Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Raymond Horton
Sorry! I'll try it some, see how it goes and report back. RBH On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Phil Buglass wrote: > I was *trying* to play in real time... > > At 04:31 PM 3/27/2013, you wrote: >>It sounded like Phil was likely not playing in in real time. I have >>had a USB Akai LPK25 for a

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Phil Buglass
I was *trying* to play in real time... At 04:31 PM 3/27/2013, you wrote: >It sounded like Phil was likely not playing in in real time. I have >had a USB Akai LPK25 for a couple of weeks, and the setup is >instantaneous. I also have used an old Casio, with a midi-to-usb >adapter, and that often w

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Raymond Horton
ginal Message- >> From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf > Of >> Raymond Horton >> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:32 PM >> To: finale@shsu.edu >> Subject: Re: [Finale] MIDI woes >> >> It sounded like Phil was likely not

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Phil Buglass
I really don't know if it *is* the software at fault. Everyone seems to think that we all know how to set this stuff up. The controller I had before came with no instructions at all. The Finale manual seems to think the same. It goes on about making sure that the midi in and midi out con

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Yates
; From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of > Raymond Horton > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:32 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] MIDI woes > > It sounded like Phil was likely not playing in in real time. I have had a USB Akai >

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Raymond Horton
It sounded like Phil was likely not playing in in real time. I have had a USB Akai LPK25 for a couple of weeks, and the setup is instantaneous. I also have used an old Casio, with a midi-to-usb adapter, and that often would take jumping through hoops to get the computer or Finale to recognize. A

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Yates
I have also found the latency in USB controllers to be too difficult to get used to. I tried two controllers over the years on a couple different machines and operating systems. For me it does not take much latency to be really annoying and throw off efficiency of note entry. (I have never played t

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Chuck Israels
I don't believe that latency is a built in problem with either Finale's MIDI communication pipeline or with most conventional MIDI controller keyboards, so I am inclined to think there is something amiss in the way the software is set up (though I don't pretend to know what that might be). It's

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Phil Buglass
I *think* that was what I tried before. The latency made it unusable. Maybe I didn't have it set up right, but there were no instructions with it - and I didn't have access to this fount of knowledge! I had a scan through amazon this morning, and have saved 4 or 5 different ones in my wish

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Raymond Horton
You sound like a perfect candidate for the Akai LPK25. $43 and change at Musicians Friend. If you have a Guitar Center in town they should match that price if you show them the site:

[Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Phil Buglass
Hi, I have one of those cheapo roll-up keyboards. I've had it for quite a while, but never tried it out. It's a bit too long, and droops off my desk, for one thing. I have been thinking of getting a small keyboard for inputting to Finale. I don't play piano, but I can play one line at a