Topic: Feature request: MIDI Out or MIDI Thru port
In some situations it's very handy to be able to route the MIDI from Pianoteq-standalone elsewhere.
As explained by groovy in this thread: http://www.forum-pianoteq.com/viewtopic.php?id=6823 Pianoteq is already capable of passing the MIDI-input to a file.
Case at hand: I'm playing in a trio, Unheard Music Concepts, when we make recordings on location, we're recording the audio of the bass and sax, and the MIDI of the piano into a DAW.
My portable piano only has 1 MIDI out (USB). The cleanest solution to making connections we found would be: FP30->laptop Windows 10 with Pianoteq -->laptop MIDI over USB out --> USBMIDI-interface -->MIDIcable--> another USBMIDIinterface --->laptop running the DAW.
On a Mac, or on LINUX it would be pretty easy to split/route the MIDI elsewhere, but on W10 I failed to find a solution, it seems Pianoteq is only accepting MIDI-input from an actual hardware-port, not from a virtual MIDIport.
The workaround we're using is FP30 ->laptop running DAW, from the DAW MIDI-through -> USBMIDI-interface -->MIDIcable--> another USBMIDIinterface --->laptop running Pianoteq. This seems just as straightforward, but in practice it's not. When we we're trying to do this with Reaper as DAW there was a lot of MIDI-latency when the MIDI arrived at Pianoteq, in the end there wasn't with Protools.
Of course another workaround would be just to use Pianoteq as a plugin inside a DAW, but for reasons of simplicity, and because of auto MIDI-recording I prefer to use the standalone version.
Anyway, it would also be very cool to have a MIDI-output port ;-)
Of course I'm totally open for suggestions, or if you got Pianoteq accpeting input from a virtual MIDI port on Windows: please let me know, in that case there must be something wrong with my W10.
Unheard Music Concepts