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(Message started by: sk on Aug 5^th, 2005, 10:38am)

Title: using text keyboard for playing notes...
Post by sk on Aug 5^th, 2005, 10:38am

can i use my text keyboard(non midi) to play simple notes in programs as reason that doesnt support that?

could you please explain how it is done :-/
thanks

Title: Re: using text keyboard for playing notes...
Post by Jamie OConnell on Aug 5^th, 2005, 4:07pm

There's a few programs that can do this. MIDI-OX is one. You will also need to install MIDI Yoke. Then attach MIDI Yoke 1 as Output of MIDI-OX and MIDI Yoke 1 as Input to Reason.

Title: Re: using text keyboard for playing notes...
Post by rhjohnstone on Aug 8^th, 2005, 6:40pm

As a (very) new user of this software (Hey, a basic turorial/teaching aid for non-musically experienced neophytes would be a fabulous thing!!) could you walk me through the connection steps you just described?
Appreciate you time

Title: Re: using text keyboard for playing notes...
Post by Jamie OConnell on Aug 9^th, 2005, 1:55am

We are trying to put together some tutorials - honest...

Assuming you have both MIDI-OX and MIDI Yoke Installed (If not, check those pages for details), launch MIDI-OX. Choose Options | MIDI Devices.... Under MIDI Outputs, click on MIDI Yoke NT: 1. Press [OK]

Launch Reason. Somewhere in Reason there will be a similar page to choose a MIDI Input. Choose MIDI Yoke NT: 1

Back in MIDI-OX, choose Actions | Keyboard. The little image in the toolbar will start blinking. Now press Keys on the computer keyboard to send MIDI Notes to Reason.

To find out more about Keyboard Key mapping open the MIDI-OX Help file.

Title: Re: using text keyboard for playing notes...
Post by Peter L Jones on Aug 9^th, 2005, 2:22pm

Jamie - if you want to post a list of tutorials you're after, there might be some easy stuff I could get done, if you like. (Unless you were thinking of having deadlines... I don't do deadlines ;-) )

Title: Re: using text keyboard for playing notes...
Post by Jamie OConnell on Aug 9^th, 2005, 5:24pm

Thanks for the offer! I have a few basic things done, but you could add whatever interests you. I hope to get a section started soon, and we can add to it over time. I have a preliminary list at home that I'll try to dig up.

Title: Re: using text keyboard for playing notes...
Post by rhjohnstone on Aug 10^th, 2005, 7:37pm

???
You know what they say.....the older you get the more there is to learn!!!
"Reason??"
I began a search and found some refs.....
Can you explain a little further?
What exactly is the function of this s'ware in this application?
Do I need a "full version?"
Where can I find it? Any issues to d'load and install?
Anything else I need to know?
Many thanks

Title: Re: using text keyboard for playing notes...
Post by Jamie OConnell on Aug 10^th, 2005, 8:10pm

I thought you were asking a question about how to hook MIDI Yoke up to Reason (a program by propellerheads)? If not, just substitute any other MIDI Program for Reason. The point was to describe how to use MIDI Yoke with MIDI-OX to play the Computer Keyboard as if it was a MIDI Keyboard.

Title: Re: using text keyboard for playing notes...
Post by rhjohnstone on Aug 11^th, 2005, 1:59pm

So, with -OX and -Yoke installed, do you need anything else to get an output to the speakers of a conventional PC?

Title: Re: using text keyboard for playing notes...
Post by Peter L Jones on Aug 11^th, 2005, 4:48pm

MIDI isn't audio.

Speakers are driven by an audio feed.

You need something - called a synthesizer - that responds to MIDI messages by producing an audio signal.

Microsoft provides one built into Windows XP.

In MIDI OX, open the MIDI Out for the Microsoft GM/GS Synth and the MIDI In your MIDI device is connected to. That's about it for an external connection - no MIDI Yoke required.

If you're using the text keyboard (just realised that's what this thread is about ::)), then you can skip the "open the MIDI In" bit of the previous - just open the MIDI Out.

If you're creating MIDI messages in a program running on the same PC, normally you'd just open the Microsoft GM/GS Synth directly for MIDI Output. However, you might want to send the MIDI messages to some other program. You'd then use MIDI Yoke as output from the first and input to the second. One likely "some other program" is a synthesizer with better sounds that the Microsoft GM/GS Synth.