Adding MIDI Tracks - Problems

mrtrumpet wrote on 2/5/2014, 12:35 PM

These two things have me really stumped and I can't figure out the help to tell me what may be going on:

The situation: I have a Kawaii K4 synthesizer. It's about 15 years old. But it is connected to USB midi and is working (for the most part) with MM Premium 2014 (Win7.) But here's what's driving me crazy. I'm using acoustic piano in 2 MIDI tracks to try and record the bass and treble clef lines of Maple Leaf Rag. The bass line goe in OK but the, when I go to record the Treble Clef lines MM2014 SOMEHOW AUTOMATICALLY TRANSPOSES THE KEYS I'M PLAYING! So, for example, if I'm recording A,C,C,F notes, MM2014 is playing a fifth higher!!

Does anyone know what might be happening and how to fix it? Does it, for example, have anything to do with the grid graphic to the right of the Transpose and Timestretch box?

Thanks.

Dave

PS Sometimes notes are also being automatically added without my playing them too????

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johnebaker wrote on 2/5/2014, 4:28 PM

The answer to the second part

. . . .Sometimes notes are also being automatically added without my playing them too???? . . . .

is likely to be contact bounce in the keyboard.

If it has been well used in the last 15 years then the key contacts and springs are likely to be worn or dirty, the consequence is that when press / release a key the contacts 'bounce' ie they do not make / break cleanly.

This will be more noticeablewhen pressing / releasing a key or keys relatvely slowly.

May be time for a new keyboard.

HTH

John

Former user wrote on 2/5/2014, 6:55 PM

John's answer is probably the best solution....but another thing yu can try is a chemical electrical contact cleaner. Its usually in a spray can and has an extension nozzle for hard to reach areas. I personally have used it a thousand times in my electrical gizmos career and it has literally fixed hundreds of problems for me and my fellow employees

Procyon wrote on 2/5/2014, 6:55 PM

"May be time for a new keyboard."

Or, at least, a good servicing.

mrtrumpet wrote on 2/6/2014, 8:47 AM

Thanks guys. I'll give the contact cleaner a shot first. Gnarly, any recommendations for brand? But John, you are probably right. Good thing MIDI input keyboards are less expensive these days than when I purchase the Kawaii.

And now it turns out there's another problem, maybe related? Although the keyboard plays a note duration as indicated in the sheet music the playback is now cutting it short. For example, what was played as a whole note (4 beats) is now played back as an eighth note (1/8 beat). Interestingly, however, is that the first playback of the MIDI recording was the full value whole note. Subsequent playback is the shortened duration.

Any thoughts on wny this is happening?

Thanks again.

Dave

Former user wrote on 2/6/2014, 6:42 PM

Any electrronics parts store should carry a few different brands, and the price range can vary so, look at the "active" ingredients such as 8 % Tetra blah-blah, 92% inert gasses.....if they all have 8 % Tetra blah-blah, buy the cheapest one....now as for your other issue, I cannot recall anything similaar and will be very iinterrested in other responces should you get any. Maybe you should save athe music before you play it back even the first time, then play it back and see if all is OK, then play it back and see if all is OK. I would find it hard to believe that Magix programs have the ability to change saved software. Obama might have a hand in all this.