Has anyone shifted to GPO4 yet?

Originally Posted by Sherry C

Hi,
You'll need to be sure you have a "virtual" MIDI cable installed that connects the Aria player to Notation Composer. You can learn more about that and see a step-by-step installation of a virtual MIDI cable in the tutorial video at http://www.notation.com/vb-forum/showthread.php?t=3863 You can see a specific "Getting Started with Garritan Libraries" video at http://www.notation.com/vb-forum/showthread.php?t=3873
Enjoy!
Sherry

Thank you, Sherry, for the reply. My setup was (and is) Composer with Loopbe1 midi cable, Asio4all, and Aria+GPO4 sounds. After studying the tutorials you provided, and several new attempts today I can get it work - but when I change to another piece of music (ending Aria player, then open a new file in Composer, and restart Aria) the Aria player often "hangs" in a sound after a few bars, the Loopbe1 turns on it's mute - and I have to end all programs. I have of course checked that midi IN and OUT was not active in Composer.

Anyone have any ideas about from what/where this is caused?

I still consider buying Composer ... am impressed by it's possibilities for controlling varoius parameters ...

Thanks!
Ole

[Sherry C]

Hi,

Originally Posted by olemalm

My setup was (and is) Composer with Loopbe1 midi cable, Asio4all, and Aria+GPO4 sounds. After studying the tutorials you provided, and several new attempts today I can get it work - but when I change to another piece of music (ending Aria player, then open a new file in Composer, and restart Aria) the Aria player often "hangs" in a sound after a few bars, the Loopbe1 turns on it's mute - and I have to end all programs.

A couple of thoughts based on my own experience.

Have you tried not closing the Aria player, but just either loading another instrument set, or changing the instruments that are there?

I have a sound card that's quirky about only allowing one device at a time have access to it, and if I close a device that was using it (eg. Aria), it seems to go searching for another device to give itself to (a sort of wanton sound card...). Anyway, it sometimes does the same thing - if I turn off a device, then turn it back on, I don't get any sound from it until I turn off everything else that might possibly be connecting to the soundcard.

Another possibility is that there is something in the .mid or .not file that is causing the LoopBe to think it is going into a feedback loop, and it will automatically mute. Unfortunately the free LoopBe1 does not have the toggle setting to turn on or off the "enable shortcut detection". The pay-for version does, and this can eliminate that source of audio problems. I've come across some "found" .mid files that had this issue, and I had to turn off the "enable shortcut detection" to get them to play all the way through without hanging.

Hope something above is helpful!
Sherry

Originally Posted by Sherry C

Hi,
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Another possibility is that there is something in the .mid or .not file that is causing the LoopBe to think it is going into a feedback loop, and it will automatically mute. Unfortunately the free LoopBe1 does not have the toggle setting to turn on or off the "enable shortcut detection". The pay-for version does, and this can eliminate that source of audio problems. I've come across some "found" .mid files that had this issue, and I had to turn off the "enable shortcut detection" to get them to play all the way through without hanging.

Hi again,
Thank's to Sherry - now everything works perfect. The solution was (your advise) to change LoopBe1 to LoopBe30 with the possibility of "disabling shortcut detection". This was IT... I will go on investigating the Composer program - as a possible companion to Harmony Assistant from Myriad. So far I have (also) experienced a very good MIDI-file import in Composer.
Thank you for a well working forum - and all the best
Ole