Topic: Audio Glitches with "Audio In"

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  • August 14, 2012 at 14:10 #2801
    arkmabat
    Participant

    Podium has worked great with midi so far for me. With:

    Virtual Midi Keyboard
    http://vmpk.sourceforge.net/

    and:

    MidiYoke:
    http://www.midiox.com/

    one doesn’t even need a midi keyboard to play with the “qwerty” keyboard!

    Anyway, I moved over to actual audio input and when I set it up the volume goes in the red and makes a terrible fizzing sound. I’m using Asio4all on a vista and was plugging a microphone into the blue socket on my soundcard. I played around with Asio4all’s settings but couldn’t get it to work. Any thougts? I realize this might be more Asio4all’s problem than a problem with Podium. Thanks!

    August 14, 2012 at 18:36 #22128
    The Telenator
    Participant

    Before I went out a bought a controller keyboard, I tried for ages to make the virtual MIDI keyboard setup work with zero results. Sometimes a total freeze. sometimes the keyboard won’t load. Worse of all, when I did get one to load, I could record MIDI tracks but had no plugin to create sound to monitor, since the keyboard was taking up the plugin slot on the track and Podium will not accept a second plug. Running in from keyboard on desktop, I always had issues with Podium having a fit because the keyboard was on the screen, even though technically outside the host and shouldn’t be subject to Podium’s control and touchiness.

    I tried loading the keyboard from outside via MidiYoke with not much better results. I think the keyboard you have linked here is the only one I never came across in my trials. Are you routing via MidiYoke cables from the keyboard on desktop? Or just how are you doing it? Many, and formerly including myself, badly wanted this ability. Could you give details to your setup?

    As for the other, check to be sure these MidiYoke cables and that yoke installation is not interfering with your audio connection. Then check to make sure you don’t have the PC’s internal GM synth connected in Podium’s Audio & MIDI setup pages. That can often foul up audio inputs in Podium.

    August 14, 2012 at 18:44 #22129
    arkmabat
    Participant

    Yes, it’s a standalone app.

    Open the keyboard app and send the midi to midiyoke1 (edit -> midi connections) keep the keyboard open and then load podium and set midiyoke1 as the midi in (under setup-> midi/audio interfaces)

    Thanks for the input.

    August 14, 2012 at 18:46 #22130
    arkmabat
    Participant

    Asio4all has an update (V 2.11) and “audio in” works for me now!

    http://www.asio4all.com/

    Podium could be the next Garageband for Windows! It’s already got the same look… 😀

    August 14, 2012 at 20:00 #22132
    The Telenator
    Participant

    arkmabat,

    Thanks for that. I’ve done precisely that setup before with Bome’s Mouse Keyboard and got rather bad results. But I’ll try again with this new-to-me keyboard. Also, Podium tends to ‘freak out’ with anything else in focus on the desktop. Even though I did buy a hardware keys, I want the functionality of a virtual kb, if for no other reason than almost every respectable DAW has one now, and they do come in handy when in a hurry. We’ll see . .

    Thanks for info on ASIO4ALL, too! Yes, it was an issue in the audio on most soundcards, mine included, though the rest worked swell. Can’t wait to look into this.

    Cheers!
    Tele

    August 15, 2012 at 13:43 #22139
    kingtubby
    Participant

    Just to satisfy my own curiosity I tried the VMPK/virtual midi setup and it works fine here.

    September 23, 2012 at 06:07 #22315
    arkmabat
    Participant

    I still seem to be getting audio glitches once in a while. Any suggestions on improving the performance? More ram? Upgrade my Vista to Win7? Better audio card device? 😕

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