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Originally Posted by MetalGod  Yep, unfortunately. I had a lot of apprehensions going to Vista, and they have all turned out to be well justified. Just in case someone else is thinking about "upgrading" from XP to Vista, take my advice: FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY AND GOOD DON'T!!!
Vista is truly appalling in terms of resource usage, just the OS uses 600-800 MB of RAM even when you switch off most of the UI "features". Many audio cards also have problems with the drivers.
There are some nice new features, like being able to schedule defragmentation and other stuff, but it doesn't make up for the bad stuff. Oh well... |
Yee-ikes!
Good one for my first post here, hi guys
Yeah, sack Vista, all the stuff you "can" do with it you were always able to do with XP anyway, it's just more obvious now (Scheduling tasks has been a part of Windows since the win95 days) but since there are so many things that - on the suface at least - you "can't" do now with Vista it's a real no-no for DAW work, but I digress...
It was your question about using your SW1000XG as an external synth and the problems you were having using it in multi-timbral mode (all 16 MIDI channels playing different instruments) that I came across on my searches for a solution to that same problem, and it turned out to be soooo simple yay!
1. Download MIDI-OX for free from
MIDIOX
2. Install it on to the computer with the XG card installed (if you have separate monitors/keyboards/mice for both PCs it might be an idea to look at installing a remote admin program like UltraVNC so you can control both PCs from the one computer)
3. Run the program and first switch off MIDI input and output monitoring to save creating huge log files (Click the blue "REC" button on the status bar to switch it off)
4. Go to the "Options>MIDI Devices" menu and it'll bring up a box with your MIDI interface and SW1000XG synth outputs listed, click on your MIDI input in the inputs box to select it, then click on (as an example) SW1000XG #1 Synthesizer in the outputs box, and you'll see it appear in the port mapping box to confirm that you've mapped your MIDI input to XG synth #1 (screenshot below showing remotely-controlled setup)
5. Have a cup of tea cos your work is done.
Explanation now - I'm guessing you were maybe using XGEdit95 to configure your synth previously? This only lets external MIDI control one voice at a time and re-routes any and all incoming MIDI channel messages to that single voice, hence the problem, you'll still be able to use XGEdit to mess around with your sounds (switch off the MIDI input in XGEdit "Setup MIDI" menu though to avoid conflicts) and everything else will be cool.
Incidentally, the little box in the top-left corner of the remote window is a program called FX Teleport, (
FX Teleport) which allows you to install VST instruments and effects on your remote PC and have them appear as normal VSTs on your host PC, it uses ethernet to link the two and is all sorts of fun.