Thanks for the info, Bill!
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 9:53 AM Bill McCann <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As albert wrote, if you have an external musical keyboard that has good
sounds of its own, you will definitely like using that keyboard much better
for entering notes with Lime rather than trying to trigger the internal
soft synth called the Microsoft Wavetable (wave table, that is).
But if you do not have that kind of keyboard but only what is called a
MIDI controller keyboard that has no sounds of its own, you may want to
experiment with a sound font player called OmniMIDI. We do not officially
support it but I have used it myself with Lime and a number of customers
have reported good results. See more about it below followed by a link to
directions for installing it. OmniMIDI is essentially the newest version
of a solution called BassMIDI which some of you may still use. OmniMIDI is
definitely a better choice for Windows 10.
If you need help to install it, we can provide paid support to help you.
But again, we cannot officially support it. The good news is that OmniMIDI
is free. After a Windows update, you may have to reinstall it however.
OK, enough of the fine print. Here is an excerpt from the documentation
we supply and the link to a zipped up collection of useful files including
their installer.
…
*High Quality Instrument Sound in Lime Using the **OmniMIDI Software
Synthesizer & SoundFonts*
***
Updated 2014/4/17 & 2020/4/27
BASSMIDI has been superseded by OmniMIDI; for further information see:
https://officialblackmidi.fandom.com/wiki/OmniMIDI
BASSMIDI has not been updated since 2012 and, moreover, can cause crashes
[1] <#m_-3912594635249163065__ftn1> on later versions of Windows. So use
*OmniMIDI*; it is, after all, recommended by the BASSMIDI authors.
Introduction
The Lime musical notation editor, together with the Lime Aloud JAWS
scripts from Dancing Dots, have been powerful accessible tools for reading
and writing both Braille and print music for many years. However, in order
to best take advantage of these tools, it has been necessary for users to
purchase either a musical keyboard or synthesizer sound module that is
capable of producing instrument sounds for Lime to use when playing back
musical pieces. Without such a device, Lime has only been able to play
musical pieces using the basic MIDI playback capabilities of the Windows
MIDI synthesizer. Not only are the quality of the instrument sounds that
are produced by the Windows MIDI synthesizer incredibly low, but they are
played with high latency. This high latency means that a request by Lime
for the Windows MIDI synthesizer to play a note is responded to after a
lengthy delay. This delay makes it nearly impossible to play parts in to
Lime from a musical keyboard.
Now, through a program that can be freely downloaded and used in
combination with Lime, the above problems can be eliminated. This program,
called OmniMIDI provides Lime with a low-latency General MIDI software
synthesizer. This means that, when using OmniMIDI, and without any
additional equipment, Lime can produce high quality instrument sounds that
will respond quickly to requests to play, making it possible to use Lime
with only a simple MIDI keyboard controller.
Even better, the instrument sounds that are produced by the OmniMIDI
program can be upgraded. The sounds are contained in a type of file called
a SoundFont. SoundFont files contain the information that is required to
play many types of instruments. When used in combination with Lime, you
will use a General MIDI SoundFont. This is a SoundFont that includes the
full set of instrument sounds that are normally found on keyboards and
synthesizer modules that are General MIDI compatible, and is the set of
instruments that Lime expects to be available. While we will direct you to
a SoundFont that we feel will work well with Lime, there are an enormous
amount of SoundFonts available on the Internet that are compatible with
General MIDI that you can also use.
…
Here is the link to the zipped archive for OmniMIDI:
www.dancingdots.com/huge/OmniMIDIForWindows.zip
*Bill*
*From:* goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On
Behalf Of *albertm13@xxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Wednesday, August 4, 2021 11:07 AM
*To:* goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [goodfeel] Re: USB midi keyboard latency
The Microsoft wavetable soft synth that in most Windows computers has
terribly high latency. If you have sounds in your USB keyboard, use them.
Albert
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Young Choi <choiyoung7@xxxxxxxxx>
To: goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [goodfeel] USB midi keyboard latency
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 05:14:34 -0700
When I play midi via USB, there is a delay. Can you advise how I can
improve?
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[1] <#m_-3912594635249163065__ftnref1> BASSMIDI may even crash when
releasing it
