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Kola
Posted 2008-03-30 4:02 PM (#14194)
Subject: How do I play my VST Instruments?


Hi there.

Can anyone explain to me how I get my VST soft synths (such as Pro 53) to be used and heard. Is there a getting started tutorial anywhere that covers this?
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CS_TBL
Posted 2008-03-30 7:55 PM (#14196 - in reply to #14194)
Subject: Re: How do I play my VST Instruments?



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In revisit: go to the midi page of the revisit-instrument definition (f4), activate 'output', pick a midi channel, like '1', pick a midi driver like 'vst host'.

Then your vst host will receive midi data from revisit on vst-channel 1, all you then do is wire that channel to some of your plugins.
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chrisnash
Posted 2008-05-13 9:57 PM (#14257 - in reply to #14196)
Subject: Re: How do I play my VST Instruments?



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Also, in hosts which don't support the VST Host MIDI link, you can use a MIDI loopback driver (like LoopBe1). Select it as an output in reViSiT, and as an input in the host...

Chris
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Sparky
Posted 2008-08-29 10:23 AM (#14342 - in reply to #14194)
Subject: RE: How do I play my VST Instruments?


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Hi. I've just managed to get ReViSiT working with Cubase SX3. It was simply enough to set up. The confusing thing for me is that Cubase only plays the Revisit output when I click back on Cubase. It seems as though when Cubase doesn't have focus (ie. when Revisit does), you can't hear anything.

Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks
Sparky
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Sparky
Posted 2008-08-29 10:27 AM (#14343 - in reply to #14342)
Subject: Re: How do I play my VST Instruments?


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Yeah, I JUST figured it out. You need to have the Midi track set to 'monitor'. If you don't, you don't hear anything.
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chrisnash
Posted 2008-08-29 12:54 PM (#14347 - in reply to #14343)
Subject: Re: How do I play my VST Instruments?



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Hi Sparks,

Glad you got it going. I'm currently working on the documentation, which will have a section on hosts and will even use Cubase SX as a specific example.

All the best,
Chris
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mos6502
Posted 2009-03-14 4:11 PM (#14559 - in reply to #14194)
Subject: RE: How do I play my VST Instruments?


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Something I've discovered regarding VST instrument control in Cakewalk Sonar: if you want reViSiT to show up as a MIDI input option for your VST instruments (to send MIDI data without a loopback driver), then make sure when when adding reViSiT into the softsynth rack you've selected "Enable MIDI Output" in the "Insert Soft Synth Options" dialog that initially appears*. Alternatively, you can right-click on the synth and enable MIDI output also.

*this is not enabled by default.

Maybe this info is out there somewhere, or is considered common sense, but this one little point got me stuck for some time so I feel it's worth mentioning :-)



Edited by mos6502 2009-03-14 4:12 PM
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