Old 05-28-2011, 02:00 PM   #41
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This is a very detailed tutorial. thank you.

But when I right click and choose the new instrument, I don't get a browsable window, just a list of VSTs.

Where are all these VSTs?

I put a bunch into a folder I named VSTPlugins in the same folder as reaper, but Reaper doesn't see it.

How do I get Reaper to see my VSTi's??
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Old 06-23-2011, 08:53 PM   #42
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(To widetrack regarding this exact issue and question directly above, here's a solution for you)

I know it's about a whole month later, but just in the small case you haven't yet found the answer, or someone else is asking, I posted about this exact thing, once I finally figured it out and after I too struggled with this question for a few hours.

On this link, I start the thread with a question, however midway down you'll see the instructions I posted to do exactly this, "GETTING REAPER TO RECOGNIZE KONTAKT'S VST's. It will tell you what to do!

http://co.native-instruments.com/for...275#post887275

Hope this helps you or anyone else
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Old 06-25-2011, 08:01 PM   #43
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And here are the equivalent steps for SampleTank2.5 (32 outputs, 16 stereo channels). Yes, I know it's almost Bugatti blue but I prefer that to the Ferrari red default.

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Old 07-05-2011, 01:07 PM   #44
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Guys I am sorry but I am more lost now than I ever was. I don't want to sound negative, but I'm completely confused, as every time I try and find something to help guide me through the steps I need to get in order to achieve the results I'm looking for, I seem to find forums, videos etc, that never really take me from A to Z.


They either start from G and seem to end at Q, or they are explained in technical talk that speaks to me like I know what something is or where it's located.


I am brand new to Kontakt and Reaper both. I'm trying to get it set up so that Reaper acts as my Master/Trigger and Kontakt plays each instrument it's told to play through Reaper's sequencer.


To be more clear so that it's understood exactly what I'm trying to do, let's pretend I'm trying to set up a 4 piece band. I want four sequencer tracks (drawn in on Reaper) each with their own corresponding instrument on Kontakt.


For the first sequencer track on Reaper, I want it to trigger the guitars from one of the guitar libraries I have in Kontakt's library. For the second track on Reaper, I want it to correspond with the bass. For the third, drums, and fourth we'll say another guitar or other sound/instrument etc.


How do I set this up? I've followed just about every step out there, but every time I attempt to do it, I get completely lost. Either the words are changed due to different versions of both programs. (I'm on Kontakt 4 and Reaper 3.76 by the way) Or I hear things explained that talk to me like I'm supposed to know what certain terms are, where they are located, or what it means, when I have absolutely no understanding of certain technical terms and locations, etc.



For instance, under the section from above: Separate MIDI Input and Audio Out tracks [Kontakt 3]

Under step 5 it says:

5 Configure the routing inside the VSTi; for Kontakt 3:
- create the additional Kontakt Mixer channels if needed,
- connect each Kontakt Mixer channel to the appropriate VSTi Reaper outputs,
- route each Instrument to the desired Kontakt mixer channel.

lol, sorry, but I have absolutely no idea what any of this means or how to do it. How do I create the additional Kontakt mixer channels? How do I connect them to the appropriate VSTi Reaper outputs? How do I route them? See how hopeless I am? lol.



also under step 2 (same section) it says:

2 Build 16 tracks of MIDI input and, for each track, select the MIDI input device/channel:
In the FX Chain window, click [Options] select "Build 16 channels of MIDI routing to this track".
For each of the MIDI tracks, right-click the Record [R] button, select the MIDI input device and channel.

When I right-click record/arm button on each of these tracks, it gives me different options. I go to "Midi Input" and then I have the following 3 options: Virtual Midi Keyboard, All Midi Inputs, and Map Input to Channel.

For what I'm trying to do, which one do I need or do I not even go to "Midi Input" but instead am supposed to be selecting something else?



I could really use help from someone walking me through the beginning, to the end. I hope I don't come off as needy, but I'm just so lost and have tried and tried off and on for weeks (between my schedule) to figure out what I'm doing with no luck or understanding if I'm doing it right.


I do not need pictures (as I don't want it to be any more troublesome or burdening than it needs to be). Just step for step instructions that say, "step one, do this... step two, now click on this... and select the following option (as it's listed)" instead of saying technical things like, "now route your such and such to this cadabber" as I end up saying, "what in the world does this mean" lol.


Also, if it's located in a certain spot or drop down menu or window, it would be extremely helpful if it would say something like, "now a window pops up, and to the left you'll see a small green box that says ... click that and select..."


I am very grateful to all who have helped and taken time to post things like the above and it's very thoughtful of you all who've put fourth the effort and energy to give us info, but unfortunately, I just am not getting it do to being brand new to all this kind of info. Thanks again my friends for anyone who has tried to help me so far, and thanks for being patient with a complete noob lol.
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Old 07-05-2011, 01:35 PM   #45
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Have you tried this?
http://tutorialsforreaper.com/2010/0...ment-properly/

Seems to be just what you're looking for (except it's a video, and not written out )
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Old 07-06-2011, 03:42 AM   #46
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On DarkStar's request I moved all questions and remarks into the accompanying discussion thread: Darkstar's "Configuring Multi-Output VSTis" Discussion Area.

In the interest of keeping this one maintainable and informative, please use the linked thread for questions and discussion.

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Old 07-06-2011, 05:53 AM   #47
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Yes, the steps I described do assume a working knowledge of Kontakt and the basics of Reaper.

So here's another try.

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To be more clear so that it's understood exactly what I'm trying to do, let's pretend I'm trying to set up a 4 piece band. I want four sequencer tracks (drawn in on Reaper) each with their own corresponding instrument on Kontakt.
In Reaper:
-- right- click below any existing track headers (Track Control Panels, or TCPs)
-- select "Insert Virtual Instrument on new track,
-- select Kontakt by double-clicking it,
-- on the "Building Routing Confirmation" window, click "Yes" is you want separate audio outputs for each Instrument, otherwise click "No"

In Kontakt:
-- see Chapter 14 in the Kontakt manual for full details
-- open the Outputs section, by clicking the Mixer icon at the top
-- click [Add channel] 3 times to add three more Output channels to Kontakt
-- if there is a Surround 5.1 channel, select it and click [Delete channel]
-- you should then have 4 main channels and 4 Aux channels
-- for each of the main channels, click [Conf], type in a name ("st.2") etc, and select the physical outputs by clicking them and selecting from the list (st.1 should go to the first two plugin outputs, st.2 to the next two etc
-- you may need to close and re-open Kontakt to apply those changes (I don't here)

-- load your 4 Instruments into the Kontakt Rack
-- for the instruments, change the Outputs to st.1, 2, 3, 4 respectively and the MIDI Ch to [A] 1, 2, ,3 or 4 respectively

Now you have 4 instruments in Kontakt, each receiving MIDI on its own channel and sending its audio out on a separate channel

Back in Reaper:
-- set up 4 tracks to send MIDI to Kontakt
-- select the Kontakt track
-- click [Track], select "Insert track", repeat 3 more times
-- for each of those 4 tracks,
drag the [io] button onto the Kontakt track
in the pop-up dialogue, click on the "v" next to "Audio 1/2" and select "None",
click on the "v" after ">= All" and select the MIDI channel for that track
double-click the track name area and type in the Instrument name
Now you have:
4 tracks routing MIDI into Kontakt, each using a different channel,
4 Instruments in Kontakt each receiving MIDI on a different channel,
4 output channels in Kontakt, each receiving a different Instrument's audio
many output tracks in Reaper, the first 4 receving the audio from Kontakt.
You can delete the additional output tracks if you want.


HTH


Save all the tracks as a track Template
-- select them all (click the first, Shift+click the last)
-- right-click, select "Save selected tracks as track template"
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Old 07-06-2011, 12:09 PM   #48
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Kevin thanks much my friend. Yes I had seen that video, but I went back and tried it again, and seemed to have more success. It still for some reason doesn't work for me when I follow the video. (I don't know if I have messed up settings somewhere or what) However, I was able to improvise a bit and basically what I did was just click on each Reaper track's FX button, and added the 8 channel Kontakt for each of Reaper's tracks.

I guess you could say if I was running 4 tracks, each with their own corresponding instrument, there would be 4 Kontakt tracks/instruments and 4 instances of Kontakt running. But if it works then it works. I guess I was just wanting to make sure that I was doing it right.

Either way, thanks so much for your help and response. Now I'm gonna try DarkStar's directions above, I'm sure I'll find many things I was missing.

Also, I am out of town right now and all my stuff is at home. I'll go ahead and just google, but I'm hoping I can find a pdf manual for Kontakt. I'm sure they have one.

Thanks again all. DarkStar, thanks again for all the information you've put forth for all of us. I'm gonna be trying your post above soon as I get back from taking care of a few things today.

Thanks all
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Old 07-06-2011, 03:00 PM   #49
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The method you describe is less than ideal. It sounds like you're only using a single output for Kontakt with each instance. I guess that works, but it's not very CPU friendly.

I actually don't have Kontakt, so I probably can't be much more help. I encourage you to keep at it though. When I first tried to get my head around this stuff, it didn't make sense to me either. But with enough trial and error, and support from the forum, things eventually clicked. I suspect they will for you, to.

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Kevin thanks much my friend. Yes I had seen that video, but I went back and tried it again, and seemed to have more success. It still for some reason doesn't work for me when I follow the video. (I don't know if I have messed up settings somewhere or what) However, I was able to improvise a bit and basically what I did was just click on each Reaper track's FX button, and added the 8 channel Kontakt for each of Reaper's tracks.

I guess you could say if I was running 4 tracks, each with their own corresponding instrument, there would be 4 Kontakt tracks/instruments and 4 instances of Kontakt running. But if it works then it works. I guess I was just wanting to make sure that I was doing it right.

Either way, thanks so much for your help and response. Now I'm gonna try DarkStar's directions above, I'm sure I'll find many things I was missing.

Also, I am out of town right now and all my stuff is at home. I'll go ahead and just google, but I'm hoping I can find a pdf manual for Kontakt. I'm sure they have one.

Thanks again all. DarkStar, thanks again for all the information you've put forth for all of us. I'm gonna be trying your post above soon as I get back from taking care of a few things today.

Thanks all
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Old 07-06-2011, 03:22 PM   #50
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The method you describe is less than ideal. It sounds like you're only using a single output for Kontakt with each instance. I guess that works, but it's not very CPU friendly.
I just want to echo what Kevin says here. You can get up to 16 stereo outputs with one instance Kontakt and for what your doing you won't need any more than one instance. Kontakt usually shows 3 different dll files and you need to find the one that has the most outputs or at least enough outputs to do what you want to do. Even so, you will probably have to setup the Kontakt configuration too.

Try setting it up the way Darkstar describes and see what you come up with.
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Old 07-11-2011, 08:18 PM   #51
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[QUOTE=DarkStar;680874]The simplest way (it takes longer to type this than to do it):

In Reaper:
-- right-click below any existing Track Control Panels,
-- select "Insert Virtual Instrument on new track" and pick Kontakt,
-- in the Build Routing Confirmation window, click [Yes] to create the separate audio outputs for Kontakt,
-- open the FX Chain window,
-- select [Options] > "Build 16 channels of MIDI routing to this track".

Thank you so much for this post. I've seen several videos on YouTube that show you how to do this, one even claims that Reaper will route the whole thing for you automatically. None of them work. The closest that they come is the 4 MIDI tracks all routed to the same audio track. If you can't adjust the volume of each instrument independently, you don't really have much to work with. Thanks again DarkStar! ComposerParsons
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Old 10-20-2011, 11:25 AM   #52
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Hi DarkStar and all. I hesitate to ask this question because the answer might already be in the above.... which I've read and tried to follow... but... well... anyway... here goes.... Apologies in advance for redundancy and denseness on my part....

I know how to set up a multi out VSTi to receive MIDI from separate MIDI-only tracks, and to send its output to a different set of audio-only tracks. (For reference, I'm using Addictive Drums.)

What I would like to do is have a single track for both the MIDI that's being sent to the VSTi and the audio.

This appears to be what was originally described as:

# combined MIDI Input and Audio Output tracks

But I haven't been able to get this to work.

I'm not even sure if it's possible, especially if I don't want to have to mess with PDC and/or feedback routing issues, etc.

Basically, when not dealing with multiple outputs, a single track can send to and receive from the VSTi. I would like to have that same one-to-one correspondence with multiple outs.

Is that both possible AND practical?

Thanks you!
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Old 10-20-2011, 02:56 PM   #53
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Asking is always better than not asking.

Yes, and not sure.

With the "Combined" tracks you need to enable Feedback Routing (in Project Settings, Advanced tab) and PDC will not be correct.

What problem did you run into?
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Old 10-21-2011, 11:36 AM   #54
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What I would like to do is have a single track for both the MIDI that's being sent to the VSTi and the audio.
Me too! Almost desperately.

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With the "Combined" tracks you need to enable Feedback Routing (in Project Settings, Advanced tab) and PDC will not be correct
It's not only that (I could live with that by not using plugins that introduce any delay), but there is a delay on each channel in "feedback" depending on the buffer size of your soundcard.

There is a feature request in my signature torwards solving this problem. Please consider voting for it. Thanks.
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Old 10-27-2011, 08:14 PM   #55
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Using the info in this thread, and in this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkDXdrvYKlg it's actually pretty straight forward. But it still doesn't get you to a common midi/audio track when using multiple outs.

These 2 pics use the same routing, with 3 midi tracks sending to a common Kontakt instance, which then sends to 3 corresponding audio tracks.

The only difference between the 2 pics is that in the first, the audio/midi pair are organized into folders.

With folders:


Without folders:


What I'd like to have is something like this, which doesn't seem possible:

Single tracks (not possible?):
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It's not as though doing it as separate tracks is always undesirable.

But it would be good to have the option for single tracks that didn't involve the mental overhead of feedback routing and so on.

As I just posted in another thread on the same subject, what I don't get is why it's possible to have a single track both send midi to a VSTi and receive audio from the same vst when you are NOT using multiple outs from the vsti, but the same arrangement isn't possible when you ARE using multi outs.

What's the difference between the two situations? Why is 'feedback' an issue in one case and not the other?

http://forum.cockos.com/showpost.php...1&postcount=10

In any case, this seems to be the way it is, for now at least...
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I'm afraid all you can do at the moment is to vote for the feature request in my signture. At least I don't know of any other way to achieve what you are asking for. By introducing an extra buffer size dependent delay, enabling feedback routing seems to cause more problems than it solves.
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Old 02-08-2012, 09:26 PM   #58
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Hi all,

(this has been posted as a new stand-alone post, along this one here, not too sure how to hit the crowd who could help me. Sorry if I overstepped boundaries, let me know and I'll make it right...)

All right. Well, I'm starting to feel the pain of some dispersion of VSTs and VSTis on my computer and wonder if there's a utility that could find, grab and relocate them all. Once you start finding some cool ones and grabbing them, it's like browsing Kijiji, you get lost and end up with tons of them all over the place.

My softwares:

- Reaper
- Magix premium 15
- Cakewalk 9 ProAudio (yep, on Windows 7)
- EastWest Producer Collection (with PLAY)
- Synthogy
- Alchemy (lite?)
- Morphine
- FruityLoop 10 (demo)
- Izotope 4
- Reaktor 5
etc.

My goal: make my VSTs and VSTis easily accessible to all my DAWs. But I'm getting lost in the ocean of samples I have, and I don't know how to find my way back without breaking anything.

The main DAWs I'll be using would be Reaper, Magix and maybe something from NI.

Anyone has a realistic suggestion? Is there a VSTi librarian I could use without affecting latency? Or what would you suggest I do...

Thanks!

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Honestly i have all my vsts in one location on my second hard drive seperated into folders depending on their type.

Then I just point whatever software im using to that location and that's about it.

I do the exact same thing with samples. I have my main hard drive that has all my daws. And my samples drive that has my samples and my vsts all organized.

Then all I gotta do is point whatever software im using to that spot and im good to go. Or if I need to do a reinstall of windows I just re-setup the main OS drive and point my daws to the exact same location.

Pretty simple and organized actually.
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Thanks for the reply,

Obviously I'm too late for that. That's why I'm asking around. I doubt I'm the only one who faced this... :O)
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Thanks for the reply,

Obviously I'm too late for that. That's why I'm asking around. I doubt I'm the only one who faced this... :O)
Sorry hah, I've looked for something similar in the past but in the end decided what I did above was the easiest course. Hopefully someone else here can chime in with what you are looking for
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Or if I need to do a reinstall of windows I just re-setup the main OS drive and point my daws to the exact same location.

Pretty simple and organized actually.
and a good reason to keep all installed software and personal work off the OS drive whenever possible.
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Old 03-25-2012, 07:50 PM   #63
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Found this thread recently, and I am having issues as a newb to routing. I posted another thread about this a while back, but I didn't get any answer to my seemingly easy solution. I have made progress thanks to another user on another forum, but I still need help to solve the puzzle.

I'm using Geist as my VSTi and I got a track template from this guy in the giest forums. The template works great, so technically I guess I could start working, but I am truely trying to grasp routing a bit more, so I have been attempting to recreate the template on my own from scratch, but I have not had success.

In the template, (the tracks in order he has a Geist folder, then the geist instrument, then each of the 16 pads from geist laid to tracks in reaper, with 4 sub folders, for each row in the pads in geist. Now, in his template, he had signal going to each track. With my recreation, I only get signal from the geist instrument track, and then the master track next to it. When I click on any pad in geist, I get sound, but no signal shows up in any of the 16 tracks, except the first one. (As far as I know)I have recreated every step that the template has taken with the sends and recieves, but my version isn't working. Can anyone explain what is going on, and what I am doing wrong? Thanks.
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Sounds like you need to route each pad in Geist to a different Geist output (these will be mapped to the different track channels and thence to the other tracks). Look for "output selector" in the Geist User Manual.
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Sup , Darkstar !

That helped me out with my (now sustainable ) Kontakt multi out setup (mix of mono & stereo outs for my own sampled drumkit) .

Great tuto
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Hi, I've had the tutorial thread as an open tab on my phone ever since I discovered it.

I'm just reading the particulars now, and I just wanted to ask -

Lots of the why (from what I've read) was to reduce GUI clutter... And the NOW (re how SXS can allow routing templates with hidden tracks that, if unused @ mixdown are removed...)

1) when (if ever) do you NEED to employ this advanced technique / these techniques (there are several scenarios covered here, depending on what ya using, n what ya wanna do)

2) what are the cost implications (in laymans terms?

I read something about PDC + feedback routing, but I'm
Not sure on what they are + what they affect, and even if I NEED to try and do and of this, ie with modern reaper technology + me still being in MIDI 101

References truly welcome videos especially !

Thank you to all contributors
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Where is the rest of this thread?

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Old 08-08-2015, 12:58 PM   #68
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I realize this is an old thread, but hope this post will be seen by somebody - anybody...AAAAaaaahhhhhyyy! Well, okay, somebody who knows what he/she is doing with MIDI.

Prior to 3 or 4 weeks ago, my entire MIDI experience consisted of running a MIDI cable out from a Yamaha 76-key some-thing-or-other, and sending the signal to a Roland VK-8M - a Hammond B3 emulator. The VK-8M then puts out an analog signal, and I am happy as a clam.

MIDI originally came along a couple years after I had gotten out of the music and recording business. Yes, I am old enough to be a geezer. Don't 'ya just love Photoshop?

But wait! Several weeks ago I bought EZ Drummer 2, plus three EZX modules, so now I get to plug my Yamaha something-or-other keyboard into the MIDI input on one of my interfaces.

To my amazement, this works wonderfully well! Yeah - I can even play various drum sounds from various keys. Who would have thunk it?

Next I download the free version of Kontakt (3.5 I believe) and it makes sounds from me pushing keys on the something-or-other. Whoooo hoooo!

Then I download HOPI's Multichannel VSTi how-to .pdf. What a lot of work from Hopi. Thanks Hopi. And I download the suggested Sampletank and sounds.

I have gone through the process in Hoipi's PDF some 7 or 8 times now without making it work! I think that is the definition of insanity - doing the same thing while expecting different results. Well, I've never claimed to be completely sane - nor have many of my friends. But my day to day friends know nothing about MIDI - they think it must be some new kind of food.

So that you can see what I am doing, I made a PDF file of my progress - complete with pictures - almost like a comic book. It has too many images to waste space and bandwidth here at cockos' forum, so I put it here...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/darkstar2pa...fusion+PDF.pdf

So what am I missing? Shhh - be nice.

Thanks,

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Old 08-09-2015, 01:18 AM   #69
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(a) on page 2, I do not think you need the MIDI Output enabled,
(b) on page 5/6, the MIDI device needs to be selected for track 2, not track 1,
(c) on page 10, you might wish to alter the Outputs for the Drawbars and Flute instruments as they are currently going to channels 3+4 on the ST3 track (which, currently, are not going anywhere),
(d) on page 11, the ST3 track does not need to be RecArmed,
(e) on page 15, the audio track is shown as receiving from "stereo mix" which may well be another input coming back from the 828?
(f) on page 16, the Drawbars instrument is set to be played by MIDI on MIDI channel 02 and the Flute by MIDI on MIDI channel 03. The ST3 keyboard plays whichever instrument is selected in the Instrument Rack, and your keyboards are set to send MIDI on MIDI channel 01, triggering the J Bass.

Your pic on page 17 shows a better set up; here is what you need for ST3:

>>> https://i.imgur.com/ug1eL9E.png
-- track 2 Records the MIDI from the keyboard and Sends it to track 1
-- track 1 has ST3 which creates the audio, and Sends it to track 3,
-- track 3 Records the audio Output.

As in:
>>> https://i.imgur.com/C1km8mU.png

Multiple instruments on multiple channels comes later.
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Old 08-09-2015, 12:52 PM   #70
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Thank you, thank you, thank you Darkstar for taking the time to read through my tome of MIDI-newbie-woe.

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(a) on page 2, I do not think you need the MIDI Output enabled,
(b) on page 5/6, the MIDI device needs to be selected for track 2, not track 1,
(c) on page 10, you might wish to alter the Outputs for the Drawbars and Flute instruments as they are currently going to channels 3+4 on the ST3 track (which, currently, are not going anywhere),
(d) on page 11, the ST3 track does not need to be RecArmed,...

Multiple instruments on multiple channels comes later.
This "(b) on page 5/6, the MIDI device needs to be selected for track 2, not track 1," did the trick. It made everything work for the first instrument.

Even the multi-instruments work now too. They needed the MIDI in selected too on their MIDI tracks.

I went back through HOPI's PDF, and do not see anything about setting track 2 to have MIDI-All in the input. It's just not there.

He does say to ARM the ST VSTi track. I don't know why.

Thanks again. Now to go do with with Kontakt 5.

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Old 08-10-2015, 04:40 PM   #71
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Thank you again, because of your routing suggestions, I figured out how to do something else (that everyone else besides me knows about) with Sampletank today. (Kontakt will have to wait.)

I let the Yamaha keyboard send an analog piano signal to Reaper, and recorded it as a .wav track. And I had it send MIDI data to Reaper to record a MIDI track at the same time.

Then I loaded Sampletank onto a VSTi track, loaded an organ sample into Sampletank, and created another audio track in Reaper to record the organ sound.

Whooo hooo. Your routing worked again, and Reaper recorded an organ .wav track.

So maybe now it is time to always record a MIDI track whenever I use that Yamaha on a song. I can then later have the keyboard parts become trumpets, violins, glockenspiels, or a trio of didgeridoos. Oooo perhaps even a humpenscrump or its cousin the hurdy-gurdy.

Hmmm are there really samples of those things?

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So maybe now it is time to always record a MIDI track whenever I use that Yamaha on a song. I can then later have the keyboard parts become trumpets, violins, glockenspiels, or a trio of didgeridoos. Oooo perhaps even a humpenscrump or its cousin the hurdy-gurdy.

Hmmm are there really samples of those things?
Hi Don, Oh yes, I don't think there's any instrument that hasn't been sampled.

So you have Kontakt?
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Old 08-11-2015, 10:18 AM   #73
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Hi Tod,

Yes, I have the Kontakt player and the Sample Tank player (the free ones), along with some samples for each while I try to figure out how this all works.

I left the music business right before the advent of MIDI, and even stopped playing any music for a couple of decades. When I started playing again, now for my own fun rather than as a profession, it all came back to my hands quickly. Muscle memory is a wonderful thing!

But MIDI, oh my. Surprisingly most of my issues with it have to do with understanding definitions of the terms, and with figuring out the routing in Reaper. And I've been playing with Sample Tank more than Kontakt at this point. But Kontakt is next.

Kontakt's samples seem a little better sounding, and more extensive than ST, so of course it is more expensive to buy the whole enchilada.

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This may help fill in some gaps:

>>> https://i.imgur.com/AZmF0iO.png
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