Logic Express 8 Midi Files, Am I overloading my MIDI files ? Options

[iDavid]

Hello all, I am using an Akai EWI4000 to control Wallander woodwinds in Logic Express 8. The MIDI files when I try to play them back are missing notes and have some new ones, very frustrating. The AkaiEWI sends 10 cc#'s- is it possible that coreMIDI drivers are being swamped by the amount of info and then can't play it back because they where "corrupted" when I made them? Simple keyboard MIDI files work-it's the wind controller MIDI files that don't function well-any ideas about it before I start turning off expressive capabilities?
I record the Line Out too, and it is very good-if the projects where not dependant on being able to change the Project tuning Pararmeters I could just use audio files. If one of you kind people know about MIDI would you please tell me if I'm right about the amount of data[continuous controllers] messing up the Midi files?

[iDavid]

Hello all, I am using an Akai EWI4000 to control Wallander woodwinds in Logic Express 8. The MIDI files when I try to play them back are missing notes and have some new ones, very frustrating. The AkaiEWI sends 10 cc#'s- is it possible that coreMIDI drivers are being swamped by the amount of info and then can't play it back because they where "corrupted" when I made them? Simple keyboard MIDI files work-it's the wind controller MIDI files that don't function well-any ideas about it before I start turning off expressive capabilities?
I record the Line Out too, and it is very good-if the projects where not dependant on being able to change the Project tuning Pararmeters I could just use audio files. If one of you kind people know about MIDI would you please tell me if I'm right about the amount of data[continuous controllers] messing up the Midi files?

Hello all, I am using an Akai EWI4000 to control Wallander woodwinds in Logic Express 8. The MIDI files when I try to play them back are missing notes and have some new ones, very frustrating. The AkaiEWI sends 10 cc#'s- is it possible that coreMIDI drivers are being swamped by the amount of info and then can't play it back because they where "corrupted" when I made them? Simple keyboard MIDI files work-it's the wind controller MIDI files that don't function well-any ideas about it before I start turning off expressive capabilities?
I record the Line Out too, and it is very good-if the projects where not dependant on being able to change the Project tuning Pararmeters I could just use audio files. If one of you kind people know about MIDI would you please tell me if I'm right about the amount of data[continuous controllers] messing up the Midi files?

Thanks Houstonmusic for helping! I am recording one woodwind with no other instruments and no effects[compression,etc.]; I am using a PPC G4 1.5Ghz 1GB RAM Mini,through a USB Edirol UA-25-and it has supported much more than this until I got the Wind Controller.

[houstonmusic]

Okay,
you're on the bottom edge of the spec, there, i bet. can you selectively begin to thin the midi CC output from the wind controller? Perhaps do a few tests that gradually increase the density? it's been a while since i used a g4 system, and i recall midi bottlenecks appearing from time to time. the interface is probably fine, if you could arrange a test that switches it out though, i'd do that too. a quick survey of the YouTube videos demoing the EWI4000 show everybody on Intel based machines, for what that's worth.
keep us updated.

[iDavid]

Okay,
you're on the bottom edge of the spec, there, i bet. can you selectively begin to thin the midi CC output from the wind controller? Perhaps do a few tests that gradually increase the density? it's been a while since i used a g4 system, and i recall midi bottlenecks appearing from time to time. the interface is probably fine, if you could arrange a test that switches it out though, i'd do that too. a quick survey of the YouTube videos demoing the EWI4000 show everybody on Intel based machines, for what that's worth.
keep us updated.

Thanks houstonmusic, I will begin thinning out the MIDI data[I don't even really use the pitch-bend anyway] . I had a nephew visiting who repairs Macs and he thought this was a case of the Mini not being really the right Mac for this-but I'm too poor to buy a bigger, better Mac right now, and he was surprised to hear what a Mini can handle.
I'm not certain exactly what would increase the density-could you clarify that? I have taken the Edirol and Akai to a friend's house and get the same results in his Intel Mini in GarageBand. i had a M-Audio 1x1 MIDI to USB and it was the same[as far as MIDI was concerned] i got the Edirol because the Apple Store said they had better results with it,and I wanted to see what the Line Out was doing compared to the MIDI. Thanks again and i will post the developments as they happen. and I do have 2.4 installed-that's the newest software upgrade from Akai.