Adri R

6 minutes ago, Promidi said:

We still need to know what synth (or sound module) you're using.

The inability of the sustain to operate higher notes would be an issue with the synth.

Not entirely sure what you mean,  but the midi controller is directly hooked with my PC via USB. I use Cakewalk and it's working with driver Asio4all

Is this the info u were seeking? I suspect my preferences setup may need some adjustment just have no idea where...thanks mate

9 hours ago, Promidi said:

Which synth?  Which MIDI controller?

Hi! Thanks for your question. I've got the Studiologic SL990 midi controller  and the pedal is the M-Audio SP-2.

Just got myself a sustain pedal and is now plugged into my midi controller. I get some sustain effect with this pedal, however, mostly for the lower octaves, the high octaves do not seem to be affected by the pressing of the pedal. Any thoughts on this?

thanks for the input Erik, very helpful! assured me that I 've been on the right path.

it's funny how I tried to fix the soundcard, find the perfect latency/sampling rate, bit depth, etc setting whatnot and none of those helped. even installed asio driver. still nothing. So it was not a Windows vs soundcard, cakewalk vs soundcard or cakewalk setting, TTS/Omni. it turned out that the issue  must have had to do with the alignment of the midi controller and Cakewalk somehow.),  What I did was keep swithcing between the programs on the Studiologic and at the same time observing how each setting changed the 'piano set' in Cakewalk instrument (TTS ). I also brought back down the modulator to the absolute minimum.

2 hours ago, StudioNSFW said:

Yup, there it is. I'd expect it to me more consistent but if the keyboard can only produce 12 voices at a time..including any notes that should be sustaining - eventually overtones and etc will just disappear.

I don't think you are doomed...but might look for a software synth and learn to drive that from your keyboard instead of using the built in synth (use your keyboard as a controller) . Or, alternately, use this as the reason to upgrade to that new workstation/synth you've been lusting after.

 

 

thanks  - well this was supposed to be a temporary measure to dip my toes ...Well, you seem to be a mindreader, how did you know I had my eyes on something Never mind, I might use your insight as an excuse to make things happen if that's okay Thanks again!

1 hour ago, StudioNSFW said:

What level of Polyphony does your keyboard have?  Some older stuff is limited. My ancient Bass synth has ONE voice, so a second note will cancel the first.  Max polyphony I have seen is 128 voices, which you'd think would be  plenty if just using one instrument, but can be an issue once drums, strings etc all start being asked to play too.

Hey StudioNSFW,

Thanks for asking! Well, I only use Cakewalk to practice the piano (out of necessity) and the midi keyboard I got is in fact an older one i.e. Studiologic SL-990XP.  Due to the fact it's no longer in production, I've not been able to pin down the specs :( and the manual is very lacking to say the least. I've not noticed the poliphony to go up massively (but am not playing a lot of notes at the same time tho), maybe the max number I saw for poliphony was around 12? It's just bugging me that even when I play the same piece, some occassions it seems to work fine, other times it gives up... Well, do you think I'm doomed coz it's an old construct? :(

Hi Guys,

Can someone help me understand, not sure why it keeps happening. Story goes: I open a new track, start playing the piano (I usually pick Piano 1 st.) then after a while the notes all go whiny like a sick cat. Sometimes this anomaly happens after a few minutes, other times much later.  Not sure what triggers this behaviour as the only thing I do is just playing notes on the keyboard? When I close the track and create a new one, it goes back to normal. Anyhow, it is really annoying every time that I have to restart with a new track, could someone please help me how to fix this?

Much appreciated.