costs some money, but > should work. I have a little Roland box that attaches to the PC with USB > and gives me 4 MIDI in and 4 MIDI out. I don't use it presently, but I > believe this will work -- and give me very low latency. So if I don't hear > any better ideas, I'm going to pick up a cheap used 16-channel sound engine > so that I'll have 32 channels. But that means I'll also need to upgrade my > mixer setup. Definitely a viable solution. > > Solution 3: Hardware synths that support more than 16 channels. I remember > seeing specs for a synth that supported 64 (or maybe even 128) MIDI > channels. I can't seem to find that product now. Can anybody make > recommendations here? > > Thanks, > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
