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Hi,
I have a main Scope Daw with a Scope Project and two SRB 6's, a recently acquired Steinberg Midex 8, a second Giga computer with Luna and an expansion board with ADAT coming back to the main Scope computer. Also I have an Oberheim Xpander and a couple of outboard effects with midi. I also run Cubase SX 2 as a sequencer and don't want to run Gigastudio 3 in Rewire because I want the option of going straight into Scope. I have managed to figure out a stable way of using my two Powercore Firewires in Gigastudio so I have access to some VST effects. My controller is an Oberhiem MC 1000. I wish to use Cubase as a sequencer and recorder about half the time and the rest just as a sequencer and then recording into VDAT.

I think my brain is frozen here in Canada. Anybody with some similar set-ups or expertise in Midi routing?

Much appreciated...

Too much gear, not enough talent!

You should talk to Scope4Live or do a search You've gotta have a similar setup to him.

Too much gear, not enough talent!

Yeah I know that feeling,That's why I'm going to become a sound engineer, I think everybody should know their own abilities.I don't have the patience to write music.

Well I found some things on Midex but I was wondering if adding another Giga computer required some other thinking. I forgot to mention I have the A16 to bring stuff from the outside world like the Xpander....some think that it is best to bypass the midi in Scope altogether and just use the Midex. Not sure how that really works....the no talent part by the way is engineering the music end of it is a no brainer....

well, a midi routing application like MidiOx is just a communication switchboard for various midi streams. I guess on a CoreDuo it's an almost unmeasurable CPU 'load' .

Since it takes care of the hardware midi buffers it protects applications like SFP from having to deal with the more critical parts themselves.
The Midi router does nothing but midi, while SFP has a lot of other tasks going on.
Imo it streamlines things a lot and is very easy to handle.

All your hardware midi signals are available (after the routing) as 'sequencer source/destinations'

cheers, Tom

Using a midex 8 you should have 8 output ports accessible from Cubase - no need for Midi Ox with that level of spec - you can have every piece of hardware you've got on a seperate port all controlled from cubase.

Obviously you still need the software midi ins into Scope if you want to trigger scope synths etc [sequencer midi source modules in Scope - they should appear automatically in SX as Creamware midi 1 (& 2 if enabled in your computers device manager]

Whether you use the Scope hardware ins & outs is up to you - they should have no impact on your system stability - treat them as a bonus!

Thanks for all your input. It has made things alot clearer for me!

Brotha' Man Crickstone,
You can buy the VST version of GS3 called GVI and avoid ReWire altogether. Glad to see a fellow Oberheim, Giga, Scope man, w. hardware FX too. I bet you have Blue Tubes also.

www.learngigastudio.com

GIV sure is lightyears more stable than G3........

Well I guess the $100 (?) upgrade is worth it then. And yes 'cause of you I have Blue Tubes Jimmy and love them. A lot like little Indian spices makes things taste a little better. And just picked up an Oasys PCI on the Internet yesterday..

Thanks Guys....