Re: [MMM] Can a computer klutz MMM??

Jim Nagy wrote...

> I am willing to buy integrated software. Is there one product that is
> well documented, covers or links to notational software (I have
> Allegro 2001 and have considered getting Finale) and gives a good
> selection of tools for MMM.

Your all-in-one-just-works solution is probably Midicode. I found it
trivial to setup and get started right away -- it has your synthesizer,
mixer, effects, and tuning workbench all in one. And it's well documented.
And it's cheap at 40 pounds sterling.

When you're using *any* software synth at all you need a way to hook the
OUTPUT of Finale or Allegro to the INPUT of your soft synth. That tool is
Midi Yoke, available here:
http://www.midiox.com/

You just install Midi Yoke for your platform, then connect Finale's MIDI
output to "Midi Yoke 1" and connect the soft synth's input to "Midi Yoke
1". (Don't connect two inputs or two outputs to the same number!) Midi Yoke
looks like another "MIDI" instrument.

If you're looking for a slightly more complicated setup, then use Allegro
or Finale and send output to a "VST" host program. Use Midi Yoke to link
them.

Inside your VST host (such as VAZ Modular from
http://www.software-technology.com) you have a mixer, and you can install
"plugins" such as Big Tick's Rhino or Rainbow or Angelina, or other synth
lik Chrono-X.

It's not very hard any more to get something running, as long as you're
working on a current generation of computer, (Windows 2000, XP, or Mac OS
X).

Rick