The Self Illusion - Promenade2239

ok. thanks. glad I could help. we can talk anytime. alex

Thank you Joe for nice comment!

I had the same midi latency problems as well. Asio driver helps a lot

www.asio4all.com

www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/installing-and-using-asio4all-for-windows/

It is not the matter of the quality of equipment at all - I am using only and old laptop and simple midi keyboard. Any sophisticated and costly equipment.

I figured out from your profile that you're using Magix MM. This might be useful:

www.magix.info/uk/how-to-solve-latency-problem.online-training.130215.html click the PDF to download.

Still I do not know what is the actual problem but I hope some of this will help.

I spent on this track over 4 hours (in 2 sessions), the reason why it sounds good is that I am actually a trained keyboard player and am familiar with the acoustic instruments. MrRay22 is an emulation of 70's electric pianos as Fender Rhodes, the Wurlitzer EP and the Yamaha DX7 FM. So basically I tried to play the plugin with appropriate keyboard touch as if it was a real instrument. I had to quantize many notes (as always). Also I used a lot of EQ effect and some Stereo Enhancer to get nice tone of the recording. I had some serious problems with laptop stability and with the plugin itself so this was not so easy to make eventhough it sounded easy at the end.

Good luck and please write me more detailed message if you still will have problems with midi.

Best to you, Alex

Thank you! I have been using MrRay when creating epiano on my tracks for quite a long time. I had to layer it again and again to get the satisfying results. No difference this time. It's not sample-based but still very great plugin. Also the chord progression and my playing are quite simple here - that may be the reason for seeking interesting 'soundscape' instead. I want post some songs that are entirely live played (in opposite to 'produced') soon.
I just discovered this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clqR9Qi_AAU and am listening a lot to this. That was also my main inspiration on this track.
Many thanks for your nice words! Alex