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Hi Dan

Can you send me the latest update please.

Jules

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Hi Dan
Could you send me the latest version of Varranger please.

Thanks

Jules

Hello

I cant work out how to do this so would appreciate any help.  I use PianoTeq VST, and works fine for the instrument assigned to it and can be played through my master keyboard.  But I want to control its other functions such as changing to another preset, via another midi controller, but the VST does not see any other midi input.

Any ideas?

Jules

Hi Dan

The VST pianoteq plugin does have parameters - and they can be set in Varranger as you said. 

However the functions in the VST I want to change, (so I can change between pianos) are not included as parameters - but can be assigned a midi cc in the VST.  However it only seems to go via midi in 1.  So if your buttons are on a controller in midi in 2, it does not see them.

Does that make sense?

Hello

I have the pianoteq VST that recognises the midi input 1 device, but not the midi input two going through Varranger.  I updated my second keyboard to an Alesis VI61 - and want to control the VST with its buttons, but play it on my midi input 1 piano.  Is there anyway to send both midi input port from Varranger to the VST so it can pick them both up?.

Any help would be appreciated

Jules

Thanks Dan that's great news

Hi Dan

I have a nanokontrol, a piano and an axiom keyboard - 3 midi inputs - usb's.  But now I have a MidiExpressions quadro pedal controller.  Any way to add a 4th midi input to varranger - or is there any other software to handle all this so I can have access to all of this in Varranger?

Jules

Hi Dan

Could you send me the update, when you get a chance please.

Oh before I forget, if you have not done so try the PianoTeq 5 demo as a VST -

https://www.pianoteq.com/home

its awesome - and its even better fed through Varranger.  Especially when you have 3 right hand instruments linked on a  +1, 0, -1 octave setup.

Jules

Hi Guys

Thanks for the info.  Santa is getting me a SD1000 for xmas now!

Jules

Hi Guys

I am deciding to buy a Ketron module but difficult to decide.
SD2 seems to been very well settled in Varranger and stable, whereas the SD1000 is newer, more powerful,  but seems to have had a lot of problems.

Are the SD1000s problems all sorted now?
Is the SD1000 as well integrated into Varranger as the SD2?
and is it worth the extra 100 euro?

Any help would be great.  Thanks  Jules

Thanks for the help guys.  Much appreciated

Jules

Hello

How do I set Varranger so that I can play the melody on 1 keyboard, and the style on another?  Using an Axiom 61 for the melody side and a piano going through a midisport 4X4 for the which I want to use for the style.  I cant figure it out, and tried for ages!.  Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Kind regards

Jules

Hi Dan

As a Korg man, could you send me the update please.

Jules

Sorry for delay - work!

Yeah I have the MULTI on.

Jules

HI Dan

Yep in GM Mode.  Double checked.

I had a little experiments with the X5D yesterday.  When I select and instruments from INS it does not seem to distiguish the banks (with the Midi set GM mode).  So selecting bank B instrument 1 gives me the GM piano sound (1).  In a similar fashion selecting the drums bank, I only get to hear GM bank sounds.

So can't select the instruments banks.  Any ideas?

Thanks

Jules

Hi Dan

Got the INS file going, that makes life a lot easier, thanks for that. 
The Tyros 5, Latin "OrganBossa" is an example of a PERC style that causes me problems.  This happens in most styles with a PERC track not just that one, seems to want to act as a normal instrument rather than a "DRUM" track - if you set it as a standard GM DRUM it makes a PIANO sound.  So assigning the X5s Perc Drum Kit to it - had no effect.  Can PERC "SOUND 9" be set as another drum track? - would it have to go down the drum midi channel (10)?

Thanks for all your help

Jules

Hi Dan

Your software is brilliant, exactly what I needed.  I have a Korg X5D module but its drums (percussion to be specific) are off when playing styles.  Would an .INI file sort it out? and if so do you know where I can get one for it (its a rack mount version of an X5 synth), and how would I install it into Varranger - I looked but could not figure it out.

Thanks

Jules

Hi Dan

I think registrations (in yamaha terms) are the parameters/settings for the instrument (the OTS (one touch settings).

So on a real tyros loading a registration file would select the style and the instruments that would compliment it to play the lead and set correct tempos and alike.  Does that make sense?

I found this which I found a bit tricky to understand (as never owned a tyros!) but you might understand

http://tyrosmania.com/registrations.php

I think I was trying to ask can these tyros registrations be loaded into varranger?


Thanks for your quick responses to all my questions.

Jules

Hi Dan

I don't have the style pack, but wanted to check that varranger could take them if I got the tyros version.  Would the registrations work as well?

I have a midisport 4x4 for i3 to PC that should connect it up ok. 
Will an intel i5, windows 7, 8gb memory be good enough to run varranger (and perhaps hypersonic vst in future)?

Finally just to check - I would be putting varranger on to a usb stick, what size stick needed for that?

Thanks for help

Jules

I have been looking at getting a second hand KN7000, but found varranger and it looks a more practical choice - I only play at home for me.  So a few questions from a newbie on this.

Can you tell me if anyone has tried the Strewberry music "KN7000 reprise styles" with varranger - and what's the latest Tyros styles that would work with varranger.  This is what I was looking at:

http://strawberrymusic.store.buegle.com/product.php/5462701/

Would varranger also load the registrations from this?

In combination with my korg i3.  Would varranger and those styles give me a fair kn7000 experience - without actually needing to buy a 15 year old arranger keyboard - bearing in mind what I will use it for

Thanks

Jules