I have had Virtual drumline 2 for several months now and it is working great. Fantastic program. Today I took it one step further and bought a midi keyboard to use. I'm having issiues with it working with finale.
I'm using finale 2005 on Windows XP. I have a Keystation 88es.
When i set the MIDI THRU to ";smart"; in finale, and click on a staff using speedy edit, random notes start playing. For example, I click on the snare staff, and the metronome starts playing randomly. It aslo doesn't pick up any keystrokes. VDL2 does pick up the keystrokes, but when I hit a note on my MIDI Keyboard, it only plays whats on channel 1. Lets say i load up a miramba on channel 1, and snare on channel 2. Well the marimba sounds great. But the snare will not play unless i change it to channel 1 and the marimba to 2.
The settings i'm using are: --Finale-- MIDI IN-USB Audio Device MIDI OUT-MIDI YOKE NT-1 MIDI THRU-Smart in the speedy entry the ";use midi device for input"; is checkmarked.
--VD2-- MIDI Input Interface-Midi Yoke NT:1-ON MIDI Output-all off
If anybody could help me it would be great. I hope I included enough information so you all can answer it, if not, just ask for what you need and i'll be happy to find out.
Well, i downloaded a demo of Sebelius 4, and the keyboard works fine with it. It also works with Finale 2006 on my laptop. I Uninstalled finale from my computer, and will reinstall it soon. I'm hoping this will fix the problem.
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I'm using finale 2005 on Windows XP. I have a Keystation 88es.
When i set the MIDI THRU to ";smart"; in finale, and click on a staff using speedy edit, random notes start playing. For example, I click on the snare staff, and the metronome starts playing randomly. It aslo doesn't pick up any keystrokes. VDL2 does pick up the keystrokes, but when I hit a note on my MIDI Keyboard, it only plays whats on channel 1. Lets say i load up a miramba on channel 1, and snare on channel 2. Well the marimba sounds great. But the snare will not play unless i change it to channel 1 and the marimba to 2.
The settings i'm using are:
--Finale--
MIDI IN-USB Audio Device
MIDI OUT-MIDI YOKE NT-1
MIDI THRU-Smart
in the speedy entry the ";use midi device for input"; is checkmarked.
--VD2--
MIDI Input Interface-Midi Yoke NT:1-ON
MIDI Output-all off
If anybody could help me it would be great. I hope I included enough information so you all can answer it, if not, just ask for what you need and i'll be happy to find out.
-Zach