MIDI synth on Audigy

Does anyone know if the Audigy 2 NX is capable of hardware MIDI synth? Right now MIDIs sound pretty bad on my laptop, and I compose music so it would be helpful to have MIDI quality on my laptop be somewhat comparable to the quality on my desktop PC (which has an Audigy ).
Thanks...

I don't understand. First of all, the MIDI inputs work with the XP drivers (but the sound card doesn't), so I know the hardware is able to be seen by the software. I understand that MS removed MIDI support from the OS, but shouldn't the drivers recognize the ports on the card and use them? I also believe that the MIDI ports worked under Vista when I first did the upgrade. They only stopped working when I upgraded the mother board and CPU in the PC. So what gives?Larry

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mriev wrote:
Maxing everything was the first thing I tried, and no go. Still so little reverb it was hard to tell if it was working, and no detectable chorus. I even went back with Vienna 2.4 and checked my soundfont again, and all was as it should be.
Putting together a brand new sound card is a major undertaking and it's understandable if something gets missed here and there, especially as most of the designers and testers probably aren't serious musicians. It's easy to see how this one could slip past, especially if they were using Soundfonts that have reverb and chorus programmed in to some of the instruments. Everything works fine until you start varying cc9 and cc92 and nothing happens. I haven't checked because I removed the X-Fi and put my Audigy back in, but it's a good bet that none of the midi effect controllers work properly. This is a relati'vely minor issue for most users, but for serious musicians who use midi, it's major. However, I'm sure CL will fix the problem as soon as possible. I just hope it doesn't take too long because the X-Fi is a really, really good sounding card, except for this one problem.
Gi've the X-Fi another try. I had these same issues at first but now cc9 and cc92 work in Sonar4.
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. choose creation mode
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step 4 should work best for stereo setup
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Hi~ guys~
I'm just wondering
if we can find any GM MIDI Synths other than QuickTime synth to use in Logic Pro 8.
(not the external hardware synths)
if there are some,,, could you let me know what they are??
thanks~

You can use SoundFont libraries (they are free).
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/Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks
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My main audio interface i use is the apogee duet, but since that doesn't have midi in/out ports, i am connecting the nord to midi in and out to my native instruments audio8 interface.
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Hi Tom,
elastic wrote:
Hi,
I have connected the nord going midi in (from nord) to midi out (on the audio8) and midi out (on the audio8) to midi in (on the nord). The nord is also connected to my mac pro with usb and is also powered by mains.
That is twice Nord Midi in and twice Audio8 out. Are you sure?
From Nord to Audio8 would mean Nord MIDI Out to Audio8 Midi in, in my book...
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I have gone into logics environemnt and tried all sorts of things to get it working but just cannot get the nord working.
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Originally Posted by karloch
Hi everyone!
I recently purchased a Sound Blaster Audigy RX and I'm very pleased with the improved audio quality over the Intel HDA included in my motherboard.
However, I have a problem when playing MID files using hardware midi synthesis: I select the correct midi device "SB Audigy 5/Rx Synth A" and play the midi file using Windows Media Player. I can hear the tune, but with LOT of noise. As this problem is only happening with MIDI, I wonder if it is a driver issue or a faulty card. I have tried with official Creative drivers and with the Daniel_K's SB 5.3 support pack with same result.
I'm attaching an MP3 file of the MIDI output you can get a clear picture of what's happening.
ffaboss_short.zip
Should I replace my card or is it a software problem?
Hi karloch,
Pardon me for saying that I did not detect the noise you mentioned in your attached MP3 file. I can't be sure it's the noise or is it part of the music; especially towards the end of the playback. I'm using VLC player btw.
Perhaps, you may like to test it with another media player.
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Originally Posted by karloch
Hi everyone!
I recently purchased a Sound Blaster Audigy RX and I'm very pleased with the improved audio quality over the Intel HDA included in my motherboard.
However, I have a problem when playing MID files using hardware midi synthesis: I select the correct midi device "SB Audigy 5/Rx Synth A" and play the midi file using Windows Media Player. I can hear the tune, but with LOT of noise. As this problem is only happening with MIDI, I wonder if it is a driver issue or a faulty card. I have tried with official Creative drivers and with the Daniel_K's SB 5.3 support pack with same result.
I'm attaching an MP3 file of the MIDI output you can get a clear picture of what's happening.
ffaboss_short.zip
Should I replace my card or is it a software problem?
Hi karloch,
Pardon me for saying that I did not detect the noise you mentioned in your attached MP3 file. I can't be sure it's the noise or is it part of the music; especially towards the end of the playback. I'm using VLC player btw.
Perhaps, you may like to test it with another media player.
Cheers,
JL-CL

Audigy PCMIA synth(s)

I thought that this forum would be the best place to ask this: Shouldn´t there be two soundfont synths in Audigy 2 PCMIA soundcard? I had them both when I first installed the software and drivers, but when I installed the driver update, the other synth was gone! I couldn´t see it in "devices" or in the midisequencer. Strange, isn´t it? I tried to reinstall the soundcard with the old drivers from the cd, and I got the both synths visible in "devices" and in the sequencer, but the other of them didn´t really work (the sound was coming only from the laptop speakers). And after the driver update, the result was the same: Only one synth.
Any ideas? It would be nice to have two working synths if they are somewhere there!

samulirask wrote:
I thought that this forum would be the best place to ask this: Shouldn´t there be two soundfont synths in Audigy 2 PCMIA soundcard? I had them both when I first installed the software and drivers, but when I installed the driver update, the other synth was gone! I couldn´t see it in "devices" or in the midisequencer. Strange, isn´t it? I tried to reinstall the soundcard with the old drivers from the cd, and I got the both synths visible in "devices" and in the sequencer, but the other of them didn´t really work (the sound was coming only from the laptop speakers). And after the driver update, the result was the same: Only one synth.
Any ideas? It would be nice to have two working synths if they are somewhere there!
Which driver update you did, from Creative Support or that one from station-drivers?
If the latter one, then you may need to reinstall original drivers (use driver cleaner too).
If not the latter ones, then why not try those drivers.
.jtp
Message Edited by jutapa on 09-15-2005 08:25 AM

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I decided to hook up my headphone and mic sets to the Audio Control Pod for the first time recently to chat online. I'm not sure if I ever tried this when I bought the Inspire T7700 speaker system, but I cannot seem to get any voice to come through in Windows' Sound Recorder (the headphones work fine). I'm hoping that someone here can help...otherwise, I suppose I'll have to find an alternate solution than using my soundcard system.
Here are some specs:
OS: Windows XP SP2 and all current updates
Soundcard: Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
Speakers: Inspire T7700 with Audio Control Pod (contains the headphone and mic jack)
Here's what I have tried:
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2. Tested headsets and mics out on another one of my computers with a SoundBlaster Li've. They work fine.
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