Klarinet Archive - Posting 000273.txt from 2005/04

From: Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner <520045578938-0001@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] "MIDI" must have several meanings?
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 02:18:48 -0400

MIDI

Musical Instruments digital Interface

Regards Georg

Am 12.04.2005 0:56 Uhr schrieb "Ormondtoby Montoya" unter
<ormo2ndtoby@-----.net>:

> OK (and thank you). Now I understand that the digital-to-analog
> converter is the module within my sound card that I should care about.
>
> Therefore my original comment is more accurately stated this way:
>
> If I set Sibelius to use "Microsoft Synth WaveTable" and "X-MIDI" (which
> deliver commands to my sound card's converter), then I receive the basic
> instrumental voices that I expect from the 'average' computer program.
>
> But if I set Sibelius's options to ignore the generic 'MIDI' path and to
> use the "Kontact sound engine" instead, then Sibelius sends commands to
> my converter that produce entirely different voices (which happen to be
> almost identical to acoustic instruments played in my own living room).
>
> Both paths use the same physical converter, yet they sound tremendously
> different. Therefore I assume (perhaps incorrectly?) that Sibelius
> could also use my sound card's converter to make different waveforms for
> clarinets in A and C if it was programmed to do so, but it isn't.
>
> And therefore buying a 'better' sound card won't change anything major
> because "Kontact" isn't programmed to make different sounds for the two
> instruments in the first place.
>
> Do I understand correctly now?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
>
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