Proper midi routing for my casio cz5000 panel

[booleohhh]

Hi all, first post since the move to GitHub from the old forums. I've been working on a panel for my old cz5000 and I'm testing it using as a vst inside FL Studio. I am constantly sending and receiving over midi but if I have my audio interface (which most of my gears midi is going to and from) selected as a midi device in FL studio it isn't accessible in my panel, and vice versa. How do you normally go about using your panels in your DAWs, is loopmidi necessary or am I misunderstanding how the midi routing works in the midi settings in ctrlr.

Sorry if this is obvious I'm just a bit unsure when it comes to midi especially with using between different software. Cheers in advance for the help.

[damiensellier]

Hi,
Windows MIDI drivers are single client only unfortunately with most interfaces. 1 port for 1 software.
You need to use the MIDI Thru internal capabilities of Ctrlr :

https://github.com/damiensellier/CtrlrX/wiki/Ctrlr-MIDI-Thru-capabilities
#542

OR

https://www.soundquest.org/Help/MidiQuest12/using_plugins_with_single_clie.htm

You can duplicate your physical ports and convert them to 2x virtual ports with an external software such as :
You can do it with virtual midi ports and a splitter with LoopMIDI and rtpMIDI.

https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html
https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/rtpmidi.html

If FL Studio is not using your MIDI ports directly, you can disable them in FL settings and they will be available for Ctrlr.

Damien

[damiensellier]

PS: An early version of new windows MIDI drivers are on test. They fix the single client problem and will offer multi client like on macOS for WIN11 and WIN10 : https://microsoft.github.io/MIDI/

https://github.com/microsoft/MIDI/releases

I did not try them but it seems very promissing.

Good luck and let us know if you went this route ;)

[booleohhh]

Sweeeet thanks for the info, ill check it out and let you know how it goes. Much appreciated