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Any recommendations for an online video singing course? I can hit notes... sometimes, but my voice isn"t strong and I also can"t 'pick out' harmonies. A live teacher probably won"t work right now.
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They're each doing their parts individually to a click or backing track and then someone is editing the thing together to sync it all and make it look like it was done together. I wish there was a real way, but latency on the internet makes it impossible. I use zoom every day for work, and as great as it is at what it does, there are plenty of times where people lips are off from their voice. And when I can hear my own voice echoed back through someone's speakers, it can be at least a half second.
I see. Makes sense. Too bad. I was hoping to do rehearsals with the band. Thanks! At least I know I'm not missing some cool trick.
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I see these videos that bands are making. They appear to be playing together simultaneously in different locations.
How are they doing that? They"re playing together, harmonies, etc.. no perceivable latency to me. Are they using Zoom? Something else?
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I often get the 1024 only option when plugged in, and this is with the newest iPad Pro, but if I unplug the usb it usually gives me the option to set buffer size after that. I haven't tried that often enough to say if it's a real cure or just a fluke.
Just tried that. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I have the same issue even with nothing plugged in.
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I submitted the issue to ik. Here's something interesting though
Sometimes if I keep opening and swipe closing b3x and midiflow the other buffer options, like 64, are there and work fine. But most of the time they don't show up.
They need to look at how most recent iOSplays into this as well. Are you on the latest operating system?
Yep
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I submitted the issue to ik. Here's something interesting though
Sometimes if I keep opening and swipe closing b3x and midiflow the other buffer options, like 64, are there and work fine. But most of the time they don't show up.
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The new update allows each manual to be on separate channels. Do you still need midiflow?
Yeah for the lower drawbars. There is no way to set them to channel 2 in B-3X. My legend solo sends lower drawbars on channel 2
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On my iPad Standard, when running B3x, using my keyboard as the midi input I can select 64, 128, 256, etc... Buffers
However when I have my keyboard going into midi flow with a virtual midi port into B3X, my only option is 1024. Nothing greater,. nothing less.
Solutions?
Is it because my iPad Standard isn't powerful enough? If so, it's now showing the 2048 option, which is even higher.
Shouldn't it show all options anyway?
Would a more powerful iPad solve this?
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Yes, if you're plugging the keyboard directly into the camera connector kit's USB, then you'd still use the iPad's headphone port for audio.I'm confused. You would still need the headphone jack because the USB would be midi in from keyboard correct?I run a 4 port usb hub off of my camera kit and have a sebrent usb sound adapter plugged into that. They cost about 8 bucks. It may or may not sound better than the onboard soundcard but I have the sebrent left over from my vb3/tablet setup.
What model ipad? Is the standard fast enough to run 2-3 midi USB inputs and output USB audio without latency or are we taking iPad air or pro?
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I'm confused. You would still need the headphone jack because the USB would be midi in from keyboard correct?
I've talked about this a bit over in the Studio Workshop forum.By far the simplest solution is a miniplug to dual XLR or 1/4" TS cable from your iPad's headphone jack to your mixer. The converters in Apple devices actually sound pretty darn good, and I use this method of getting audio out of one of my iPads all the time for live shows on the radio from my studio.
If you want to get a little fancier without spending a ton of money, I recommend that you get an Apple Lightning To USB3 Camera Adapter. Anyone and everyone who wants to be serious about iOS-based music should have one of these; at $39.99 or whatever, it's a stupid cheap solution to a lot of problems.
Basically here's how it works: you plug the Lightning jack into your iPad. The other end has two ports. The Lightning port is a passthrough for power; you run your standard Lightning docking cable from that port to any USB-based 5V power supply, like an iPad charger. (Or your Mac.)
The other port is a USB-A port, and you can plug literally any class-compliant audio or MIDI device in the world into it and it will work. iOS uses the same Core Audio and Core MIDI drivers as macOS, so there's no need for special drivers or anything; it just works. I have done this with everything from a 2-channel audio interface to a 32-channel digital mixer, and have never had a failure.
That little dongle lets you do so much with your iPad or iPhone it's not funny. Right now in my studio, I have one iPad plugged into a Novation AudioHub 2x4 which passes MIDI from a Linnstrument from its USB hub, another one plugged into an Alesis Control Hub for audio output and 5-pin MIDI I/O, and another one plugged into a Yamaha AG06 mixer. Note that some of these devices require their own power and will still need to be plugged in, but even then, the Lightning cable will keep your iPad charged throughout your show so you don't have to keep glancing at the battery indicator.
There ARE dongles that have MIDI In or I/O, audio out or I/O, and charging ports (two examples are the IK Multimedia iRig Pro I/O and the Korg plugKEY); those are fine for music use, but the Lightning to USB3 adaptor does way more, from accessing digital cameras to external storage devices like SSDs and USB thumb drives. I have about five of them around my studio and in my backpack.
Oh, and for those of you who think Apple's prices are a ripoff and you can do just as well with a $10 knockoff adapter... For these adapters to continue to work smoothly as iOS advances, there are occasional firmware upgrades to the tiny chip inside the adapter. Once in a while you'll be told that your adapter is being updated, and five seconds later, it's good to go. Imitation adapters don't have this firmware, or it's burned at the factory for a particular version of iOS, and the odds are good that eventually the adapter will simply stop working and require you to buy another one. And another. And another...
I do use headphone cables with my iOS devices that have headphone jacks, but it's so easy to hook up real interfaces and get more robust cabling and better sound, why not?
I'm confused. You would still need the headphone jack because the USB would be midi in from keyboard correct?
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With midiflow I made 3 "chains" whatever they're called.
1. Input keyboard->modifier(restrict to channel 1)->virtual output
2. Input keyboard->modifiers (restrict to channel 2, filter out notes, incoming controller cc12, outgoing controller cc21, remap to channel 1 (repeat that for all drawbars- 13 to 22, 14 to 23, etc...)->virtual output
3. Input keyboard-> modifiers (restrict channel to all, restrict notes to range C2 to G9. [This stops me from playing the reverse presets on the lower board. I kept hitting them by accident. My lower board has 73 and not 61 keys, so the first octave functions as the reverse presets on a Hammond, which I don"t want and there is no way to turn that off in the app that I could find], filter out controllers)->virtual output
Input keyboard for me is viscount legend midi port.
My virtual output is named "bx"
You"ll want your lower tier keyboard, in my case, a Korg Grandstage outputting on Channel 2. You"ll want the upper manual, in my case the Legend Solo, obviously on channel 1.
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Have you tried just connecting usb (with camera connection) directly to the KL? I know they say you need drivers, but I thought I had heard that some people had done this.
I'm hoping all future keyboards will do what the recent Roland and Yamahas do--include an audio interface that allows you to use one cable (midi and audio) to connect up a device. It is one of the best features of my Modx. The audio from the ipad gets combined with the Modx sounds and there is a separate volume control knob. I have a KL but haven't actually tried to use it as an interface as right when I was thinking of using the ipad, this virus hit...
Haven't tried but I will.
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If you"re talking 3.5mm TRS from iPad into dual 6.35mm TS to mixer (I"m not being a smartass I"m just not familiar with what 1/8' looks like) then yes this definitely works. I"ve been gigging this way for years.
This assumes your iPad has a 3.5mm output socket or adaptor.
Any reasonable quality cable of this nature will get the job done.
Yeah. I think 3.5mm is what I meant. Sorry. Thx!
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So, if I were to use an iPad for live sounds, maybe b3x what recommendations do you have to run it into my key largo?
A simple 1/8 split to two 1/4s? Is there a quality cable would recommend?
Other ideas?
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I bought the synth Giants but it won't download. It shows as a purchase and when I go to restore purchases, it's listed but it says downloading 0% and never downloads the presets
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Midi flow didn't work for me either. It could detect some apps but not others, and didn't detect B3-X. I have the feeling that for folks who understand midi, problems like this are easy to solve. For folks like me who have always approached midi as just a physical plug-to-plug affair, there are new concepts and terminology to grasp. I haven't seriously tried to climb that learning curve yet.
I was able to detect the app with midiflow. You have to change a setting in the b3x app (midi input device), but I still couldn't figure out how to get the app to let the the channel 1 drawbars CC's pass though fine while getting the channel 2 drawbars to be filtered and changed to correspond with what b3 is expecting. Too much workaround
Honestly, why can't b3x just allow for different channels for drawbars as well as notes?
This stuff all pretty much does the same thing whether it's on a PC or tablet. Yeah it's a pain but once set up you shouldn't need to mess with it. I just perused the Midiflow manual for about 10 minutes and I think what you want can be done. I work with similar midi plugin tools in Reaper all the time.
You need the additional Controller Remapping app as well. However if it can't detect the B3-X that's a problem. I'm not sure if I could figure that out without being physically there, and even then. But if you need some help configuring the Midiflow app itself let me know. This I think I can do.
I bought the addons for midiflow, but couldn't get it to work. I definitely got it detected in bx-3. I was able to play and move drawbars, but couldn't find a way to make both sets work.
did you figure it out? please let me know if you have an idea.
Thanks!
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Midi flow didn't work for me either. It could detect some apps but not others, and didn't detect B3-X. I have the feeling that for folks who understand midi, problems like this are easy to solve. For folks like me who have always approached midi as just a physical plug-to-plug affair, there are new concepts and terminology to grasp. I haven't seriously tried to climb that learning curve yet.
I was able to detect the app with midiflow. You have to change a setting in the b3x app (midi input device), but I still couldn't figure out how to get the app to let the the channel 1 drawbars CC's pass though fine while getting the channel 2 drawbars to be filtered and changed to correspond with what b3 is expecting. Too much workaround
Honestly, why can't b3x just allow for different channels for drawbars as well as notes?
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On the PC and Mac (computers) there are a number of different plug-ins and software tools to convert midi messages from one thing to another. You can easily convert midi channels and turn an incoming cc into a different cc. Is there something like this for tablets? Can you even use multiple pieces of software talking to each other on these platforms?
Maybe there"s something out there that does what you need.
Tried midi flow but couldn't get it to work
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"But midi CC's from any keyboard can be very easily mapped."
I don't think this is entirely true. The viscount legend sends the same midi CC for upper drawbars and lower drawbars. It does the upper drawbars on channel 1 and the lower on channel 2.
This software only distinguishes channels for notes not controller functions. If u want to use 2 manuals with a keyboard like the legend, you're out of luck. For this software to with with 2 manuals, the top and bottom drawbars need to have different CCs.
Ex:
Viscount sends (i don't recall the exact CCs)
Upper drawbars: channel 1, CC 13, 14, 15, 16, etc...
Lower drawbars: channel 2 CC 13, 14, 15, 16, etc ..
B-3X expects on same channel:
Upper: cc 13, 14, 15, 16, ... Up to 21
Lower: cc 22, 23, 24, etc
I wrote them. They said sorry contact your manufacturer of the keyboard. I suppose that many they don't plan to support this in the future. I dropped $100 on it. And I suppose it's still a nice upgrade to a single manual board, but I wish I could use it on both channels.
By the way, I'm referring to the IOS version. I haven't tried the PC version.
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I got an email from Korg about an hour ago and just read the info. Seems to me like NORD EDITOR where you can download new sounds and save them.
Interesting. I would think if they had a sound library like Nord they'd be advertising the heck out of it. I had the SV2 for a few days but I returned it in favor of the Grandstage. I didn't mess with the editor at all
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Are they new sounds or just settings adjusted on the sounds that are already in there and called something new?
Or are they completely new downloadable samples like Nord has?
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I forgot that I had amazing slow downer on my phone and it works with Spotify. Still gonna be a hefty challenge for me to get up to speed. It's not necessarily figuring out what notes, but playing them fast and steady enough
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Thanks! Great suggestions.
maybe you could edit the title to "Foreplay/Longtime by Boston" tips?Just seemed funny at the time, so I went with it
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Ha! If you're gonna make a joke.about the thread title, go ahead, but real.advice first. I'm not an expert player and the band wants to do foreplay/longtime.
Any good tips for learning this intro? I don't know how to read music.
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