Virtual MIDI Router
Installing the Virtual MIDI Router
The Virtual MIDI Router from Sony acts like
a virtual MIDI cable. It allows you to route MIDI inputs and
outputs as if you had real hardware MIDI ports with a MIDI cable
between them. ACID, Vegas, and other MIDI applications will
think these ports are real MIDI interfaces and allow you to
assign other software like the Bome Mouse Keyboard to an input
just like it was a real hardware MIDI keyboard with a MIDI cable
attached. It's a very handy device so lets see how to install
it.
Software Needed for this tutorial:
Sony Virtual MIDI Router
The instructions for the Virtual MIDI
Router for Windows NT and Windows 2000 are included in the
download package from Sony. This tutorial is for people who are
running Windows XP which is not covered in Sony's instructions:
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Download the Virtual MIDI Router from
the Sony website and expand the ZIP file to reveal the
WinNT folder. You will need to find this later in Step
10 when we install the driver.
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Go to: Start > Control Panel and
double-click on Add Hardware. (Note: you
must be in Classic View to see the icons. Category View does
not have this option)
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This brings up the Add Hardware Wizard.
Click the Next button to begin.
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Select Yes, I have already connected
the hardware. Press the Next button to continue.
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Scroll to the bottom of the list and
Select Add a new hardware device and press Next.
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Select Install the hardware that I
manually select from a list (Advanced) and press Next.
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Scroll down the list and Select
Sound, video and game controllers and then press Next.
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Select Have Disk... and press
Next.
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Press the Browse button
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Navigate to the WinNT folder you
unzipped in Step 1 and select the OEMSETUP.INF file.
Press the Open button to continue.
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Press the OK button.
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Windows will complain that this driver
has not passed their rigorous testing for software. (yea
right!) Press Continue Anyway.
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If everything went right, it will have
correctly found the Sonic Foundry Virtual MIDI Router
(x86). Press Next to continue.
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Press Next to confirm that you
want to install the Sonic Foundry Virtual MIDI Router (x86)
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Once again Windows feels compelled to
warn you about unverified drivers. Once again well tell
Windows that we know what we are doing and press Continue
Anyway.
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At the Configuration dialog you get to
select between 1 to 4 virtual MIDI ports. You only need one
for this tutorial but feel free to select more. When you are
finished selecting the number of ports, press OK to
continue.
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Congratulations. You have successfully
installed the Virtual MIDI Router. Press Finish to
claim the rewards of your labor.
Oh yea, one last thing. Windows isn’t as
robust as a "real" operating system like Unix so you have to
reboot every time you make a change to the system. Maybe someday
Linux will take over the desktop and we will never have to
reboot our computers again. Until that day, Press OK and
go get a cup of coffee. ;-)
That's it, you’re done.
Happy Recording,
Johnny
“Roy” Rofrano
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