Midi Keyboard with AxeFX II

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bossredman

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I have an AxeFX II which is hooked up to a DIY midi foot controller via the midi IN & midi OUT ports.
The AFX is also connected to my laptop via USB for use with AxeEdit.

I read somewhere that the AFX can also act as a sound card, which made me wonder if I could use it to get my Midi Controller Keyboard up & running using my laptop with a VST host & VST piano plugin.

Ideally I'd like not to have to disconnect the MFC from the AFX's midi ports.
So was wondering if I connect the keyboard to a midi interface (ie M-Audio Midisport 1x1 USB MIDI Interface) via a std midi cable & then connected the MIDI interface to my laptop with a USB cable - would I be able to achieve a low latency setup?
Low enough to just be able to noodle/play at home.

So I tried this & whilst I get sound from the keyboard - there is some latency - not huge - but enough to be distracting whilst playing.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/r.html?...ef_=pe_1909131_77697121_tnp_email_TE_AMZLdp_1
Anyone know if I can achieve a really low latency setup with what I've currently got & maybe if I'm doing something wrong?
 
Lower the buffer size in the audio driver set up of your DAW. I have the AXE at about 2ms reported latency in reaper.
 
OK thanks.
Axe Edit was already close.
As for buffer size- any ideas how to do that in VSTHost pls?
As i see "ASIO Control Panel" under "DEVICES" - but its greyed out
 
I guess it depends on your vst host. I'm using reaper. In the audio device set up I have asio4all installed and the buffer size set to 64samples. I don't tend to use many vst's and my pc is reasonable fast so it seems to be ok at that level.
 
Hi Thanks - I tried SaviHost first off - but it flagged up all kinds of warnings by my anti-virus & WIndows - so left it alone.

I'm now using the asio4all drivers which have improved things a little but still get a few pops & clicks regardless of buffer size.

I'll keep digging cheers.

Do you use a piano VSTi - if so what is it pls & is it any good?
 
I read you are trying to achieve this on the cheap hence why you want to use the AxeFx as a soundcard. Personally I use a dedicated souncard for my audio/DAW/VSTi. 4Front True Piano sounds pretty good and its not a huge sample library
 
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bossredman said:
Hi Thanks - I tried SaviHost first off - but it flagged up all kinds of warnings by my anti-virus & WIndows - so left it alone.

I'm now using the asio4all drivers which have improved things a little but still get a few pops & clicks regardless of buffer size.

I'll keep digging cheers.

Do you use a piano VSTi - if so what is it pls & is it any good?
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Interesting i never had any warnings other than the typical "unknown publisher" message from any of my anti virus scanners and i have used that since windows XP. My current protection is windows 10 & Bitdefender.

For piano VST i use Modartt's Pianoteq. It sounds amazing and takes up very little space as it uses pure physical modeling instead of samples. They have sound samples and a demo on their site you can try out.
 
bossredman said:
All I was looking to do was use a single piano VSTi.
I was trying to do it on the cheap so Id started by using the free software VSTHost http://www.hermannseib.com/english/vsthost.htm
and DSK_AkoustiK_KeyZ.

So not sure if they are playing a part.

Other suggestions more than welcome.
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You can download reaper full version and trial it free indefinitely, but its so good and the licence is so cheap you'll not mind paying for it.
 
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