is there any VST-FX who can send out midi notes ???

illtechnique · Post by **illtechnique** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 5:44 pm

i want to run live as a master app and send out some sequenced notes to some hardware synths. is there any vst-effect who can handle this ???

thx!

Mbazzy · Post by **Mbazzy** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 6:50 pm

If I'm well informed/remember well , this kind of MIDI information is managed/transmitted by the host not by the vst ... so I think this won't be possible ... but I can be wrong ...

illtechnique · Post by **illtechnique** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 7:52 pm

ah i see ...

shit..

seems that i have to look for a hardware sequencer..

thx anyway!!!

Mbazzy · Post by **Mbazzy** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 8:35 pm

Think this boils down to 2 'heavy' discussiontopics here :

1/ VSTI hosting
2/ midi (clips) implementation ...

What you could try/do is rewire and sync eg Reason to Live for this purpose.

I touched this subject with the people from xlutop who make the Chainer vst(i) host - this is a copy/paste from this email exchange (the original question is at the bottom):

The midi settings only take effect in the standalone version of Chainer, not
in the VST versions. It's up to the VST host (Live) to send midi events to a
VST plugin (Chainer VST). But apparently Live doesn't send midi events to
VST plugins so you cannot play the VST instruments you load into Chainer
VST.

To deal with this Live limitation I could allow to select a midi in device
in the VST version of Chainer. Then you could control the VST instruments
loaded in Chainer VST with a connected midi keyboard in Live. But it's
unusual to reserve a midi device from within a VST plugin.Usually it's the
job of the host application to reserve the device and to send midi events to
the plugin. But I'll think about it - perhaps I will add this feature in the
future.

Regards,

Thomas Potulski

----- Original Message -----
From: Sad End projects <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:23 PM
Subject: Ableton Live+Chainer

Well when loading chainer into Live (that doesn't support VSTI itself ,only
VST EFX, , I could load vst(i) through chainer , and those with a virtual
keyboard like quadrasid/junglist/... I can get to play with mouseclick.
However I haven't been able to sequence any vsti. Don't know if this is a
limitation of Live or from Chainer demo. In the standlone version you can
choose your midisettings etc and save it as a preset .... I just wonder if
you load this 'preset' while chainer loaded in Live , if then th vsti would
be able to be midi controlled

TIA