arg--feeling massively newb
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 2:48 am
i hope someone can help. i had this working on another pc a few years ago, but i've clearly forgotten anything i once knew. trying to get around Fantasia on Windows 7. any tutorials i've found haven't really helped.
1) do i need to use the Instrument Database? the panel is blank and largely unresponsive. if i use Window -> Instruments Database, and try to Add Instruments -> From Directory, i point to the .gig files on my server and click OK but the window just sits there until i click Cancel, so that's fun.
2) do i need to use Orchestras? if they're just a confusingly named way to file groups of instruments together, then i suspect not?
3) i seem to be able to load an instrument successfully in the center rack--not sure what Instrument Map to specify, if any. is one required? i hope not, since there are none listed. Audio Output options are empty, which may be related to my biggest confusions:
4) my only MIDI Devices panel Driver option is MME. this doesn't correspond to the tutorials i've seen, so i already feel i'm on shaky ground. the Create button is inactive, and shouldn't i be able to light the power button in the upper left?
5) Audio Devices panel: neither ASIO4ALL nor BR-80 (my preferred audio device) allow me to specify Channels, Fragments, or Samplerate (not that i'd know how, frankly) and the Create button is, again, disabled. no idea how to address this or 'power' the panel up.
1) do i need to use the Instrument Database? the panel is blank and largely unresponsive. if i use Window -> Instruments Database, and try to Add Instruments -> From Directory, i point to the .gig files on my server and click OK but the window just sits there until i click Cancel, so that's fun.
2) do i need to use Orchestras? if they're just a confusingly named way to file groups of instruments together, then i suspect not?
3) i seem to be able to load an instrument successfully in the center rack--not sure what Instrument Map to specify, if any. is one required? i hope not, since there are none listed. Audio Output options are empty, which may be related to my biggest confusions:
4) my only MIDI Devices panel Driver option is MME. this doesn't correspond to the tutorials i've seen, so i already feel i'm on shaky ground. the Create button is inactive, and shouldn't i be able to light the power button in the upper left?
5) Audio Devices panel: neither ASIO4ALL nor BR-80 (my preferred audio device) allow me to specify Channels, Fragments, or Samplerate (not that i'd know how, frankly) and the Create button is, again, disabled. no idea how to address this or 'power' the panel up.