Hi Virus users!
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My VST plugin is ready for a release. It's basically a patch-holder which communicates with a Virus TI through MIDI.
It's called AceMidivirus, and it's a fake VSTi plugin you load into a dummy track and which gets loaded/saved with your song.
When loading your song, it switches your synth to "sequencer mode" and sends the song patches to the different parts.
Here's what it looks like inside FL studio (for non-FL users: it's the dialog on the left-half of the picture).
[Blockierte Grafik: http://ace17.free.fr/acemidivirus.PNG]
It's completely free and open-source, you can download it here:
https://launchpad.net/acevirus
Here's a direct link to the archive (the plugin is called "AceMidivirus-r69.dll") :
http://launchpad.net/acevirus/…oad/AcePluginPack-r69.zip
Quick start:
- create a MIDI track in your DAW.
- insert an instance of AceMidivirus into it.
- Choose "Virus TI Synth" in both comboboxes at the bottom of the plugin window.
- Then click "receive" on the parts you want to download from the synth. They will be saved when you will save your song.
- If you have tweaked controllers and want to restore the original state of the patch, click "Send".
- If you want to load/save patches from files, the export/import buttons will do the job.
Remark: as the plugin completely bypasses the host to communicate with the Virus (because many hosts don't forward MIDI sysex), and the "Virus TI Synth" midi driver don't allow multiple connections : so the host must not directly open the "Virus TI Synth" MIDI device. That's why I strongly recommend using "MIDI Yoke" + "MIDI OX" in order not to connect directly to "Virus TI Synth". I'll be glad to post information on how to do this if someone is insterested.
For Reaper users: a non-host-bypassing option is in work
Please let me know what you think! Any comments, feature requests, tips, are welcome.