Welcome to another DigitalLifestyle.com video show and today we are looking at something different than we normally look up. We look at media center I think that with out the home server and new PCs, but today I am going to look up something that I use for my amusement equipment and that’s type of a PC and it’s the HP TC1100 and I got the old faithful tablet PC. By the way, it will be interesting to see how we use up with the rest of my music equipment and how it actually really change the way that I use when I do music record it from such transition the way from the hardware base equipment like this to just really control a keyboard and software on the tablet PC.
What’s nice about the tablet PC, that I use the pen on it and I have really look spacious for a keyboard and a mouse and so the tablet PC is ideal like in touch screen to use it to kind of tracks the music and everything else or just with the pen and it works great for me. So what will I do is have a quick look around to the software they use and so with the process that use to through that.
So first I'm going to show off to have whether I am using and what’s really been down and what’s really when it used to be. So at the bottom here at the keyboard there is a Korg workstation. That used of my main hardware so you could select that deal with multi-track recording in drums and everything is still on there. And now I tend to use that for combination of the sounds and to control the keyboard but you don’t easily see the concern of that anymore. I use the sequence on the tablet PC.
And up here is another set and I also use that main as to control and that’s how I have got some nice sounds. And then here is a dedicated sound unit, a radioscope called radius and that is the sound control and that’s the kind of nice hyper device because as well as having all the buttons and the controls in there, it’s got some software that comes with it that I can use it on the tablet PC to control any sound in programming, so it’s a nice dual function device and it’s got a USB input which does that control plus the sequence that can control the device through USB as well.
And there on the top, you also got the little USB to MIDI controller and MIDI is the way that music instruments can talk to each other. So the two keyboards connect into the USB controller there and finish the tablet PC. I have got a little USB hook there. Up here, the other important part of the whole thing really that is on that pile of wire is my little AT ROM. It looks like a mixing desk. It is a mixing desk and it’s got audio imports on there. It is also USB audio device as well and it actually works as a sound card of the tablet PC because the tablet PC has its own sound card and it’s up to the job, so all the audio devices have a look sound fit inputs going to there and it’s also use to capture that audio into the PC through there and that audio through there as well. Because on the tablet PC, I’ve got different software that I can put there but some instruments have actually just virtually instruments that go entirely in there.
So let’s load up the media editing software of this and I’m going to use key base accessory. Now this is what you say about the tablet PC, it’s TC1100 so this is an old tablet PC with an XP. I used a 2710p now which is a Vista machine from my main tablet PC’s to phone podcaster.
So this is really dedicated music device now as well as be in as a kind of back up PC just in case. But this is really is all my music stuff, so to start of some ideas what can you do and why the tablet PC is useful as second, create a new project and then add a MIDI track. So I can just kiss the frame for this and let this stuff as an example. Why this gets more useful is you can have virtual devices so I can add a something simple. Let’s go for power module. So this panel module is pure software. It doesn’t exist. All the sounds that you can hear now are from the tablet PC and going out through the sound card.
And so I can import, gets rooted out to the piano module. So this is coming from the one important control keyboard down here and it’s going through that and that’s full. You can see the tablet PC. What I am going to do now is do my old procedure and do some recording. So I recalled some MIDI. This is kind of nice information not the sound. I can show why this is useful, I am going to play a boom note so let’s start that now.
Let’s just check that plays and you can hear that playback now. So it’s just playing back the no information, not the actual sounds so I can do now is come on to here. I can double click on the file and you can see there, that’s the actual notes being played. That’s the piano row. So I can find the note that was the boom note, so there’s the note that was rang and that was the wrong note. So I could leave it around. It provides the right key and change the time of it slightly.
Let’s just listen to it now. You can see it coming now. You can see the timeline coming across, and it’s just in the right key. That was the wrong note I could just get rid of it, so that is where the tablet is useful just to pitch it up. What I could do now is completely change out the right piano and I maybe using virtual instrument. This is called Korg –wave station which is a keyboard from the late 90’s and it’s virtualized. The Korg virtualized their technology and it can pick a sound and let’s go for that one, and I can say right so it’s the piano. So to the wave station, and there we go. Let’s get something a bit more advanced.
The great thing that the tablet PC is this, let’s take a quick look at this track. So this is a more advanced track. We got a few different audio tracks there so I can play that one. We got a mixture here with real instruments of virtual is. So the real instruments are actually record of the keyboards with stored in the memories wave files to stay on the hard disk and play along side that. We got some virtual instruments at the same time.
So you hear the drums, the drums are from the radius unit and that play of MIDI and then record it. But with effects put on it and then it lets your electric guitar touch it from a real electric guitar that I play into the unit and then added effects. So the electric guitar, I have no pedals or any special effects for it. It’s all just done through here and the effects rather done in later day.
So to back this up, I’m just going to play another track that you maybe familiar with that the way you’ve seen there and listen to me at the start of the show. From this, I am using a combination device, the radius and the Korg keyboards and this is what controls the box here, to control the keyboards and really the keyboards control it in. And what is changed is it using the tablet PC and virtual devices is only mere using of more of controller than these other devices doing the actual work or the processing work. So what I am going to play, you may quantify the solo on track.
So that’s the media center show key, so this is I normally work with a pen or just with a camera and so something on sound on here, something down here, so if I was going to just play a lead on top of that. It gets it all ready, set the track to record it.
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