Midiplayer is a simple VST midi file player. It needs work but it should be usable on most files -- or at least one created with Thalamus. All controls are automated using VST and midi cc.
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Plugin Description:
Advanced midi gate can be used to easily mute an audio/vsti track via midi. For example, it can be used to create the stuttering effects commonly found in trance and psy-trance. AMG is different to other midi gates because:
- the envelope can control a filter instead of a vca
- the envelope is tighter than most other midi gates
- noise can be added to the signal to make the sound more aggresive
- either the left or right channel can be delayed slightly to fatten the sound
- when you stop your sequencer, the plugin disables itself so that you can edit the gated track without having to switch the plugin off
- there is an autopan section that can throw the signal to alternate speakers each time the gate is triggered
- the autopan, filter and noise sections all have bpm synced lfos for more sonic possibilities
How to use the plugin:
AMG is an insert effect. Put it on a audio channel or a vsti channel with a suitable part (ie a sustained sound).
Then create a midi track and assign the midi output to amg. Program in the rhythm that you want to hear.
Midi Plugins (VST MIDI Instruments and fx);
There are four MIDI plugins: XYPad, 8LFOs, DrumSeq and StepSeq. These were the first plugins I ever made and as such aren’t great and need rewriting. I used some, how shall I put it... "idiosyncratic" methods when hacking these together and was still learning the VST SDK, so apologies if these do not work as expected.
Different VST hosts handle MIDI from plugins in different ways - some don’t support it at all! Different versions of hosts also handle MIDI differently - e.g. Cubasis 3 used to accept MIDI from VSTs in the way it accepts MIDI from outside (e.g. a midi keyboard) - it would send it to a central buffer and then send it to the selected MIDI track. However, after v. 3.0r2, Cubasis no longer sent this stright away so you couldn’t have one VST triggering another.
XYPad allows you to control two MIDI ccs at the same time.
8LFOs provides, obviously, 8 LFOs that send on any MIDI cc with various waveforms, syncing and control options.
DrumSeq was made to provide a simple grid edit drum pattern sequencer to make my life a bit easier in Cubasis (kinda fallen by the wayside now that Fruityloops works as a VSTi!). Still handy for controlling drum sampler VSTis like Computer Music's SR202.
StepSeq started off just for creating simple MIDI cc patterns - e.g. for filter hocketing. However, it kinda bloated and got out of hand cos I kept adding options and functions. So now it can also send midi notes (either a set note or you can use a little piano roll you can select which patterns are active at any one time and there's a pattern playlist.
There are two versions of each plugin: one works as a VST instrument and the other as an effect. Using either version means you sacrifice one of your VSTi or VST effect slots, but you can always record the midi output once your happy with it and unload the plugin. Exporting the bank will also save the plugin state - so you can reload it all later if needs be.
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Stepper is a little step sequencer that outputs
MIDI notes periodically in 16 steps. You can
of course synchronize playback to the host
tempo and output 2 additional CCs to control
for example cutoff and resonance. External
transposing by MIDI notes is also possible.
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Midi Switcher: a simple MIDI switcher, sends to 12 seperate channels.
Notes 36-47 will switch ports 1-12. You can choose to use any CC to switch as well. If the option "C-1 (36)" is chosen, all input is sent through.
1.5 version includes an output that allows you to send out all 12 ports on 12 corresponding midi channels instead of choosing just one output number and sending to all MIDI channels. (Port 1 sends out to channels 1-12 and Port 2 to Ch2, Port 3 Ch3, etc.)