[ddots-l] Re: Introductions and Questions

Hello Bobbi,
Basically MIDI keyboards have a MIDI synthesizer internal to them, but you can also get a MIDI synthesizer with no keyboard. Depends on how much you want to spend and whether you want to use a keyboard to input music into Sibelius. Most people do.
Once you install Sibelius you define the default location of the MIDI output and input you prefer. Usually you set it to the best-sounding output synthesizer and the most useful MIDI input device -- again usually a MIDI keyboard.
You can switch to use the built-in sound card of the computer as your MIDI output, but usually you don't ever bother with it again due to the lower quality of the sound it produces. 

Dave
BTW it's hard to find your response when it's pasted all the way at the end of the message thread. - DC 

You have me curious now.  I always thought that midi keyboards and midi
synthesizers were the same thing.  And if I were to get either, could I use
Sib to create audio files of my works and have my computer play it as if the
device were connected?  Or would the files end up just using the sound card
once the device was disconnected?  Thanks again for your time.
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From: "Dave Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Introductions and Questions
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:57:39 -0700

Hello Bobbi,
The sounds you are hearing are the result of your MIDI device or sound card. If you want realistic sounds, you need to invest in some better hardware, such as a MIDI keyboard or an external MIDI synthesizer, and appropriate amplifiers/speakers. 

Dave



----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobbi Blook" <bobbiinabox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:06 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Introductions and Questions



Hello all,
Recently I was informed that Sibelius was a product not just for Macs, and so I thought, oh boy I can compose and have things written down on paper! Well, everything seemed great, so I was able to obtain Sibelius itself. I just listened to one of the scores that came with it, and I enjoyed the music, but the instruments used to actually play the score back were just, just horrid! So, the only thing from stopping me from actually buying Sibelius Speaking isn't just the fact that it is nearly 300 dollars. I want to be able to not only compose and have my ideas at hand for the sighted, I want my compositions to be in an audio format that I can enjoy as well. However, the synthetic sounds I heard for the demo scores was not what I would call enjoyable. I want to find something that will produce realistic orchestral sounds, and I want to be able to put those realistic sounds into mp3, or even just a midi file, or something that I can have and listen to with a grin on my face, and not just those terribly unrealistic carnival-type instruments. Any suggestions are welcome, and I hope what I have proposed makes sense. 

Most Sincerely,

Bobbi

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You have me curious now. I always thought that midi keyboards and midi synthesizers were the same thing. And if I were to get either, could I use Sib to create audio files of my works and have my computer play it as if the device were connected? Or would the files end up just using the sound card once the device was disconnected? Thanks again for your time. 

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