MIDI Router

Sonic Foundry s Virtual MIDI Router should be included on your ACID CD in the /extras/ folder, but it can also be downloaded (with your ACID serial number) fix)m the Web site  

Final configuration of the Virtual MIDI Router after installation. 

ACID-generated MTC can be viewed on the time display. Notice that you can also enable generation here as well. 

Confignre ACID to ontput MIDI Clock using 1 Sonic Foundry MIDI Router as an Ontpnt device for the Generate MIDI Clock settings on the Sync tab of the Preferences dialog box. 

Right-click the time display and select MIDI Clock Out to view the generated clock. Press Shifth-F7 on your keyboard to enable (arm) ACID. The time display will read MIDI Qock Out—Enabled.  

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Most consumer-level sound cards have only one hardware MIDI port and, therefore, only one default driver for MIDI input. This input driver can be shared between two applications running at the same time, so you can trigger and synchronize playback from two applications at the same time. It is not possible to use this port to communicate between two software applications, but you can install a software-based Virtual MIDI Router (VMR) to create another MIDI inpnt port so you can use another software application to trigger ACID. Sonic Foundry has included its VMR on the ACID CD. Specific usage is discussed later in this chapter. Once you have configured the master device to generate MTC, make sure the frame rate of the device and AQD match and then ... 

To use the VMR for syncing purposes, select a Sonic Foundry MIDI Router port (numbered 1-4) on the Sync tab in the Preferences dialog in ACID (see Figure 10.15) and set up the other application to listen or send over the same port. 

In SONAR, from the Options menu, select MIDI Devices. In the MIDI Ports dialog, on the Inpnt Ports list, select 1 Sonic Fonndry MIDI Router (single click it to highlight it) and click the OK button. 

Configure ACID to output MIDI Tlmecode (MTC ACID and Vegas both chase MTC and not MIDI Clock). This is done from Options > Preferences > Sync tab. In the Generate MIDI Hmecode settings option, select one of the Sonic Foundry MIDI Routers. See the previous chapter for details. 

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