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CompletelyLost
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Anyone got a SIMPLE guide to MIDI Yoke/MIDI-Ox?
« on: Aug 10th, 2006, 3:23pm » |
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Although I have had Yoke and Ox installed for several months and kind of got them working once, the user guide (help file) is as clear as mud to me and I am very frustrated! I just do not understand how to configure these programs. All I want to do is connect an onscreen virtual piano keyboard (MIDI out) to Finale PrintMusic (MIDI In).
- Do I NEED MIDI-Ox?
- How do I configure MIDI Yoke? (It's a low-level driver that doesn't have any menu or interface.)
- Just a simple, step-by-step walk-thru, guys! That's all I ask! I'll even uninstall and reinstall the programs so I can get the original defaults back.
- These programs are, I'm sure, extremely powerful utilities, but they ain't easy to use!
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Peter L Jones
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Re: Anyone got a SIMPLE guide to MIDI Yoke/MIDI-Ox
« Reply #1 on: Aug 11th, 2006, 6:11pm » |
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MIDI OX: Probably not. Ignore it until you need it.
MIDI Yoke: it's just a low level driver, it does have a config panel that lets you choose how many ports you want it to support (on Win9x) but the defaults should be okay.
How to use it:
1) Install
2) In Virtual Piano Keyboard, set the MIDI Out to "Junction 1".
3) In Finale PrintMusic, set the MIDI In to "Junction 1".
It's that's easy.
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Re: Anyone got SIMPLE guide to MIDI Yoke/MIDI-Ox?
« Reply #2 on: Aug 12th, 2006, 11:07am » |
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Ah, thanks for that, Peter! Curiously, it DOES work between the virtual piano and Cakewalk, but Finale PrintMusic fails to respond. That is, I have configured FPM in exactly the way you describe, as I also did in Cakewalk, but whereas Cakewalk starts displaying notes I play, Finale stays stumm. (I didn't have both Finale and Cakewalk loaded at the same time, by the way.)
Why would I need MIDI-Ox if MIDI Yoke does what I need?
Finally, you mentioned some configuration utility for MIDI Yoke. Where is it? MIDI Yoke got installed, then seemed to disappear! I don't have any mention of it in my menu structure or on the desktop. However, I have now proved that it does work! (With Cakewalk, at least.)
Anyone know why Finale does not respond to MIDI input via MIDI Yoke?
Cheers!
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Re: Anyone got SIMPLE guide to MIDI Yoke/MIDI-Ox?
« Reply #3 on: Aug 12th, 2006, 1:42pm » |
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on Aug 12th, 2006, 11:07am, CompletelyLost wrote:Ah, thanks for that, Peter! Curiously, it DOES work between the virtual piano and Cakewalk, but Finale PrintMusic fails to respond. That is, I have configured FPM in exactly the way you describe, as I also did in Cakewalk, but whereas Cakewalk starts displaying notes I play, Finale stays stumm. (I didn't have both Finale and Cakewalk loaded at the same time, by the way.)
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Anyone know why Finale does not respond to MIDI input via MIDI Yoke? |
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One possible problem is that Finale isn't listening on all MIDI channels and you're not sending data on the channel it's listening on.
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MIDI Yoke only acts as a virtual MIDI cable. MIDI OX lets you do other stuff... like see what MIDI channel messages are being transmitted on...
Quote:| Finally, you mentioned some configuration utility for MIDI Yoke. Where is it? MIDI Yoke got installed, then seemed to disappear! I don't have any mention of it in my menu structure or on the desktop. However, I have now proved that it does work! (With Cakewalk, at least.) |
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I'm not running Win98 (haven't for years) - it's somewhere in the System control panel thing...
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