From tibia@ozemail.com.au Thu Nov 06 06:05:47 2003
Subject:Re: B4 organ

Many many thanks to all you kind folks who have pointed me in the right direction with my queries about running the B4 software.

It's great to be able to just throw a question to the whole world and get answers in a very short time.
I really appreciate your thoughts on the matter and I'll probably be back with lots of stupid questions.
For now, you've got me thinking and I'll do quite a bit of investigating re a new soundcard and maybe upgrade to the latest version of Windows.

Claire, I'll take you up on your offer and give you a call.

Many thanks

John
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John Ferguson
Castlemaine, Victoria
Australia
Email: tibia@ozemail.com.au

----- Original Message -----
From: John Ferguson
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:34 PM
Subject: [CWSG] B4 organ

I've just downloaded the demo of the N.I. B4 software and I think it's fantastic and it has the sound that I want. I've made approaches to a dealer to get it but at the moment I'm hesitating because of a couple of matters which I can't resolve.

I want to play it live and although I'm quite used to a bit of delay in pipe organs, I don't know if I can live with the latency effect that I've had so far. I've been able to get the latency time down on what it was at first by quitting everything that was not needed on the computer. I've defragmented the hard drive also. I know there will always be SOME latency, that's fine, but I was wondering how to minimise it down to some sort of practical degree for live playing.

I'm using a Pentium III computer which runs at 950mhz. It has 390K of ram, 20 Gig hard drive and a SoundBlaster Live card and I'm running Win98 2E. Is this whole system adequate to run the B4 or would you suggest I change something? Would I be better with a 'dedicated' computer, if so, what general type of specification would you suggest?

I'm also not sure how I would control the B4 software either. Ideally, I would like to play it from my Yamaha EL90 organ which has midi but I don't know how I would control the B4 from it. From what I read, it seems as if any of the B4's effects can be assigned to a preset including tremolo / vibrato / percussion etc so I 'could' survive on presets if I had to and not use the drawbars 'live'.

If I were to just set up the presets on the B4 to whatever I want, does anyone know if the presets of the B4 can be assigned to the preset buttons on the EL90? The EL90's 16 presets do correspond to patch changes.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks
John

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