Virtual Pianist | MIDI Out

Direct MIDI Out

• We received a lot of inquiries regarding MIDI passthrough for Virtual Pianist and are happy to announce that all VP plug-ins now support Direct MIDI Out!
• This feature allows you to instantly send the MIDI data from VP to other instrument tracks.
• The exact workflow is a bit different in each DAW, so please refer to your DAW's user manual to learn more about MIDI routing.
• Note that in some DAWs like Logic, setting up Direct MIDI Out is fairly complex.
• In some DAWs, using the VST format is required (e.g. Ableton Live).

Here's how the track receiving the MIDI data from VP should look in Ableton Live:

• MIDI instrument plugin (e.g. USYNTH) on the receiver track
• Input Type (MIDI Input Source) = Virtual Pianist
• Input Channel = Virtual Pianist
• Track must be armed
• Track must be active (not muted)

MIDI Drag and Drop

• Make sure to also use the built-in MIDI drag & drop feature!
• You will have noticed the little areas with six dots that appear on the Control Octave:

• To drag a phrase from the plug-in to your DAW, click and hold in the dotted drag area of any phrase key on the Interactive Keyboard and drag the mouse pointer over to the target track. Then let go and the MIDI file gets created.
• That MIDI region will contain the phrase of the key you dragged from, with the last detected chord, considering the Play Range and Busyness setting but not the Velocity setting.
• Use this to build entire songs: Hold a chord, drag phrase, hold next chord – you get it!
  
  
• Note: When you Drag & Drop onto the track of the Virtual Pianist itself, Virtual Pianist will switch to Instrument mode to play back that phrase.

MIDI Drag & Drop is particularly useful when you...

• ...want to build a song part by part
• ...combine phrases from various styles
• ...apply detail edits to phrases