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Hi,

Trying to load a Yamaha S90 as a vst to MC8.

Full title is S90 XS/S70 EditorStandalone / VST V1.6.8 for Windows.

All I get when I load it as a midi vst to my midi keyboard is a metronome - this vst triggers the MC metronome.

Any ideas how to get the vst running properly please - anyone else use it? I wondered if it contained a mellotron effect?

Ric

Hi,

The setting in your screenshot is for sending MIDI out to an external MIDI device.

Did you install the S90 Editor software? If so, did you look for it among the VSTi Instruments?

Greg

Acoustica Greg wrote:Hi,

The setting in your screenshot is for sending MIDI out to an external MIDI device.

Did you install the S90 Editor software? If so, did you look for it among the VSTi Instruments?

Greg

Thanks. Loaded this to vst folders as a 'wild card' to see what would happen. MC8 shows it in the vst library but doesn't load it as a synth option - tried everything. Is it possible I haven't got this S90 program configured properly please?

As you can see something is being recorded but you cannot hear it being played or listen to what was recorded on play-back.

Hi,

Are we talking about the S90 Editor software?

What do you mean when you say you loaded this to VST folders as a wildcard?

Does the VST have an installer (.exe) file? If so, did you run it? If it's the S90 Editor VST think it's a VST3 file, so it would go to the VST3 folder.

All 64-bit VST3 plugins would be installed in here:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3


Greg

Acoustica Greg wrote:...did you look for it among the VSTi Instruments? Greg

You're right, it turns up under VSTi, but I still get the same result, I can load & play it by way of my midi keyboard, but hear nothing - & what is recorded on the blue field cannot be played back - you just get silence ... & the metronome.

Acoustica Greg wrote:Hi,

Are we talking about the S90 Editor software?

Yes.

What do you mean when you say you loaded this to VST folders as a wildcard?

I mean I wasn't sure what the program would do, it came up under a google-search for 'mellotron'.

Sorry if this seems like a dumb question, but are you outputting the S90 to speakers? There’s no “sound” within the VST editor. If you’re seeing midi data recorded, it sounds like an output issue. The Editor just allows the S90 to “appear” to function like a VST as all sound and effects will be handled externally by the keyboard. It requires the keyboard sound to be output to speakers via the output jacks or USB (if USB audio output is an option on the S90).

Sqk

squeakie wrote:Sorry if this seems like a dumb question, but are you outputting the S90 to speakers? There’s no “sound” within the VST editor. If you’re seeing midi data recorded, it sounds like an output issue. The Editor just allows the S90 to “appear” to function like a VST as all sound and effects will be handled externally by the keyboard. It requires the keyboard sound to be output to speakers via the output jacks or USB (if USB audio output is an option on the S90).

Thanks, speakers were on, using M-Audio as soundcard.

Think something's wrong with the S90 set-up because as soon as I load it the MC8 metronome starts up, I never use a metronome.

The point was that the audio output should be from the synth/keyboard, not the DAW for this config.

Mark Bliss wrote:The point was that the audio output should be from the synth/keyboard, not the DAW for this config.

How do you check for this, diagnostics? I don't usually have a problem with the midi keyboard not responding sonically in MC8, using virtual tracks. What would I be doing wrong & how would I correct the error please?

The virtual track is recording something, I can neither hear what is being recorded (midi) as I play it, nor play it back as a recording afterwards; but something is going down - I can see it on the blue virtual track as a graphic line.

Thank you.

Using the keyboard as a MIDI controller you are sending MIDI to the DAW and its VSTi, and the DAW is sending AUDIO data to the soundcard.

I believe the point was that the program you are trying to use is intended to send MIDI from the computer to the keyboard, and AUDIO would need to be routed from the KEYBOARD to the soundcard, or directly from the keyboard to speakers. Etc.

MIDI data is not AUDIO data. It is a set of instructions. You cannot transmit AUDIO data via MIDI connections.
So what you are trying to do would require MIDI to keyboard, AUDIO from keyboard.

Mark Bliss wrote:Using the keyboard as a MIDI controller you are sending MIDI to the DAW and its VSTi, and the DAW is sending AUDIO data to the soundcard.

I believe the point was that the program you are trying to use is intended to send MIDI from the computer to the keyboard, and AUDIO would need to be routed from the KEYBOARD to the soundcard, or directly from the keyboard to speakers. Etc.

MIDI data is not AUDIO data. It is a set of instructions. You cannot transmit AUDIO data via MIDI connections.
So what you are trying to do would require MIDI to keyboard, AUDIO from keyboard.

Midi is data not sound, correct; Mixcraft can turn that data into electronic sound. As you can see by the screenshot I was using the Q25 midi keyboard. So it looks as if the S90 is incompatible for my set-up, as it currently stands? I certainly don't want to reconfigure Mixcraft because it works for everything else I use, including the midi keyboard + EWI for example, apart from using this particular VSTi.

No problem.

Hi,

The S90 VST editor is designed to work with an S90 keyboard, if you don't have one of those, then there's no reason to install that plugin.

Greg

Acoustica Greg wrote:Hi,

The S90 VST editor is designed to work with an S90 keyboard, if you don't have one of those, then there's no reason to install that plugin.

Greg

Cool, thanks

Yes, I missed that you didn't even have the keyboard the software goes with. Sorrybouthat chief!