VSampler MIDI Connections

MIDI Preferences

The menu entry Preferences|MIDI opens the basic MIDI preferences of Virtual Sampler. In this dialog window you can activate or deactivate MIDI-filters. Those checkboxes you activated make VSampler reacting to the respective MIDI commands. The following options are available:

 

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  • Bank and Program Change: if enabled VSampler reacts on bank- and program change commands. This allows to change the settings of a multi dynamically.
  • Channel Control Change: if enabled VSampler reacts on control-change commands. Those are the options at the "Controllers" page.
  • System Exclusive: if enabled VSampler reacts on system-exclusive commands (SysEx). This option is reserved for future updates and without function at the moment.
  • Channel Velocity: if enabled VSampler reacts on velocity data.
  • Channel Aftertouch: if enabled VSampler reacts on aftertouch data.
  • Channel Pitch Bend Data: if enabled VSampler reacts on pitchbend data.

By using the Controller-Map you can redirect controller messages to other controllers.

Activating of MIDI Ports

To activate MIDI ports please use the buttons Select MIDI Inputs and Select MIDI Thrus in the VSampler toolbar of the main window. Additionally the MIDI in- and outputs can be activated/deactivated globally. It's possible to simultaneously activate multiple MIDI in- and outputs. If you use sequencer programs simultaneously to VSampler you need to disable those MIDI in- or outputs in VSampler which are in use by the sequencer. The most MIDI drivers don't allow parallel access by multiple MIDI applications. In this case you should use the VSampler MIDI driver (virtual MIDI port - see below).

The MIDI-Activity LED

The upper right corner of the VSampler toolbar shows the number of currently active voices and MIDI activity LED's for the MIDI in- and outputs. Every incoming message from one of the activated MIDI inputs and every outgoing message to one of the activated MIDI Thru's will activate the respective LED.

The VMIDI Port

To connect VSampler with a sequencer program running at the same machine a VMIDI port is necessary. By default the setup program of VSampler installs a VMIDI port driver. It's possible to use every similar program such as Hubi's LoopBack Device, too. The VMIDI port can be installed afterwards via Windows control panel as "Audio, Video or Game-Controller" at every time, the needed driver file is located in the directory /Drv.

To playback VSampler sounds from a sequencer the following conditions must be filled:

For the VSampler's included MIDI port the name of the in- and outputs is "VSampler Internal MIDI".

The VMIDI port included with VSampler doesn't work on Windows 2000 systems at the moment, a solutions is under construction.