Hello Bill,
Do you have a midi keyboard with sound that you recommend? If so, I would
be willing to buy it rather than using the keyboard I have.
My best,
Harvey
From: goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Bill McCann
Sent: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 12:53 PM
To: goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; limelighter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [goodfeel] Re: USB midi keyboard latency
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BASSMIDI has been superseded by OmniMIDI; for further information see: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]
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
<http://www.dancingdots.com/huge/OmniMIDIForWindows.zip>
Bill
From: goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:goodfeel-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On
Behalf Of albertm13@xxxxxxxx <mailto:albertm13@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 11:07 AM
To: goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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
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From: Young Choi <choiyoung7@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:choiyoung7@xxxxxxxxx> >
To: goodfeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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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