[fruityloops] Re: Accessing soundcard's soundbanks via MIDI Out channel

  • From: Andrew Ebling <andyebling@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: fruityloops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: 09 Jan 2003 11:30:47 +0000


On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 11:11, Rui.Barata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Andy
> 
> "Are you sure the MIDI out channel is routed to your sound
> card sysnth and not to the MS GM softsynth?"
> 
> I think so but I will confirm that. Maybe I will need some help in this=
> ....
> I just have to check the FL Midi Out port n=BA and soundcard's XG Synth=
>  Midi
> In port n=BA, and see if they match?

Yes.

> "In fruity 3.x there is no way to feed this audio signal
> back into fruityloops - you just have to rely on the sound card to mix
> the audio output of fruityloops with the sound produced by the on board=
> 
> synth and then record the audio output back to disk..."
> 
> So, in this particular issue and in FL's domain only, I just have to wo=
> rry
> with FL's MIDI Out configuration?

That's correct.


> By the way, in FL's site they say:
> 
> "The MidiOut generator controls all parameters of your external gear or=
> 
> sequencer (through loopback).

I think that info may well be out of date.  I don't have to use any form
of loop back (unless they refer to the internal MIDI routing as
loopback) when I'm working with external MIDI gear.

> By default we provide presets for : Soundblaster live, Acces Virus, EMU=
> 
> Audity 2000, Korg MS 2000, Korg Z1, Line 6 POD 2, Microsoft Synthesizer=
> ,
> PPD Tririum, Rainbow 2, Roland JP-8000 ...
> 
> But you can define your own presets for any midi gear you wanna control=
> ."
> 
> How can I create a preset?

I was looking at this last night.  Basically a preset seems to consist
of setting the various assignable controls on the MIDI out plugin (the
ones above the auditioning keyboard) with appropriate names and to
control particular Control Change (CC) parameters for a particular
synth.  Seems weird to me that there is no way to create your own patch
list so that it shows something sensible and not just GM patch names.

Andy
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