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LoopBe1 or other Virtual Midi Drivers for PC

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Just wondering if anyone here has had any experience with this or any other virtual Midi drivers

As I want to hook an S4 to a Machine and maybe Live all on one laptop - or am I being over ambitious

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Should be possible as long as you can generate the MIDI.

I used MIDIOX and MIDI Yoke to be able to use an editor and ableton simultaneously with my AN200 and TX81Z. Worked really well after I got it set up. You can get them both here:

http://www.midiox.com/

It's been a while since I used it but MIDI Yoke shows up as a MIDI devices and you use MIDIOX to split and route however you like.

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Aaand on me Mac not long ago I used MIDI Pipe which is flipping amazing. I configured it to intercept NRPN from the Korg ER1, convert to MIDI CC, and send to the Airbase.

It effectively turned the ER1 into a control surface and sequencer for the Airbase, which was well cool until I realized I was using a whole MacBook to convert NRPN to MIDI, so I just went back to sequencing with Ableton :-)

http://web.mac.com/nicowald/SubtleSoft/MidiPipe.html

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Well I aint got a mac but the other link looks intersting - basically for the start i just want to send midi clock data from Trakctor to the maschine then expand from that with Live sending midi notes to a synth

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It seems like it should be easy enough. I can see in the pics that Maschine has MIDI I/O sockets around the back for anything external. It might have MIDI available over the USB too.

You should be able to do everything without using midiox and midi yoke. The only reason I had to use it was so I could have 2 applications share the same MIDI device, because the interface I had could only handle one program accessing it at a time (either Ableton or the editor).

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Yeah can it not be done over USB?
I used midiyoke before to control ableton and cubase wirelessly from my iphone.
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sam wrote:Should be possible as long as you can generate the MIDI.

I used MIDIOX and MIDI Yoke to be able to use an editor and ableton simultaneously with my AN200 and TX81Z. Worked really well after I got it set up. You can get them both here:

http://www.midiox.com/

It's been a while since I used it but MIDI Yoke shows up as a MIDI devices and you use MIDIOX to split and route however you like.

Interesting what you say here Sam, I have the tx81z, also there's is an editor for the tx? Nice ;)
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There are a few editors for the tx81z.

ctrlr is really good for all kinds of hardware and you can use it standalone or vst: http://code.google.com/p/ctrlr/downloads/list

This is a good tx specific page where there are other editors that work: http://the-all.org/tx81z/index.html

I really like my tx but don't use it enough. This is a little jam from a while ago with some tx81z action :-)



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