Midi Virtuoso produces Midi output. In order to route Midi Virtuoso’s output into a DAW to Play / Record a track(s), you need a virtual midi cable. In the following, we illustrate connecting LoopBe1 (
http://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html). This virtual cable is a small download and a simple install. It is extremely low latency. There are a number of other Virtual Midi Cables available for download. For example, Maple Virtual Midi Cable http://www.hurchalla.com/Maple_driver.html.Once installed, make sure that Midi Virtuoso is not running. Open you DAW (the following example uses Cakewalk Sonar).
Once in your DAW software, open the dialog for setting Midi Drivers (in Sonar select Options - Midi Devices):
In the dialog, make sure that the virtual cable port (LoopBe1 Internal Midi in the example) is selected as an input driver.
Make sure that the input drivers for any peripheral Midi Instruments or Controllers you want to use to play Midi Virtuoso sequences into the DAW during your session are not selected. For example, my Oxygen midi controller uses the input device named USB Audio Device and my 88-key digital piano is cables to my soundcard, the Delta AP MIDI port, so both of these are unselected to leave them free for use in Midi Virtuoso.
Now, open your DAW’s audio settings and ensure that your latencies are as low as possible or practical given your computer’s resources (anything above about 15 ms will create a noticeable delay while you play):
Now you are ready to use Midi Virtuoso to input to a track.
Open Midi Virtuoso. Open a project or create a new part(s) in a new project that you would like to play as input to your DAW track. Open the Midi à Output option from the Midi Virtuoso main menu and select the virtual midi cable’s input port (LoopBe Internal MIDI in the example):
Now, in a Midi track in your DAW that you want to play through and / or record into, select the virtual port as your input (LoopBe1 Internal Midi – Omni in the example):
Now, we have set Midi Virtuoso to output Midi to the virtual cable’s output port and we’ve set a track in our DAW to get its input from the corresponding virtual cable input port.
Now, insert or set a soft synth as the output of the track in the DAW:
Set the soft synth to produce the desired sound or sample by working with the settings in its interface.
Now, set Midi Virtuoso to Play mode. Try the trill pane feature. Try playing the Every Key feature with the keyboard. Select an input driver (Midi -à Input from the main menu) that will connect a midi keyboard or other external controller and try playing the Every Key feature.
You can now record tracks into your DAW-based projects that sound like a virtuoso player!