How do I hear midi without turning on a sequencing app every time

[Michael Chinen]

Hi.

I have a midi usb keyboard working properly - when I launch finale, i can
input, and play piano songs (where the sound actually comes out of my
speakers.)

What I have been unsucessfully trying to do is to be able to press
buttons on my keyboard and hear the sound without having to launch finale.
I'm not sure If I have the terminology right, but I think this would be an
example of 'auto sequencing'?

Is there something built in to windows that allows this? Or perhaps some
website has a solution?

Insight would be appreciated,

Mike Chinen

[Laurence Payne]

>I have a midi usb keyboard working properly - when I launch finale, i can
>input, and play piano songs (where the sound actually comes out of my
>speakers.)
>
>What I have been unsucessfully trying to do is to be able to press
>buttons on my keyboard and hear the sound without having to launch finale.
>I'm not sure If I have the terminology right, but I think this would be an
>example of 'auto sequencing'?

Sounds more like an example of 'playing the keyboard' :-)
Or am I not understanding what you want?

CubaseFAQ page www.laurencepayne.co.uk/CubaseFAQ.htm

[NoHeadRequired]

"Michael Chinen" <mchinen@cs.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:20030609220829.B21117-100000@sumatra.cs.washington.edu...
> Hi.
>
> I have a midi usb keyboard working properly - when I launch finale, i can
> input, and play piano songs (where the sound actually comes out of my
> speakers.)
>
> What I have been unsucessfully trying to do is to be able to press
> buttons on my keyboard and hear the sound without having to launch finale.
> I'm not sure If I have the terminology right, but I think this would be an
> example of 'auto sequencing'?
>
> Is there something built in to windows that allows this? Or perhaps some
> website has a solution?
>
> Insight would be appreciated,
>
> Mike Chinen
>

you seem to be looking for a MIDI Thru program - that simply takes the MIDI
input from your keyboard and passes it to your soundcard?

Do a Google for MIDI THRU PROGRAM or something like that look at
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/. Can't advise any more at the moment as I
don't know what computer and OS you are running.

D.

[JB Seattle]

I imagine you have a USB controller keyboard. There is no soundchip in such
boards and midi has no sound--it is a data file to tell a sound chip what to
sound. The controller is only sending data to the PC--not music.
The PC needs some way to decode the data coming in and recoding it to tell
the sound chip in your card what to sound. That is what a sequencer
does--it receives and sends midi code data.
JB
"Michael Chinen" <mchinen@cs.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:20030609220829.B21117-100000@sumatra.cs.washington.edu...
> Hi.
>
> I have a midi usb keyboard working properly - when I launch finale, i can
> input, and play piano songs (where the sound actually comes out of my
> speakers.)
>
> What I have been unsucessfully trying to do is to be able to press
> buttons on my keyboard and hear the sound without having to launch finale.
> I'm not sure If I have the terminology right, but I think this would be an
> example of 'auto sequencing'?
>
> Is there something built in to windows that allows this? Or perhaps some
> website has a solution?
>
> Insight would be appreciated,
>
> Mike Chinen
>
>