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(Message started by: CompletelyLost on Aug 10^th, 2006, 3:23pm)

Title: Anyone got a SIMPLE guide to MIDI Yoke/MIDI-Ox?
Post by CompletelyLost on Aug 10^th, 2006, 3:23pm

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!

Title: Re: Anyone got a SIMPLE guide to MIDI Yoke/MIDI-Ox
Post by Peter L Jones on Aug 11^th, 2006, 6:11pm

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.

Title: Re: Anyone got SIMPLE guide to MIDI Yoke/MIDI-Ox?
Post by CompletelyLost on Aug 12^th, 2006, 11:07am

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!

Title: Re: Anyone got SIMPLE guide to MIDI Yoke/MIDI-Ox?
Post by Peter L Jones on Aug 12^th, 2006, 1:42pm

on 08/12/06 at 11:07:42, CompletelyLost wrote:

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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Why would I need MIDI-Ox if MIDI Yoke does what I need?

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...

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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.)

I'm not running Win98 (haven't for years) - it's somewhere in the System control panel thing...