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  • Setting Up Marble tools and VSL Performance

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    I just thought I'd share my setup with Jeffs Marble Tools, Giga, Sequencer and VSL Performance Tools for anyone running the performance set on 1 computer with Giga and sequencer. I couldn't record or play audio until Ashif finally got my setup working on Win 2k.

    A big thanks goes out to King Idiot (Ashif) for helping me with this issue and helping me understanding more about midi.

    1. After you download Marble Tools, go to 'Options'-midi settings-and choose 'Open Inputs from Midi Interface hardware.'

    2. Open Giga and choose midi ins to 'none' like the VSL manual says then apply.

    3. Next, open Performance Tools and set midi ins to Maple port 1 and midi outs to Nemesys port 1.

    4. Open sequencer seperately from giga now. Go to your midi settings and choose midi ins as your soundcard (ex: Delta 1010) and midi outs to Maple Out port 1.

    5. Load up a legato performance violin patch and load up the legato performace utility. You should be able to play and record midi in your sequencer.

    If by chance you have an error that reads 'Port 1 not available', go to the VSL performance utility and reset midi ins to 'none' then close up all programs and reboot. For some reason, Windows has problems when first doing this so you will need to restart.

    Follow the same steps as above, bypassing step 1, and you shouldn't get this error again. Also your sequencer midi settings and Giga midi settings will not need to be redone again. basically you just want to assign the performance tool midi ins to Maple port 1 again so you don't get the error message.

    Hope this helps for some. [[;)]]
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    a Few Things of notefor users

    I doubt you need to set the options in MarbleTools to anything if you aren't going to use the marble tools themselves (but you will use the maple midi drivers), Jeff can elaborate.


    Also I doubt you need to start your sequencer "outside" of giga.

    the whole "port not available" thing was specific to Damons machine needing a reboot. It had to do with Sonar not "freeing up" maple port 1 for some reason. Generally when that happens, reboot [:)]

    One thing to understand with the midi drivers like hubi's, midi yoke, and the maple drivers, is that they are to be used as "virtual midi cables/ports" for routing purposes.

    when you use the performance tool on the same computer you want the routing to look like this (using a keyboard as a MIDI controller)

    keyboard----sequencer----Virtual MIDI port/router----performance tool-----Giga

    you want this routing because the perf tool acts as a sort of "midi plug in" if you will. So imagine what would happen if you put the perf tool before the sequencer.....you would record all the "effects" the perf tool does. Not really what you want when working with a sequencer.

    the reason you want to open certain apps in a specific order is that sequencers tend to "steal" all available ports unless you tell it not to.
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    I run my sequencer and GStudio on one PC under Win ME. Which is the most reliable solution for Performance Tool/Sonar/GStudio MIDI routing - MidiYoke or MarbleTools?

    Thanks,

    Craig
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    on ME? Since that is still the older windows setup you can run quite a few

    I use Hubi's loopback on my 98 machines. Works fine for me.

    However MIDIYoke or MArbleTools should work fine on this setup.

    Yoke can be problematic on a 2000/nt/xp machine tho. I've read that its still beta, and some people have problems with it and gigastudio.