Virus Darkstar - connecting to Reaper / Spark drum machine

    Hi


    Apologies in advance for my newbie questions...


    Ok, so I have a Darkstar and it sounds amazing. I want to be able to connect/sync it with my drum machine (Spark LE) and/or my DAW (Reaper) so that any rhythmic patches or ARP on the Darkstar matches the tempo of the song. Can someone please explain (in words of one syllable!) how I go about doing this.


    I appreciate that this is probably a question about midi but I'm a midi newbie too!


    Thanks in advance!

    Are you using the TI plugin or good old MIDI?
    The advice that is good in any case is to:

    • Make sure tempo data is being sent to the tracks
    • Virus MIDI notes should be quantized and snap to bars since ARPs in the Virus relate to the note-on and not bar/beat grid. Without quantization and snapping you will hear an apparent rhythmic phase difference,

    Regarding everything else, it depends on how you hook up the Virus.


    Hope this gives you a good start.

    One important thing regarding using the Virus Control Plugin which is important specifically when comes to ARPs, is to leave 1 or 2 bars of silence at the beginning of the project, or else the ARP will sound like you woke it up in the middle of the night - meaning it will take time for it to understand what's going on and where to fit in (this will happen also when you play the project from somewhere in the middle, but since you don't do your final mixdown from the middle of the project it can be tolerated).