Any audio buffs out there mind helping?
polycounter lvl 18
A good friend of mine recently got himself a Roland Fantom-X8 keyboard, and is writing up a few songs on it (for me and for himself), and we're both a bit stumped as to how we're gonna get the songs off of the keyboard. I can access the keyboard via a usb cable, and I'm able to get at what we believe to be the song files, but I have no way of playing / converting them off the system. They're saved as .svq files, and for myself I'd like to get it converted to an .ogg for use with Unreal Tournament; he'd like to get them to a standard audio file (.wav or something similar) to put to cd. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
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You need to Mix the SVQ in your sequencer. on the FANTOM X8 is a sequencer that you use to create the SVQ files. you have to "mix-down" the songs and it plays through the track and re-enters the whole song into one of the Audio tracks and saves it as a .wav file. From there you can USB it over to a PC.
Check out this big cool forum...lots of great info there...
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/
And i'll second that suggestion, kvraudio's great.
Sledgy, which controllers are you choosing between? I want to get one as well, but the only one i've found so far with enough knobs on it (teehee, knobs) in my pricerange was the Korg mikrokontrol, and i don't know if i'll enjoy the smaller keys.
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he could but then any specific synth sounds used on the keyboard would be lost, it would just be the raw musical data. so if he has it sounding the way he wants it would be pain to try and emulate the synth sounds.
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Thats what soundbanks are for, no?
I've tried out a few various ones at local shops but I haven't been able to demo one with the same action and key spacing as my Kurzweil PC-88 other than the Kurzweil PC2 (although I haven't had a chance to find or demo the K2600 which looks nice) I have big fat farmer fingers so i need keys that are a hair wider
Are you talking about soundfonts?
The only use of the word 'soundbank' i'm familiar with is as a sampleset for a sampler, and i can't see that working, especially if there is any sort of parameter modulation or automation going on.