Well it looks like I will need to take a university course in midi technology to rid myself of this latency. I think I will look at better software composing packages and read their reviews to see if they also suffer from this "latency by default".
I think it will be much easier with NWC to just continue to manually compose my scores...it certainly will be less time consuming than attempting to understand the technical jargon of the links in the prior response. I just wanted to use the keyboard to enter the notes for my original tunes without needing to be a Mozart.
Thanks. I also tried using a predefined rhythm and was able to get the notes somewhat in time. The problem with this is that there is a delay from key press to sound heard when using the echo feature. This makes it difficult to keep up with the rhythm, and the notes need a lot of manual work to get them spaced correctly.
I am not sure if there is a setting I can make on the midi keyboard, or if this delay is inherent to Windows. I am new at midi recording. I have a lot of tunes that I would like to get scored, but am getting quite frustrated.
No matter how long I hold down a key on the midi keyboard, NWC always writes the note as a quarter note. I was hoping that NWC would actually let me record a song correctly so that the timings will be correct in the written score.
I have read another thread, that basically said I had to set the note duration before I play the note -- not exactly what I had in mind. I would not have bothered to buy a midi keyboard if I was going to have to write the durations myself anyway.
If NWC is not a good composing software from a midi keyboard, then does anyone have a suggestion as to what software package I should use instead.
I am considering purchasing a Korg nanoKEY2 to interface to NWC. I want to use the nano USB keyboard to interface with NWC so that I can get my original songs into music notation. I have tried converting flute WAV files to midi files, then importing them into NWC, but the results have been very bad, so I want to use a midi keyboard into NWC.
My question is, if I buy a Kord nanoKEY2 USB keyboard, will I need anything else?
I have a song that has an instrumental intro, then after the master repeat open, the verse begins, and of course the lyrics should start there as well. When I use the Ctrl-L lyrics command, the words always start at the instrumental intro.
Is there a way to force the lyrics to start in the proper place?
