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Post by freeway on Oct 11, 2011 11:02:52 GMT
Hi Guys  I see a few of our members are using Mixcraft I'm thinking of maybe changing from Cakewalk got myself the 5 ver. it seems to be very user friendly and has an mp3 encoder as well....I'm all set up but just cant seem to get my Yamaha sequences to play . I see the midi driver(Portatone) listed in midi inputs but it dont give me the option to change the output to Portatone  they only playback the accoustica sounds ......seems like theres no communication between the two . This worked fine in CW any ideas guys TIA Barry  |
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Post by Tiny on Oct 11, 2011 12:05:05 GMT
Hi Barry Open Mixcraft 5 Go To File (Top Left) Look For preffrence,s Click on This..... On The Left Plane You Will See Midi (Click on This) Top Input Device Click on Your Input ie Yammie Next Default Virt...Instrument Choose your Yammie Driver Next Default General Midi Instrument Choose your Yammie Driver Hope This Help,s m8...........Tom  |
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Post by freeway on Oct 11, 2011 12:28:03 GMT
Thanx for the quick reply Tommy.... Unfor there's no yammie driver listed in either the vst default or midi default and I know the drivers installed as it works fine with cakewalk..any other ideas ?? Barry |
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Post by Tiny on Oct 11, 2011 14:27:52 GMT
Ok Barry
Go Through Same set up as be-fore only This time Go To Preff,s
Effect,s........ Bottom Tab Re-Scan all Vst efect,s See If This Find,s
Your Driver,s
If Not Let,s Know ...Tom
BTW Barry Forgot to mention Make sure your Key-Board is set
To Pc Midi If Not sure check Your Manual ..Am Tryin m8 ;D
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Post by Tiny on Oct 11, 2011 18:27:22 GMT
Hi Barry
If What i Put on Post Doesn,t Help Oo,r M8. John(Levi)
Will Prolly Have more idea as He,s A Whizz Kid with Midi ;D ;D
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Post by levi2 on Oct 11, 2011 18:39:48 GMT
How about load your midifile in go to the 1st track and click on the piano left hand side
when window opens click show details where it says synth on the left side under new preset you should have a sound driver vst ie hyper canvas or acoustica inst click on that a pull down menu will appear at the bottom it should say external devices if you keyboard is there select it
if it works youll have to do it for every track hope that helps and works
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Post by freeway on Oct 11, 2011 19:41:53 GMT
Hi Tom ...no luck with that unfor  John that works when I individually click on portatone as my sound driver.......but as you say gotta do that for every track that's gonna be be very time consuming with a couple of hundred midis is there any way round this that you know of. ?......otherwise I might be better sticking to Cakewalk if I can get the mp3 encoder working . thanx guys Barry |
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Post by levi2 on Oct 11, 2011 20:24:15 GMT
are you just wanting it to record or edit midi aswell if u just want to record use van basco or another midi player just go to devices and select your driver
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Post by freeway on Oct 11, 2011 21:25:42 GMT
Just wanna convert my midis to mp3's thats all really thru my Yamaha ..... thought I might have been able to use Mixcraft just looking for the easiest way to do it prob stick to cakewalk at this stage .....thanks for the help guys .... Barry |
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Post by levi2 on Oct 12, 2011 4:01:07 GMT
Barry was reading the other thread about ipods you say you have tracks on minidisc why dont you link your minidisk to your pc and record em back to the pc and save as a mp3 the sound quality will depend on your sound card if its a laptop might not be as good. Anyway you wont need mixcraft to do that just use a free prog called audacity and set it to its best recording settings and save as mp3 with highest mps sertting my mp3s are saved at 320 kb and each mp3 file ranges from 6meg to 10 meg but with sdcards/usbs sticks being 8 16 or 32 gig that shouldnt be a problem
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Post by freeway on Oct 12, 2011 9:09:30 GMT
Ya whichever way its gonna be a long proccess eh......ya got my MD rigged up to my pc ok its just the midis I got on my pc prob gonna have to record them in and convert with cw.....thought I might have been able to just load midi and save as mp3 in Mixcraft without having the need to record in and change the settings for each track...anyway no worries thanx for all the help Barry |
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Post by Tiny on Oct 12, 2011 13:22:15 GMT
Hi Barry Another Thing to Try Go To My Computer Double Click on Local Disc C ...Look For Prog... Files, Open Folder If You Look For Your Portatone Folder ..Right Click on Folder Copy it .......Then Go Back To Prog File,s Look For Mixcraft 5 Open Folder Look For The Vst Folder in Mixc...5 open This Then Paste it Into The open Folder Then Go Back To The earlier Post ..File/Menu on Left/ Default Midi inst,s /Etc Ect Should Then Show up on midi Preff,s As Portatone This Should Work .....Tom |
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Post by freeway on Oct 12, 2011 16:15:30 GMT
Hi Tom Still no joy unfor ....geez can't understand why it can be done in other sequencers and not MC.....put the quest to the guys over in the MC forum waiting for a response. It'd be great if I could get it working then Id have everything under the one roof play record and burn and instantly convert all my midis . Id def be using it permanently then as its a great little prog .... Cheerz again Ill let ya know if I hear anything back Barry |
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Post by levi2 on Oct 12, 2011 18:09:25 GMT
ok lets start again the portatone is that the sounds coming from ya keyboard if it is you cannot render to midi that way from a external deviceeven if you manage to get mixcraft to select all tracks at once with the keyboard driver it wont render it you will have to record it in real time then save as mp3 the only way you can load a midi then render it to mp3 is to use the vitual sounds ie acoustic inst or roland vsc blah blah barry go to your hotmail account ive emailed you summit
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Post by freeway on Oct 12, 2011 19:01:58 GMT
Didn't get any email yet .... Was thinking as much as I gotta direct midi to mp3 converter but cant use my yammie sounds in that either....looks like its gonna be the slow way or no way eh...... ;D |
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they only playback the accoustica sounds ......seems like theres no communication between the two .
