These are the two most frequently used Virtual MID Cable utility programs for Windows:
#STUDIO ONE REWIRE VST MAC OS X#
įor practical purpose, every Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) application that supports ReWire also supports interacting with NOTION External MIDI staves and this is done via Virtual MIDI Cables, which on the Mac are provided by Audio MIDI Setup and are part of Mac OS X but on Windows machines, establishing a Virtual MIDI Cable requires using a third-party Virtual MIDI Cable utility program. It's very important to understand the differences in External MIDI and ReWire MIDI.
#STUDIO ONE REWIRE VST PROFESSIONAL#
THOUGHTS ON NOTION 6 AND STUDIO ONE PROFESSIONAL 3.5+ Over the past few weeks, I have been exploring the new ReWire MIDI functionality in NOTION 6 and Studio One Professional 3.5.5 and this completes the big picture for ReWire. There are more, of course, but I think these are iconic and representative. There are a few recording studios and entities that are associated strongly with cookie cutters in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and these include Abbey Road Studios, The Brill Building, Capitol Records Tower, Gold Star Studios, Hitsville U.S.A., The Record Plant, and The Sound Factory. "The Formula" is like a cookie cutter and once you have the cookie cutter, it's vastly easier to bake cookies. This set of patterns is so important that it maps to a practical goal, which specifically is to develop a system for creating "popular songs" and I call this system "The Formula". There are more singers and musical groups, of course but when you study these types of songs, what you soon discover is that all of them have a pattern comprising some combination of. In the 1950s, this mapped to songs by Elvis Presley and in the 1960s, it mapped to the Beatles. Instead, I am focused on what I call "popular songs", which basically are songs played on the radio to entertain teenagers and the so-called "Youth of Today". I am not very interested in composing operas and symphonies, although this certainly is something one can do in the virtual music universe. One of the most important secondary advantages is that it's affordable, since for example you can get a professional quality VSTi audio engine and corresponding set of sampled sounds libraries for less than the cost of perhaps 10 seconds of hiring a real orchestra or any other type of group of musicians. The primary advantage of doing this with music notation and virtual instruments is that there are no practical limits on instrumentation and orchestration. Since I do everything myself, every strategy is based on doing one thing at a time so the concept of creating songs in layers works nicely here in the sound isolation studio and from a practical perspective it takes about the same amount of time as it does to do this with a musical group when you count development, practice time, and studio recording. Initially, I focus on the structure of the verse and then later add a chorus, bridge, and interlude. I start with what I call the "Basic Rhythm Section", which is a sketch of the song and has simple drumkit, bass, and rhythm guitar or piano staves, along with a staff for the simple melody, where the drumkit usually is a kick drum, snare drum, and hi-hats. When I am creating songs this way, it's not unusual to have 25 to 50 NOTION subscores. The solution is to create songs in layers, where each layer is a NOTION subscore that has only a few VSTi virtual instruments and no VST effects plug-ins. This strategy works nicely but some of the VSTi virtual instruments are highly resource intensive, which overall maps to NOTION becoming overwhelmed by all the processing that has to be done in real-time on the fly. I have been doing ReWire sessions since 2010 with Digital Performer (MOTU) as the ReWire host controller and NOTION and Reason as ReWire slaves and for the most part this was focused on ReWire Audio, where the VSTi virtual instruments were hosted in NOTION and the AU and VST effects plug-ins were hosted in Digital Performer. įor reference, I am writing a book on digital music production (which is coming along nicely) but while never lacking in what at times is overwhelming self-esteem and occasionally considering myself to be the "Source of All Knowledge in the Known Universe", when I decided to include a chapter on ReWire, I had to pause for a while to determine the correct way to present the big picture. In this project, I am going to provide a few insights into the various strategies for doing ReWire with NOTION 6 and Studio One Professional 3.5+.
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