Virtual Bassist

Virtual Bassist
15
ENGLISH
Setting up Virtual Bassist as a DXi2 instrument
The information in this section refers to using Virtual Bassist within Cake-
walk SONAR. We assume that you have correctly set up both SONAR and
your available MIDI and audio hardware. Should you wish to use Virtual
Bassist within another DXi2 compatible host application, please refer to
its documentation.
Proceed as follows to activate Virtual Bassist:
1. Make sure that SONAR is receiving MIDI data generated by your ex-
ternal MIDI master keyboard. You can check this visually with the
“MIDI In/Out Activity” tray icon.
2. In SONAR, open the “Synth Rack” window from the View menu.
3. Click the Insert button (or select the Insert option on the main menu).
4. Open the DXi Synth submenu and select “Virtual Bassist” from the
pop-up menu.
5. By default the “Insert DXi Options” dialog appears. To create one MIDI
track and connect an audio track to Virtual Bassist’s 1+2 outputs, ac-
tivate the options “Midi Source Track” and “First Synth Output”.
Refer to your host application’s documentation for further details.
6. Clicking the “Connection State” button in the Synth Rack will activate/
deactivate Virtual Bassist. By default this is automatically activated
when DXi SoftSynths are loaded.
7. Double-click on the “Virtual Bassist” entry or click the “Synth Proper-
ties” button in the tool bar of the Synth Rack to open the Virtual Bassist
window.
8. In SONAR, select the previously created MIDI track “Virtual Bassist”.
Virtual Bassist will now receive MIDI data from the selected track.
Make sure that the MIDI channel of the currently selected SONAR track is set to the
channel on which Virtual Bassist is to receive MIDI data.