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