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To enable a MIDI controller in macOS:
1 If DaVinci Resolve is running, quit before connecting your MIDI controller and
setting it up.
2 On macOS you’ll use the Audio Midi Setup utility to choose output hardware and
select a speaker configuration to be made available on your system. In the Finder,
use Spotlight and search for Audio MIDI Setup to open it.
3 In Audio MIDI Setup, choose Window > Show MIDI Studio. A window showing icons
for all connected MIDI controllers appears. Your controller should be showing an icon.
If it’s not, you may need to install drivers for it.
4 Select the icon for your controller and turn on the “Enter test MIDI setup mode” button
(it looks like a little keyboard) to test if your keyboard is connecting with the computer.
If it is, then turn this off.
For more information on setting up MIDI on different systems, see the DaVinci Resolve
Configuration Guide, available on the web from the Blackmagic Design support page at
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion.
To set up the Fairlight page for VSTi instrument recording using a sampler:
1 Open DaVinci Resolve 15.
2 Make sure you have at least two available audio tracks in the Timeline, one for the
instrument you’ll be playing, and one to record into. This example will use tracks
A4 and A5 for this.
3 Open the Effects Library, find a VSTi sampler you have installed on your system, and
drag it to the track header of the track you want to use for playing, for example track A4.
Massively-featured sampler/synth combinations such as Native Instruments Kontakt
and Steinberg Halion are ubiquitous and useful when you want to specifically map a
collection of sound effects to specific keys or pads to create re-usable multi-purpose
instruments. However, more streamlined samplers that emphasize automatic audio clip
slicing such as Serato Sample (Windows and macOS) or Image Line Slicex
(Windows only) can make short work of the more specialized task of loading library
sound effects recordings (or custom recordings you create) with multiple footsteps,
punches, keyboard presses, cloth rustles, or other foley activities, and quickly splitting
them up into individually playable samples you can trigger with pads or a keyboard.
4 When the VSTi interface window appears, open the MIDI menu at the upper right-hand
corner of the VSTi window and choose the correct MIDI channel from your MIDI
controller’s submenu. If you’ve selected the correct MIDI channel, the instrument
should start responding to the keys or pads on your controller.
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