How to send MIDI to VirtualMIDISynth from a MIDI loopback

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Posts: 2
Joined: May 27, 2017 - 15:14
How to send MIDI to VirtualMIDISynth from a MIDI loopback

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to get VirtualMIDISynth to accept MIDI data from a MIDI loopback like loopBE or MIDI Yoke?
I would like to route the MIDI output stream from my sequencer to VirtualMIDISynth and to another application.  I can select the loopback as the target for my source application and as the source for this other application but VirtualMIDISynth has to be selected as a target device and there seems to be no mechanism for loopback devices to do this.
Am I missing something or is my requirement impossible to meet?

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Joined: March 25, 2012 - 01:19
Re: How to send MIDI to VirtualMIDISynth from a MIDI loopback

AFAIK a loopback transforms a target (the loopback device itself) to a source selectable as an input device, like a keyboard.

Before VMS I've used the chain VanBasco -> MIDI Yoke/LoopBe1 -> SynthFont.

VanBasco needs a target (output device), LoopBe1 exposes a virtual output device linked to a virtual input device, then SynthFont uses this input device as its source.

For what you need I suppose you should use MIDI-OX (http://www.midiox.com/) to clone your input MIDI stream in two copies and send one to VMS and the other to your instrument.
BEWARE: MIDI-OX is a MIDI swiss knife, with a lot of features and utils; I mean, it could be hard to use it (and I'm not such a good user) ;)

Posts: 2
Joined: May 27, 2017 - 15:14
Re: How to send MIDI to VirtualMIDISynth from a MIDI loopback

Thanks for your response.

The chain you describe is what I am trying to achieve, but VirtualMidiSynth does not allow the user to select its input stream; the stream has to select VirtualMIDISynth as its target; which can't be done from any of the loopback device I've found.

I'll try MidiOx.

Thanks