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terry
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VS is silent!
« on: Jun 14th, 2004, 7:20pm » |
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I have just bought Harmony Assistant with Virtual Singer. Everything was fine until I
started experimenting with different sounds, e.g. using MIDI outlets for various
instruments.
But now when I play pieces with voices, e.g. the demos, the accompaniment sounds but
Virtual Singer does not. I have checked to see that its output is Digital but this does not
work.
Have you any suggestions please?
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Sylvain Machefert
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Re: VS is silent!
« Reply #1 on: Jun 14th, 2004, 7:36pm » |
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Is the melody you want to be sung by VS played by an instrument ?
When you open the VS palette, is the little top-left led red or green ?
If red, click on the bird to activate VS.
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Re: VS is silent!
« Reply #2 on: Jun 15th, 2004, 10:06am » |
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No, the line is for voice, (digital) and the led is green.
No matter which piece I import, including demos that came with the program, VS is silent.
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Re: VS is silent!
« Reply #3 on: Jun 15th, 2004, 10:14am » |
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Hi,
On the VS palette, the singer icon on the stage is active ? (not in purple)
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Re: VS is silent!
« Reply #4 on: Jun 15th, 2004, 2:51pm » |
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On the VS palette the singer is active (not purple).
I tried deactivating her and I heard a flute-like sound perform her line. Activating again produced silence.
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Re: VS is silent!
« Reply #5 on: Jun 15th, 2004, 2:55pm » |
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Are you sure you are using digital output to play instruments, not MIDI ?
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Re: VS is silent!
« Reply #6 on: Jun 15th, 2004, 3:19pm » |
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on Jun 15th, 2004, 2:55pm, Olivier Guillion wrote:| Are you sure you are using digital output to play instruments, not MIDI ? |
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When you edit the instrument of your staff, do you see "MIDI 1" (or 2 or 3) on the top-left just under instrument name?
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Re: VS is silent!
« Reply #7 on: Jun 15th, 2004, 3:27pm » |
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Weird things are happening. I import a new MIDI file consisting of 4-part choir and organ. The program asks me which parts to allocate to text and I indicate this. I start Play and see a progress meter computing voices. But I hear only the organ.
I examine file associations and see to my surprise that everything is MIDI 1. I change them all to Digital and play again. This time I hear nothing!
Is it time to reinstall Harmony Assistant?
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Re: VS is silent!
« Reply #8 on: Jun 15th, 2004, 3:38pm » |
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Hi,
If you use the latest version, installing again will do strictly nothing.
(I don't understand this reflex of Windows user to reinstall when they have a problem...)
What are you calling "file association" ?
What happen when you play a .mus file (not midi), for example a demo document provided with the program ?
Check your digital output level in your system setup.
Check the sound card driver you selected in HA hardware setup.
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Re: VS is silent!
« Reply #9 on: Jun 15th, 2004, 4:15pm » |
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Well, I would have thought reinstalling would give me the program in the state when I first had it, which was perfect!
However ....
By File association, I meant Instrument relate to output device. Sorry.
I have checked through your last list of suggestions and have found the problem. I have two sound cards on my computer and must have tried using the second one and forgotten this. Putting it back to the main one has solved the problem.
Thanks to everybody who tried to help. It was purely my fault - a memory problem, fairly common these days as today is my 82nd birthday!
Best wishes
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Re: VS is silent!
« Reply #10 on: Jun 15th, 2004, 5:20pm » |
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on Jun 15th, 2004, 4:15pm, terry wrote:| Thanks to everybody who tried to help. It was purely my fault - a memory problem, fairly common these days as today is my 82nd birthday! |
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A Happy Birthday to you!
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