Author |
Topic: Using a mid file player and Ox at same time? (Read 1277 times) |
|
6StringSlinger51
New Member
MIDI-OX Rules!
Gender: 
Posts: 3
|
 |
Using a mid file player and Ox at same time?
« on: Sep 20th, 2008, 5:53pm » |
 Quote  Modify
|
I have a midi file player that I use live on gigs (Van Basco's) that works well...playlists, etc. I'm thinking of switching to a different tone module but don't want to have to convert all my files to make all the sounds correct. Can I run a MIDI Ox map and my midi file player at the same time on one laptop? I've experimented a bit at home but if I open both apps I get an error message. I imagine both programs are trying to use my MIDI cable interface and can't. Any ideas? Thanks!
|
|
 IP Logged |
Six String Slinger
|
|
|
Peter L Jones
Expert
Hit it
Gender:
Posts: 978
|
|
Re: Using a mid file player and Ox at same time?
« Reply #1 on: Sep 20th, 2008, 6:40pm » |
Quote Modify
|
It sounds like you want:
[MIDI File Player] -> [MIDI OX] -> [MIDI Module]
so that MIDI OX gets to do some work on the output of the player before it hits the module.
It sounds like you're trying:
[MIDI File Player]-\_ [MIDI Module]
[MIDI OX]--------/
with both applications trying to write to the module at the same time (and MIDI OX not seeing the player's output, either!).
So... Realise that the second is wrong  and let's see how to do the first.
If "MIDI File Player" and "MIDI OX" were hardware boxes, you'd run a cable from one to the other. But they're software! So what do you do? Well, you run a software cable between them.
It's called MIDI Yoke, it's on the front page of the site.
In the MIDI File Player, you open an output like "Out to MIDI Yoke 1". In MIDI OX, you open an input like "In from MIDI Yoke 1". In MIDI OX, you open an output for the module. (If it's also software, you'll need another MIDI Yoke software cable.)
|
|
IP Logged |
"...Playing fast around the drums is one thing. But to play with people for others, to listen to, that's something else. That's a whole other world." -- Tony Williams
|
|
|
6StringSlinger51
New Member
MIDI-OX Rules!
Gender:
Posts: 3
|
|
Re: Using a mid file player and Ox at same time?
« Reply #2 on: Sep 21st, 2008, 2:09am » |
Quote Modify
|
THANKS! I'll give it a shot and let you know the results.
Much appreciated.
GS
|
|
IP Logged |
Six String Slinger
|
|
|
6StringSlinger51
New Member
MIDI-OX Rules!
Gender:
Posts: 3
|
|
Re: Using a mid file player and Ox at same time?
« Reply #3 on: Sep 22nd, 2008, 7:22pm » |
Quote Modify
|
Peter:
It worked PERFECTLY. Thank you again! 
|
|
IP Logged |
Six String Slinger
|
|
|
|
User Forum ::
Powered by YaBB
Home 
Help 
Search 
Members 
Login 
Register
Reply
Notify of replies
Send Topic
Print