Hello,
I'm quiet new with creamware and use a pulsar 1, Logic 5.0 on Windows XP AMD 2,6 GHz.
My problem:
I want to use some General Midi(GM) sounds of my old soundcard's SoundMAX Wavetable Synth or Microsoft GS Wavetable SW, but unfortunately I can hear no sound.
All Creamware instruments like Bluesynth work fine, I can play them via my midi-keyboard and hear the sound. Midi-data also appears in logic's transport bar (input&ouput). I also can play all audioinstruments like ES1 and hear them. So, midi seems to work.
But then I tried to use i.e. the Grand Piano and chose SoundMAX Wavetable Synth (below the piano icon). If I play the keyboard, midi-data arrives in logic; also at Grand Piano in the Track Mixer. But I can hear no sound!!
Can you tell me how to get the general-midi-sound into the pulsar? Do I have to do some additional routings in logic or SFP?
I did a try and created a soundcard source which I connected to the mixer, but with no result.
Thank you & greetings
Matt
P.S.: I already used the 'search'-button, but unfortunately the threads I found did not solve my problem...
General Midi, logic and SFP 3.1
The soundcard source is not the best option, is mostly a theoretical thing, as the latencies involved make it almost useless...
the best thing to do is to get a physical output from the other card and connect it to a physical input of pulsar...you will add no latency this way....if you really need that synth.
the best thing to do is to get a physical output from the other card and connect it to a physical input of pulsar...you will add no latency this way....if you really need that synth.
it's actually pretty simple - just give up the idea of using both the SoundMax and the M§soft GS as their sound quality isn't adequate to your system 
I assume you have the STS sampler, so if you need GM just search some soundfont libs on the net (lots with pretty good quality) and import them into the STS sampler.
The soundcard source in your project introduces heavy latency by nature, it's generally not appreciated.
The most simple approach would be to connect a quality GM or XG external module and use the analog ins - some of that stuff is extremely cheap 2nd hand - who needs GM today ?
No offence intedended - just to illustrate it's market position.
Not too long ago I bought a huge GM lib and a good piano with a sellout of a Gigastation soundcard, complete pack for 60 Euro.
Kept the samples and the Gigasoft and gave the card as a present to my bro
cheers, Tom
I assume you have the STS sampler, so if you need GM just search some soundfont libs on the net (lots with pretty good quality) and import them into the STS sampler.
The soundcard source in your project introduces heavy latency by nature, it's generally not appreciated.
The most simple approach would be to connect a quality GM or XG external module and use the analog ins - some of that stuff is extremely cheap 2nd hand - who needs GM today ?
No offence intedended - just to illustrate it's market position.
Not too long ago I bought a huge GM lib and a good piano with a sellout of a Gigastation soundcard, complete pack for 60 Euro.
Kept the samples and the Gigasoft and gave the card as a present to my bro
cheers, Tom
There are also GM softsynths on the market that you could use in Logic.
Edirol HyperCanvas is GM2 compatible:
http://www.edirol.com/products/info/hyperCanvas.html
Edirol HyperCanvas is GM2 compatible:
http://www.edirol.com/products/info/hyperCanvas.html
Thanks a lot for your answers. I think I'll try to get a soundfont library and use the STS for the first. It's the cheapest way
But what I found out:
I'm not able to connect pulsar with soundMAX anway!! I tried the following:
I started winamp to listen to some mp3s. As winamp output I chose SoundMAX. In SFPs routing window then I created a soundcard source and connetcted it to pulsar analog dest. No sound at all!
Then I chose Pulsar as winamp output and create in SFP routing window a soundcard dest module which I connected with mixers main out. No sound at all again!
Can anybody tell me why I can't get these two soundcards working together? (BTW the SoundMAX is an onboard soundcard)
Thanks a lot & CU
Matt
But what I found out:
I'm not able to connect pulsar with soundMAX anway!! I tried the following:
I started winamp to listen to some mp3s. As winamp output I chose SoundMAX. In SFPs routing window then I created a soundcard source and connetcted it to pulsar analog dest. No sound at all!
Then I chose Pulsar as winamp output and create in SFP routing window a soundcard dest module which I connected with mixers main out. No sound at all again!
Can anybody tell me why I can't get these two soundcards working together? (BTW the SoundMAX is an onboard soundcard)
Thanks a lot & CU
Matt
hi Matt,On 2004-07-18 09:05, mathpet wrote:
... and create in SFP routing window a soundcard dest module which I connected with mixers main out. No sound at all again!
...
that setup would be used to transfer Pulsar's mixer out to the SoundMax driver to play it back by the SoundMax hardware.
I'm shure you don't intend that - I have that same piece of onboard crap and it's really horrible
You'd need a soundcard source module connected to one of your mixer's input channels (assuming your monitors are on the mixer's master out).
Anyway, I tried right that and got no sound, though Winamp showed some activity.
It's really not worth bothering (of course it's understandable that you just want to know the cause) - but you won't miss anything.
Feel free to experiment and click through the driver's dialogs, but Windows is a strange thing anyway...
cheers, Tom
ps: I assume it's because the Soundmax driver seems WDM/DirectX based and not like the old SoundBlasters - I usually ignore that stuff, so can't explain it better
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