Is Roland FA 08 compatible with MMM

nigelsilver wrote on 5/18/2015, 4:00 AM

Hi! I am currently evaluating the trial version of MMM to decide whether to purchase the full version. I have used it in the past and find it to be one of the most user friendly for my purposes.

To date, I have successfully been able to play MMM files through the Roland FA08 Keyboard and have been able to get the keyboard to send some midi "sounds" back to MMM. The only probllem is that the instruments sound really naff, I assume because the MIDI "numbers" are not aligned (or maybe Roland have not made their MIDI instruments available to non-supported software ?)

Roland say their keyboard is compatible with Logic Pro, Cubase and Sonar. It would be great if I could also report that I have a full interface with MMM working. Any help and advice gratefully received.

Rgds

NIgel

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nigelsilver wrote on 5/18/2015, 5:17 AM

Well I may be answering my own question but it may be useful for others. The Roland driver was doing slightly strange things, but once I unisntalled and reinstalled the driver things started to work. I also downloaded ASIO4all. I am not sure if this was a red herring.

For those interested, the program setting ended up being simple:

Jack_Magix wrote on 5/18/2015, 10:39 AM

Thanks for getting back with this. Unfortunately one cannot guarantee for certain hardware, as long as it`s not tested with the program. However: Most devices should work. Probably it was just a driver issue. As far as I can see you are not using asio, so asio4all shouldn't do anything. ;)

browj2 wrote on 5/18/2015, 12:23 PM

Hi Nigel,

Glad to see that you got it sorted out.

With the driver that you have indicated, you will likely have a latency problem. Asio drivers will reduce this to imperceptible.

If I understand correctly, you want to record midi from your keyboard and then have it or another midi file played back through your keyboard. This means that a keyboard instrument must be set so that your keyboard knows which instrument to use. I did this once and the process is now a little foggy.

Why are you not playing back using the MMM instruments and sending the sound to earphones or a sound system through the computer's audio card or through a USB interface and then to a sound system?

Most of the soundpools are audio files, not midi, so your keyboard would only act as an amp with speakers, which is probably not what you want.