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Quote from: Wendellfiddler on December 13, 2019, 07:54:22 AMYes, Slim, thank you - what you say makes a lot of sense - at least the part I understand - it confirms that what I'm experiencing is really there and not my imagination. I appreciate your explanation. I'm not likely to go to much extreme in terms of synths but it helps to understand that there is a latency difference between sounds and software - not something I would have expected but really there. When I use Reason software on a windows notebook the latency is more extreme - same concept I suppose. It has a ton of adjustments but I haven't put the time in to understanding them. None of the software I'm using costs much - heavy brass might have been $10? I like it's sounds better for the harmonica than the garageband sounds that are built in or free for the ipad and the newer iphones. However Garageband has easy adjustments for attack that are labeled as such. I will have to work more with the adjustments there are in Heavy brass to see if I can change the attack some. dtKeep in mind that the audio interface on your Windows box is likely the biggest culprit (as opposed to Reason). I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're just using the built-in audio interface on that box, which will tend to not only have high latency but be a bit noisy as well. Using a pro-level (doesn't have to be crazy expensive) USB audio interface (check the lower range from Tascam or MOTU) can make a huge difference, depending on how bad the built in audio is on your particular computer. If I'm wrong, and you already have a low-latency audio interface, please disregard :-).If you're already using a USB audio interface, then check it's settings, sometimes you can lower the latency (at the risk of experiencing dropouts, all depends on things like CPU capability and workload, etc... When you're making music in real time, the computer doesn't have the luxury to buffer up the sound it's generating in advance -- it doesn't know what note or notes you're going to hit next. Try to imagine the computing power required to produce a complex synthesized tone in software in less than 1 millisecond -- it's amazing this stuff works at all :-). Way back in the 90's I was on a team that created one of the first pro-level Windows-based software synths -- that's the only reason I know something about this stuff. It was so much harder to achieve low latency then, before CPU's became so powerful. - Slim
Yes, Slim, thank you - what you say makes a lot of sense - at least the part I understand - it confirms that what I'm experiencing is really there and not my imagination. I appreciate your explanation. I'm not likely to go to much extreme in terms of synths but it helps to understand that there is a latency difference between sounds and software - not something I would have expected but really there. When I use Reason software on a windows notebook the latency is more extreme - same concept I suppose. It has a ton of adjustments but I haven't put the time in to understanding them. None of the software I'm using costs much - heavy brass might have been $10? I like it's sounds better for the harmonica than the garageband sounds that are built in or free for the ipad and the newer iphones. However Garageband has easy adjustments for attack that are labeled as such. I will have to work more with the adjustments there are in Heavy brass to see if I can change the attack some. dt
...It's way easier to use on the ipad. I wasn't surprised that it worked better on the ipad since every audio engineer I know uses mac stuff rather than windows.dt
Thanks, Slim. Very helpful information. I knew nothing about audio interfaces. Hopefully it won't result in a shopping trip. haha. Could you use one with an iPad? One of the limitations of the iPad is lack of connecting ports. Maybe someday if I ever got a real computer? dt
Quote from: Wendellfiddler on December 13, 2019, 10:12:24 PMThanks, Slim. Very helpful information. I knew nothing about audio interfaces. Hopefully it won't result in a shopping trip. haha. Could you use one with an iPad? One of the limitations of the iPad is lack of connecting ports. Maybe someday if I ever got a real computer? dtYes, Tascam makes one (and I think others do as well) that will work with an iPad, iPhone, or a computer via USB. But not sure how you would then plug in the DM48, maybe there's a USB hub for iPad, I haven't had to deal with that (yet, and don't own a DM48, yet). I've used the Tascam one with my iPhone, but only for recording, so I haven't had reason to check the latency. Maybe someone else here has...- Slim
All you need is the usb to lightning adapter, no interface is needed. The DM is powered easily by the iPad itself. Korg makes an app called the iM1 that can be upgraded to work specifically with breath controllers, via Matt Traums site, but any app that can interpret MIDI will work fine with it. There’s a touch more latency than an external module, but it’s minimal.
Slim, you should never shut up. You have too much good info and talent in that brain. If you come down to LA you can try out my various rigs for the DM, it’ll be fun, and we can scrutinize the nuts and bolts of it all. Cheeers!
Nice job! (and the "leghorn" is considerably cheaper the the Renny, eh?)
O.K. I did not know it could work with a cell phone. Still, it lacks the total convenience of a chromatic harmonica. More importantly, as they so honestly say on the DM48 site: "... the DM48 cannot replace or convincingly emulate an acoustic harmonica" (that does not mean it can't make beautiful music.) I would reserve the term "chromatic harmonica" for the acoustic chromatic harmonica, but have no problem with their identifying the DM48 as a Digital or MIdi chromatic harmonica with the disclosures they have made and as the DM48 does share many characteristics with the chromatic harmonica. I will be happy with whatever final decision Age makes, as to its inclusion on this site.
Quote from: frankyb on November 14, 2019, 07:09:30 PMO.K. I did not know it could work with a cell phone. Still, it lacks the total convenience of a chromatic harmonica. More importantly, as they so honestly say on the DM48 site: "... the DM48 cannot replace or convincingly emulate an acoustic harmonica" (that does not mean it can't make beautiful music.) I would reserve the term "chromatic harmonica" for the acoustic chromatic harmonica, but have no problem with their identifying the DM48 as a Digital or MIdi chromatic harmonica with the disclosures they have made and as the DM48 does share many characteristics with the chromatic harmonica. I will be happy with whatever final decision Age makes, as to its inclusion on this site. Thanks Brendan.I now understand that the DM48 will work with a cellphone. If you are playing for others I assume you would also need a speaker and ? amplifier?
Yeah, mine is an Android. Obamaphones don't come in iPhone format.
No humor intended. If you apply for a free "government" phone, they don't offer iPhones; just Androids. Which is otherwise fine with me, cuz I seldom use the silly thing anyway.
