I've finally downloaded all the demo videos of the VI Player and yep... I want it too. But uh, everything there seems to be geared toward people who are going to be doing live performances. Everything is done live from a MIDI Keyboard. True this is awsome for them, but what about those people with pre-made midi files. I can not find 1 tutorial/video of the VI Player working with a sequencer.
So, my questions:
1) Will the VI Player's universal mode work with a pre-recorded MIDI track? So I just play the midi track and it does the automatic cell changing?
2) Can I use a midi controler event to change horiz. vertical. cells myself
IE. Say I have a simple 1/4 note scale violin solo ascending cresc. legato and the Descent ff 1/16 note staccato with the final two notes marcato. Can I setup 3 horizontal cells (legato,staccato,marcato) in the VI Player, assign a midi controler in the VI Player to change horizontal cells and then insert the midi event in my Sequencer in the correct places to switch styles.
3) I know the VI Player standalone will not allow you to open multiple instances but will it have native support for multiple instances within a sequencer? So on a good machine I could have 4 instances Violin,Viola,Cello,Doublebass in my sequencer together.
I've heard some about VSTi... but I'm still researching what VST is in the first place... and have no clue what VSTi is either [:D] Trying to sort through posts on the matter.
4) Can you run universal mode together with custom cells without them interfering with each other. Example, say you load the Violin universal performance patch. VI starts playing a midi track adjusting which cell is active (assuming the answer to my first question is yes). Now it gets to a passage where, on the score, you have two 1/4 notes played slured legato and two 1/4 notes played portemento. Midi wise, the notes are all the same length so the VI Player can't know to play the two portemento. (now my question)
Can I use a midi controler event to "exit" universal mode and jump to the cell with the solo violin portemento followed by another midi event to re-enter the universal cells?
Well... that'll do for now. The more I think about it and read the more questions I'll come up with. So thanks for all the help [:)]
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5) When you optimize RAM usage in the VI Player, is there a way to save the results? So I can close the program, re-open to listen to the same track again with optimized RAM or will I have to re-optimize each time I open the VI player?
So, my questions:
1) Will the VI Player's universal mode work with a pre-recorded MIDI track? So I just play the midi track and it does the automatic cell changing?
2) Can I use a midi controler event to change horiz. vertical. cells myself
IE. Say I have a simple 1/4 note scale violin solo ascending cresc. legato and the Descent ff 1/16 note staccato with the final two notes marcato. Can I setup 3 horizontal cells (legato,staccato,marcato) in the VI Player, assign a midi controler in the VI Player to change horizontal cells and then insert the midi event in my Sequencer in the correct places to switch styles.
3) I know the VI Player standalone will not allow you to open multiple instances but will it have native support for multiple instances within a sequencer? So on a good machine I could have 4 instances Violin,Viola,Cello,Doublebass in my sequencer together.
I've heard some about VSTi... but I'm still researching what VST is in the first place... and have no clue what VSTi is either [:D] Trying to sort through posts on the matter.
4) Can you run universal mode together with custom cells without them interfering with each other. Example, say you load the Violin universal performance patch. VI starts playing a midi track adjusting which cell is active (assuming the answer to my first question is yes). Now it gets to a passage where, on the score, you have two 1/4 notes played slured legato and two 1/4 notes played portemento. Midi wise, the notes are all the same length so the VI Player can't know to play the two portemento. (now my question)
Can I use a midi controler event to "exit" universal mode and jump to the cell with the solo violin portemento followed by another midi event to re-enter the universal cells?
Well... that'll do for now. The more I think about it and read the more questions I'll come up with. So thanks for all the help [:)]
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5) When you optimize RAM usage in the VI Player, is there a way to save the results? So I can close the program, re-open to listen to the same track again with optimized RAM or will I have to re-optimize each time I open the VI player?