I need help. Can someone who has experience provide instruction on setting up a rig with dual WIDI set ups. And using on song to control dog changes. I need help - I have MacBook, widi, nord stage 3, keytar and top Artiria. I don’t want to start working on new songs without properly setting up everything right
I have some experience with GP and lots of experience with MIDI. I’ve not used WIDI but that should be no problem. I can read the manuals and I have lots of MIDI (cabled) gear (both USB and MIDI DIN). I also have a Stage 2 EX and several other controllers and keyboards. I’ve helped another guy in NZ set up his rig. He uses GP as a one man band with lots of stuff attached.
PM me if interested.
Steve
I did a post on setting up widi using cme on macbook may help you
I just read your post - very helpful - I bought the wide bud for the MacBook so it will have better latency and distance for my keytar. I think my challenge is as follows - I have the current set up (lets call it A) which has been without GP and VST. I need that setup available to me live until I’m able to completely migrate to the set up that you showed - is there a way to have both live? the magic of setup A is that Onsong Pro wires into the Nord and I use each song in my set list to automatically send program changes to the Nord. I want to keep Onsong and find a way to send program changes to GP - If I could do that and have it make the Nord switch from local control on to off when I got to VST - that would be amazing. Im thinking that the only way to really move to GP is to make the full switch - which will take a LONNG time (over 150 songs to program)
does the iPhone onsong send midi or osc to the nord, I guess you are sending program changes.
Are you wanting to use the Nord as an audio soundcard or are you going to use a separate soundcard?
if the iPhone is sending midi program changes, you could just pass through the program changes(PC) to the nord via GP. using one rackspace and add others using internal Vst’s.
My Choice would be to have GP change to a song(part) based on the PC and then have it via messages or action send the same PC to the Nord.
may take an hour but you can set up one rackspace and one song then duplicate the song using hotkeys, you would have to go in and edit each song part for PC in and out.
The advantage to this would be you are then ready to migrate each song to a new rackspace with the vst setup you want.
If you route the nord Audio into GP you could switch it on / off depending on the song IE Nord or internal Vst, and route it out to a soundcard(may require a separate soundcard)
I’ve not used a nord so unsure its audio routing capabilities would permit it to work without a second card, the focusrite 4i4 or above would be ideal mic guitar keyboard, midi powered from a hub or MacBook.
the other advantage would be you could route mic and or Guitar into GP and control effects etc.
so for a couple hours work you could have a template for your migration
best to try two or three songs get the PC in and out working right then duplicate.
some thoughts for you.
I have a radial USB Di box - i never thought about using a focusrite for the transition - so If i plug the Nord stage 3 and the MacBook Pro into the focus rite - I could program when the Nord is being used for sound vs. just as a keyboard controller? - it sounds like a great idea. The big thing is on the first set up Id like to eventually take the upper keyboard and eventually replace it with a keytar only - so I can use the top rack for songs where I need some hands and better key placement - and of course - when im using the keytar for itself - i just take it off the stand….
look at rig manager for creating a midi alias for your keyboards, then you can swap out the instruments and replace them with others, or I use the global rack and route the midi to the local over a common global channel it allows me an infinite variation of what instruments route, I can quickly change what between song parts using new splitting or entire new racks.
via midi channels I send the keyboards and I can have up to 6 splits across 6 instruments in the same rackspace.
but you can literally do anything you can imagine with this software.
If your playing Keyar have a look at the Breathe Controller BBC2 I play sax with it and the keytar, works great for Us and Them Floyd for me.
regards
Damian
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