Bill Campbell Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Anyone ever use an instrument definition to select patches in a VST synth? Is that even possible? Just curious.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francois Greeff Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 Yes I do it very successful but Quite a bit of preparation. You need 1 - LoopMidi (Tobias Erichsen - freeware-donation)- There I define the virtual midi ports with the same a name similar to the VST. Both in and out eg. Yamaha S-YXG 50 2 - vsthostx64 - (H. Seib - freeware-donation ) - The you add the Virtual Midi Port an link the VST. This must always run before Sonar 3 - Create instrument definition file. 4. - In Sonar = Preferences- Midi- Devices Add the Vitual Port = Preferences- Midi-Instruments -Define-Import- instrument definition file and then link to port 5 - Vst in now running like a hardware synth = don't add as vst synth in Sonar I started doing this for vst synths that struggled with patch select options but do it for most I use regularly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user 905133 Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 5 hours ago, Francois Greeff said: Yes I do it very successful but Quite a bit of preparation . . . . Thanks for enumerating the steps you used! Not a top priority for me since I haven't created instrument definition files in a long time. But I am curious to see if the steps will be useful for other types of workflows / projects I have explored in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 There shouldn't be any need to go to these steps. Click on the Patch browser button, and you can choose definition for any .ins file you've imported, then search/select the patch from the list: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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