Can I use something besides the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth to play midi files in Windows? [more inside]
posted by amsterdam63 on Jan 19, 2012 - 2 answers

Bring me up to date on modern music creation on a Mac and/or iPad? [more inside]
posted by buckaroo_benzai on Oct 13, 2011 - 10 answers

My girlfriend's son is in a band, and he wants to start adding synth/electronic stuff to his music. I personally some stuff, and could write some stuff up, but I'm looking for a really good basic overview of the technology (not necessarily too detailed, but if it got into details later, it would be ok, perhaps). [more inside]
posted by symbioid on Jan 11, 2011 - 7 answers

i've been scouring the internet to find out what this particular (i think) midi controller is and i can't find it anywhere. besides the national i know spencer krug from wolf parade uses one as well, i saw him using it last month. it's within the first few seconds of the song. thanks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6O6WEe3VI0
posted by hiddenknives on Nov 20, 2010 - 2 answers

I've got a PC, and an EMU-49 key midi controller. I've also got an Audiophile 192 sound card with midi-in-out connections. What I want to do is play some synths on the PC.... [more inside]
posted by Thistledown on Aug 2, 2009 - 14 answers

DoesorwhydoesntthisexistFilter: A very simple guitar synth. [more inside]
posted by tmcw on Aug 10, 2008 - 19 answers

Why won't my Yamaha DX11 make any noise? There's [more inside]
posted by Monstrous Moonshine on Sep 3, 2006 - 3 answers

MIDIFilter: I recently had the good fortune to acquire four MIDI instruments: a Roland Juno 106 and three "modules" (synths w/o keyboards). I want to be able to control the three modules with either the Juno 106 or a MIDI controller (keyboard w/o a synth) or maybe even my Mac. (I use Ableton Live and Reason). [more inside]
posted by eustacescrubb on Oct 13, 2004 - 5 answers