I will try and keep this as short as I can. 5 questions but really about 50. I’ve been watching hours and hours of youtube videos, reading the manual and trying to message others with these questions since there is not tech support phone number. I have spent the last 6 weeks trying get my system working but so many questions and I have 3 weeks til I play live. I have my rackspaces built, setlist and song parts built. Using focusrite 2i2 and Morningstar MC8. (Also have rjm mastermind available but have not tried it).
Why is my dry tone louder than any of my effects?
How do I get my Mtuner widget to work?
How do I get my volume pedal widget to work?
Are all PC’s and CC’s supposed to come from GP, or Morningstar editor, or both?
Why is my Morningstar showing up in Midi ports but not Midi monitoring?
Honestly, if I new someone in the Dallas area who was willing to help I would pay for them to teach me in person.
No small company has telephone support - it’s just not economically feasible unless they charge 5 times the price to cover the cost!
I see you’re using a focusrite. Those things are a bit notorious and apparently one thing many of them do by default is pass audio input directly to audio output for “monitoring” (sigh) so you’re not hearing them “through Gig Performer”. You need to see if that’s what is happening and disable it. Check the focusrite documentation for that one.
As for your other questions, it would be better if you explain exactly what you are trying to accomplish as your questions are a bit lacking in details to be able to give exact answers. For example, rather than “how do I get my volume pedal widget to work”, describe what you want your volume pedal to do.
With a bit more details like that, we should be able to help you.
By the way, the RJM Mastermind is an awesome pedal board and although it’s probably to early in your experience with GP to leverage it, GP can be made to automatically change the labels on those buttons so as you perform different songs, it can display what the buttons should be doing for each song.
I guess you mean Melda’s Mtuner plugin? (A widget is a visual element you place on a rackspace: a button, knob, led or shape). To make it visible you could a button widget to your rackspace and assign the ‘open plugin gui (or whatever it’s called)’ from the plugin parameter list. You cannot have it seamlessly placed on a rackspace.
MIDI messages can come from external sources as well from internal sources.
A gotcha is that PC messages from external sources are normally ‘eaten away’ by GP, before they reach the MIDI-in blocks. This is because GP can use these for selecting rackspaces or songparts. I say normally, because you can limit this.
You can send MIDI messages from within GP to GP using the MIDI-out loopback block and listening to them using the MIDI-in loopback block. (I think this way GP will not ‘eat’ these, but I’m not sure).
If you have enabled the MIDI-in port by selecting it in the options window, you should see all incoming messages in the Global MIDI monitor window, including PC messages. If you don’t see any messages, a common cause (especially on Windows) is that another program has opened the same MIDI port. GP will not report whether opening succeeded or not.
The MIDI monitors you can add in a wiring diagram need to be connected to a MIDI-in block, otherwise they will show nothing.