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tonAP · Post by **tonAP** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:01 pm

Hi there

Doesn't MU.LAB allows "capture keyboard" for MIDI input? That would be nice e.g. writing on the fly with notebook

All the best and happy 2k8
Antonio
P.S.
Sorry if it has been already covered: I didn't find it on the motools site's FAQ

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:52 am

No it's not yet in there. Nice feature though, i agree.

I think there exists a (midi/vst) utility that does this...

Anyone knows more?

Calum · Post by **Calum** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:53 pm

muzycian wrote:No it's not yet in there. Nice feature though, i agree.

I think there exists a (midi/vst) utility that does this...

Anyone knows more?

For Macs there is:

Virtual Midi Keyboard (also for PC)

http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/pages/code-apps.html

and

MidiKeys

http://www.manyetas.com/creed/midikeys.html

It would be nice to have something like this built into Mulab though.

DaveL60 · Post by **DaveL60** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:08 pm

For 32-bit Windows (i.e., Win95 and upward), there's MIDIOX. I've not played with it, but I think is provides the kind of capability that Antonio is looking for.

DaveL

tonAP · Post by **tonAP** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:36 pm

Hi all

I thought i wasn't a total-noob

about this stuff, so midi joke, maple, midi-ox etc. are already known here. BUT:

muzycian wrote:No it's not yet in there. Nice feature though, i agree.

Well "NOT YET": so it could also be on a future release (?)

muzycian wrote:I think there exists a (midi/vst) utility that does this...
Anyone knows more?

The only (google) vst-midi-keyboard-thinghy (aka no midi-loop) i've found is MKey VST:
http://www.adbe.org/freebies/plugins/mkey.html
Looks perfect... but it doesn't work! At least i didn't find a way... anyone about it?

Thanx!

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:57 pm

tonAP wrote:The only (google) vst-midi-keyboard-thinghy (aka no midi-loop) i've found is MKey VST:
http://www.adbe.org/freebies/plugins/mkey.html
Looks perfect... but it doesn't work! At least i didn't find a way... anyone about it?

It indeed doesn't work because it generates the vst events in the GUI thread and that is not yet supported by MU.LAB. For the same reason Tobybear's QuickKeys doesn't work either.

The next MU.LAB version will support these plugins, and the generated events will go to the focussed target.

Conclusion:

Plugins that generate midi events are processed in two different ways, depending on whether the events are generated in the realtime process thread or in the UI thread.

In the first case, the events are put in the event output of that vst plugin, and thus are processed by any plugin further to the output.

In the second case, the events are sent to the focussed target.

tonAP · Post by **tonAP** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:48 pm

Ok: it's a clear explanation, more than enough... I'll be looking for the next.
Just it would be better not a plug but a mulab's option.

tonAP · Post by **tonAP** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:27 pm

muzycian wrote:The next MU.LAB version will support these plugins, and the generated events will go to the focussed target.

Thanks! now (1.1) it works just fine

rgv · Post by **rgv** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:09 pm

tonAP wrote:
muzycian wrote:The next MU.LAB version will support these plugins, and the generated events will go to the focussed target.
Thanks! now (1.1) it works just fine

Could someone walk me through this? I have not been able to get this to work. Which vst/midi/keyboard plugin is working for you?

(I am running 1.1)

Thanks,

r.

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