Virtual midi cables

[Sherry C]

Hi guys,

We have a couple of tutorial videos that show exactly how to install a virtual MIDI cable (or port as David J says), as well as how to set up Garritan Libraries both in the Aria player and in Composer.

You can find those either on the Tutorial Videos page on our main website or here on the User Forum in the Tutorial Videos section. There are also template .not files for the various Garritan ensembles that you can download from either location.

Enjoy
Sherry

[Reinhold H.]

And finally: Microsoft is going to launch new MIDI software as part of Windows 11 by end of 2025/early 2026. The existing MIDI driver software from the mid 80s will be replaced. This software package is called Windows MIDI Services. The final update package of Windows 11 is not yet defined today as of Oct. 22nd, 2025.
Windows MIDI Services offers MIDI loops which are integrated into Windows 11. Composer/Musician 5 will support these loop features in an update.

Reinhold

[Sherry C]

Hi friends,


For those of you who may be a little fuzzy as to what this all means, it means that for stand-alone software MIDI playback devices like Aria or the like, the new MS MIDI Service will provide ways (the "loopbacks") to connect the playback software (eg. Aria, SynthFont, and others) to Musician and Composer. Our software will be capable of detecting these ports and allowing you to use them to connect devices and use them as the audio output for our software.


All of this will be coming out at some point in the future (see the link in Reinhold's post for further information and updates), and Notation Software will be ready to implement the service to help streamline your music making


ttfn,
Sherry