On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:24, Brian Redfern wrote: > Sounds like your keyboard is dying, or has something essentially broken, > you might want to look around your local area for someone to fix it, or > think about getting a midi controller that's new, you can get just a > keyboard controller for under $100, probably less than it would cost to > get yours fixed. I used to have an ensoniq mirage that started to slowly > die and stuff went weird like that, until eventually it just died > altogether. Wow.. doesn't give Ensoniq (now aka EMU & Creative) a good wrap.. The closest I have had to any hardware gear dieing is an output port going a bit dodgy on a Yamaha DX-27 (fixed with a bit of solder) and a button dieing on an RX-5 drum machine.. Oh yeah and losing one of the rubber bits from the hammer of a Rhodes piano Never lost a whole machine.. > > > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Ryan Underwood wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a MIDI card (Yamaha DB50XG) that I use as a performer for my old > > Ensoniq controller. It works fine. However, it seems that the Ensoniq > > keyboard sends the velocity information at only half what it should be > > -- if I pound on the keyboard, the volume is increased from normal > > playing, but still rather quiet. If I play a midi file through tse3play > > or something similar, the volume is full. > > > > To get around this problem, I have two sysex files; I cat > > volume_high.syx > /dev/midi when I want to use the keyboard, and cat > > volume_low.syx > /dev/midi when I want to play midi files. The sysex's > > each set the midi master volume to a level which is comfortable to use > > with either. > > > > However, this feels like a kludge. In addition, sometimes annoying > > things happen like after I've been playing the keyboard at its > > comfortable volume, I visit a web page with a MIDI on it, and it plays > > at 250% volume and blasts my ear out. Or I play a game like DOOM which > > has hardware MIDI support and have to lunge for the volume on my mixer > > to keep from disturbing the neighbours. :) > > > > The keyboard is a Ensoniq SDP-1 from 1986 or so. I tried the volume > > setting on the keyboard in the hopes that it would modify the volume of > > the notes sent to the midi card, but it seems to have no effect. (Is it > > broken possibly?) > > > > I was thinking about hacking the mpu401 driver so that when midi data is > > received externally, it rewrites the velocity somehow before it reaches > > the midi device. Or if that isnt possible, when a file is played to > > /dev/midi, after the file sets master volume, reset it to a lower value. > > > > Thoughts? Suggestions? This has been annoying me for a while now. :) > > > > Thanks, > > -- > > Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253 > > -- Allan Klinbail <allank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
