How to set OM playback through external soft synth on MacOS X

[aliser]

From: Georgia Spiropoulos mail@georgiaspiropoulos.com
Subject: Re: OM Playback questions
Date: February 25, 2014 9:06:11 PM GMT+01:00
To: Aliser Sijaric aliser@lol.ba

Hi

your synth softs will not be recognised directly in OM. In my configuration I use a new midi port wich is the midi out of OM and the midi in my soft synth.
See the images attached.

It’s not so complicated.
Good luck
Georgia

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[cobivantonder]

Does anyone know how you might send out midi from open music to an external synth/sequencer (for example Ableton Live) AND be able to maintain microtonal information in tact?

I know about the bm microton as a functional player for this specific goal in OM, but I need to develop my microtonal material in an old fashioned arrangement. I also know it’s possible to export the xml - for example to Sibelius, then the score displays correctly but again, I can not hear the micro tuning as Sibelius is not interpreting it.

Simultaneously, it would be great to send Sibelius midi arrangement back to bm microton, but when I do, again, the microtonal info seems lost!

[haddad]

Hi Claire

First you should launch the external application (LIve, or whatever),
then you’ll need to use the IAC bus. (maybe you should activate it in the apple midi/audio setup).
And check it in Live also as midi input. ( I dont have live, but most of applications use this).
Then select your port to the IAC bus (c.f screenshot)

After that for the microtones, you should send the pitchwheel msg in order to detune your synth (c.f OM tutorial 10).

Best
K