Welcome to the world of music making on computer :-) If you are using the keyboard to trigger sounds from synthesizers that are inside FruityLoops (TS404 etc.) then what you are describing is called latency. It is the amount of time that the computer takes to generate the sound, and put it out through your sound card. What sound card you use makes a huge difference. Also, if your sound card has ASIO drivers, make sure you have those chosen under options > audio settings in FL. However, if you are having this problem just with the sounds produced by your keyboard itself, then the problem is that the midi signal is going to the computer, then the computer is sending it back to your keyboard to trigger it. This is unnecessary, and you can usually set your keyboard to play in "local" mode or something to that effect. You'll have to look through the manual for the keyboard to figure it out. Give yourself some time to learn your way around this stuff. I takes a while. Doug Gough > -----Original Message----- > From: fruityloops-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fruityloops-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of > joephishbiz@xxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 1:10 PM > To: fruityloops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [fruityloops] midi keyboard problem... > > > Hi... my name is Joe, and I am new the fruityloops and sequencing > world. I'm > a classical pianist and drummer who is looking to make some techno > recordings. However, I'm encountering some problems along the > way. I have a Yahama > keyboard hooked up (via MIDI) to my computer, and everything > works great EXCEPT > that when I press a key down on the keyboard there is a split > second delay, > which makes things TERRIBLE when recording live. Any help would > be greatly > appreciated. Thank you. > >