RE: Alive and breathing, but barely ;-)
- From: "Thomas Anderssen" <thomas.anderssen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: korgypark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:13:19 +0200
Hi James.
It is quite easy. There are instrument definitions for X5 for Cakewalk
available
on the Korgy Park which you can use to get the correct instrument names.
Download and define in Cakewalk that you'll use them.
There is some catches; the X5 has to be set up correctly: Channel 1 is used
as Global channel, the others should correspond to their respective midi
channels. This is explained in the X5 manual. The LOCAL parameter should
be set to OFF on the X5.
The recording part is really easy. You record one instrument on one track at
a time. When you do the next track you will hear the previously recorded
tracks (if you like). Do not care about playing errors - they can be edited
later.
Create a track in CW, configure it to the channel you want to use. Set the X5
to multi mode and same channel.
If you want to record even which instrument you use, and other settings as
well, there is some procedures to do. In CW, enable recording of sysex data,
set a very slow tempo and start recording. Then, on the X5 select your
instrument, set amount of reverb chorus etc. Stop recording. Now you have
recorded so called sysex data for this track. I personally skip this part and
set these parameters on each track in CW by editing. Much faster...
To record the music, choose channel on the X5 and in CW, set the correct
tempo, start recording and play your stuff. When ready, stop recording,
rewind and play it back. You should hear what you played
- you have recorded one track. Repeat on a separate track för every
instrument you want, i.e. bass, piano, drums etc.
I use this all the time, my band (only three musicians) uses the sequencing
system (laptop+ X5DR module) to play strings, percussion some guitar stuff,
and fill ins with other instruments. I use channel 16 panned to one output for
metronome sound to our drummer.
Usually channel 2 is used for bass, and channel 10 for drums. I have seen
somewhere a recommendation for channel assignment in midi music, but
there is no standard as far as I know.
You can use sounds from the G bank and the A bank simultaneously, but
there are some gotchas in the bank switching; in CW bank 0 represents the
A-bank and the bank number for the GM bank in is 7169 This thingy took me
a loooong time to figure out... it is printed in v-e-r-y small print somewhere
in
the manual....
But we can return to this later - now go on and record something!
cheers
Thomas
On 28 Nov 2001 at 15:18, James Hebert wrote:
> Speaking of hooking up a computer to the X5/X5D, I'd really love to ask if
> anyone can step me through the task of recording what I play (as MIDI data)
> to Cakewalk, and then playing multiple instrument lines back under the
> control of Cakewalk. As a means of composing bits and pieces on my own and
> then putting them together.
>
> I've got the X5D talking to the computer via MIDI, but am clueless about
> hooking it into Cakewalk....
>
> Thanks for any starting points or detailed steps you can pass on!
>
> James
>
>
>
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