Hello! How can I use one MIDI device for both programs Dorico and Cubase.
In Mac it used to work, when I switched windows the MIDI controller would work on both programs.
But in windows when I open cubase project, the midi device works with that and not with dorico (altough it is selected in preferences).
Now, in order to work it on dorico I need to close both projects and programs and run dorico again, which is very time consuming. And I would really need to work on both programs simiultaenously. How could i do that?
So, if you launch Cubase first, then the MIDI keyboard doesn’t work in Dorico?
If you launch Dorico first, does the MIDI keyboard work in Cubase?
Assuming that you have selected the MIDI device in Dorico’s Preferences, then It sounds like some OS-level configuration or driver issue.
Windows only sends one MIDI signal so the signal will only be received by one program. If you need multiple programs to receive the signal simultaneously, you need to create multiple MIDI ports, and use a software MIDI router to send the signal to multiple ports simultaneously. loopMIDI is a freeware program you can use to create additional MIDI ports. For MIDI routers, MIDI-OX is ancient, but free and still works. I use Bome. Bidule seems to be popular too, but there are lots of others too.
Just create as many ports as you have programs that will need to simultaneously use the MIDI signal, then set up your software MIDI router to take the incoming signal and route it to all of those ports. In each program select the port that you created for use with that program. I usually name them with the program name, i.e. Dorico MIDI Port, so I don’t mess up the routing.
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Not on my Windows 10 machine. I currently have Dorico, Maschine and Arp2600 running I am getting sound from all of the programs and was able to do real-time midi input into Dorico.
That’s a different scenario. Can you open a standalone VST player outside of Dorico, then play your MIDI keyboard and both use MIDI input into Dorico and trigger the standalone VST sample at the same time?
You can try the Nexmidi Merge app. It’s free. https://divisimate.com/free
I can, I sometimes like to hear just a piano while inputing notes so I open Opus Steinway or EZKeys and turn off midi monitoring in Dorico.