I have fruity Loops 4, and a midi keyboard named, Studio logic cmk 161, along with a yamaha ux16 1x1 usb midi interface. I heard midi had a delay but, when wow! I can't play my music the way I want to because, when I try to play it on the keyboard if I play too fast it cannot pick up what I am trying to do accurately, I tried adjusting the buffer, and it worked to some degree, but, If I turn that down too low, the music sounds distorted, is there any way for me to get more accurate midi?
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Please post your PC specifications in here, such as RAM CPU etc... the more info the better.
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dell 2.4 ghz pentium 4 processor (pretty sure that's the processor)
40 gb harddrive, 256 mb memory, windows xp
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when I try to play it on the keyboard if I play too fast it cannot pick up what I am trying to do accurately

Are you sure this is a too many notes problem or is it a delay between what you play and what you hear?

And your soundcard is the default one which came with your PC?

Sounds like a buffer issue, and what drivers for your soundcard are you using?

ASIO/WDM drivers are preferable over Direct X or MME.
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use a real recording program if you want good results. In my opinion fruity loops is the bottom of the barrel. Try Acid 4.0 or if you wanna get really into it, any of the SONAR series. Get a soundcard that supports soundfonts for real sounding instuments, or opt for some VST plugins. using the virtual keyboards in the program to program out each note eliminates any delay, but if you are a free-styleing synth player, use an actual MIDI port, not that USB interface stuff.

im pretty sure what you are doing is quantisizing your notes. its a setting in Frooty Loops. I use Reason so i cant help you change it, but look it up in "help". You can turn it off, or make it more detailed. Ill try to explain what it is.

If you are playing a kick and snare with your keyboard, you can quantisize the notes, by turning quantisization on. if you set it at 1/4, it will move the note to the closest quarted note (just like rounding to closes whole number). So if you count 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and... you usually want the kick on 1 and the snare on 2. But sometimes you might be off on your snare. if you turn quantisization to 1/4, it will correct it for you by moving it to the nearest quarter note, which will probably be 2 (unless your rhythem is way off). If your rhythimh is way off, it will move to 3, or 1, not 2.

Your problem is that you are playing notes on your midi keyboard, and those notes are being moved to the nearest quantisized notes, making it chopy. You should either turn it off, or make your quantisization more detailed, like 1/16 or 1/32. If your doing drums, its good to keep it at 1/8 for hip hop/r&b. Play around and figure it out.

Hope i helped.

I guess it could be quantization, did you get to the bottom of this?
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