I’m building a “hardware vst host” machine, that hopefully will behave like a rack mounted sound module.
The midi events are triggered by a number of external hardwares. A homegrown Java program will run on the machine, listen for events from sources such as the network or serial port, and then produce midi events routed to cantabile’s hosted plugins.
From the java (or MidiOx) perspective, I don’t see a midi receiver created by Cantabile that I could send events to. Also hitting the onscreen keyboard in cantabile does not generate midi events (in MidiOx).
I’m probably misunderstanding the system entirely, but basically I want to send midi to cantabile from locally running software, not an external keyboard or other sequencer.
Any words of wisdom appreciated, cheers.
MidiOX and virtual midi cables.
Hi Jay and Welcome!
The first thing to get is loopMIDI so you can get the virtual MIDI cables Peter talked about above.
Before you can route any MIDI you have to set up some MIDI Ports in Tools>Options>MIDI Ports. There you assign your external physical and virtual MIDI Ports to Cantabile Virtual ports for use in the Cantabile Program. Here is an example of one of these ports open for editing. In the edit pop up window the check boxes appear beside each external MIDI Source and are used to connect the external MIDI sources to the Cantabile Virtual port you are creating.
After these assignments are done you can start a new song ang start routing things using C3. Below are some example of Input routes that go to external MIDI devices or a software VSTI.
or a route from the Onscreen keyboard to the loopMIDI out port to connect to MIDI OX or other external MIDI programs.
There is more info on the Main Cantabile site Support (links at top of page) with Videos and an Online Manual. You can find more info there. Hope this gets you going.
Dave
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Crap, I hate wasting people’s time, and I was just clicking over to email to say I found loopMIDI and it’s working like a champ when I saw the email with the replies.
MidiOx I don’t think works for Win7_64? Anyway I couldn’t figure it out if it did, but loopMIDI is exactly what I needed. Thanks again!
MidiOx works without a problem, but I’m not sure if MidiYoke does (that’s MidiOx’ equivalent to loopMIDI). There are some other virtual MIDI cables for Windows x64 (loopBe comes to mind), but with loopMIDI being free and (so far) rock-solid, no need to try anything else…
Cheers,
Torsten
