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Viscount organ is not sending midi messages to Hauptwerk. Please help! (3 replies and 15 comments)
Can you please tell us what model Viscount you are trying to connect with hauptwerk? Did you run through the hauptwerk process to learn the organs midi code? That asks you to press bottom and top notes of the manuals and pedals in a certain order. Regards
David -
I have Cadet-31S(30), 3-year-old. I tried to use Midi Learn but it didn't work. Maybe it's because a new motherboard is not fully compatible as the pistons don't work, as well as midi buttons? The engineer fitted it a few days ago, it was sent from Viscount.
OK I think I understand you want Hauptwerk voices to play from the Cadet internal speakers? You can not achieve that using the midi in. You need to take the headphone output from your pc and feed that back into the Cadet amplifiers. There are 2 audio in sockets in the same place as the midi cable connections. You need to connect to those. Regards David
Maybe not. I plugged the headphones in to a Presonus audio interface, and didn't want hauptwerk to use the digital organ's internal speakers. But I think midi is not working on the viscount organ.
But if I connect audio cables from presonus interface into the viscount audio sockets, would I still require midi or not?
No You only need midi out from the organ to drive the Hauptwerk organ. You must have established that connection for the Viscount instrument to be generating the sound in the headphones. Is Presonus a keyboard or an audio interface?
PreSonus is an audio interface. Btw, I was contacted by the reseller company owner I bought the organ from, that Viscount sent the wrong circuit board to the engineer. That's why the pistons and midi buttons don't work. That's what I suspected that the board was not compatible with my viscount model. He is now waiting to here back from Vscount company. That made my day today.
Sorry to learn of that mistake. That should not have upset the midi code and the fact it played in headphones confirms the code was being sent.. You still need to get the audio signal back to the organ and midi does not do that. Regards David
Look, you can hear the virtual organ sound by just plugging the headphones into the PC, with no audio interface or midi cables. I tried it with Miditzer earlier - I had no audio interface or no midi connection from the Viscount at that time, yet I heard the theatre organ in my headphones plugged directly into PC.
Hello sorry for the delay in replying. Perhaps you can call me at the office in Bicester as I continue to be confused. How are you playing the hauptwerk model without any midi interface? Are you using a mouse to play individual keys perhaps. We need to take this step by step as connecting a Cadet organ to play hauptwerk is usually very straightforward. I am in from about 10.00 tomorrow morning. Regards David
Just another thought for you. The midi channels are turned on and off using a thumb piston so if we have sent out an incorrect cpu which has not got the pistons configured correctly it may be that at the moment you can not activate the midi to send the commands to your hauptwerk model. Regards David
Thanks, David. I hope that the culprit is the wrong circuit board. Just to correct - CPU (central processing unit) is a PART of the circuit board, the same as on a computer motherboard.
Indeed the CPU is the main part of the organ which is located on the motherboard with other peripheral cards for various subsidiary functions.
Hi there. If you're still having trouble with MIDI, you could try this..... I found out that at least one model that I met has the MIDI polarity REVERSED! Try hooking up a cable with the connections crossed over. I only discovered this using an oscilloscope to confirm a signal was indeed being sent.
No, the culprit was the wrong circuit board sent by Viscount. Then, they sent another board which was also wrong. Now the engineer already has the right one, but he's been unwell last week. So, I'm still waiting for the problem to be resolved, hopefully.
Hi David. The correct circuit board is not fitted in, all buttons and pistons are working as well as MIDI. I can now play the Haupwerk organ and there is a substantial delay, I'm not sure why. My PC is quite old - 6GB RAM and Intel Quad processor. Any advice? Thanks
Sorry I meant is NOW fitted!
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Hello,
Please could you advise on this issue? I've installed Haupwerk on my Windows PC, installed the driver for my PreSonus audio interface, connected two midi cables - organ midi out to presonus interface midi in, and organ midi in into interface midi out. Plugged USB cable from presonus into PC. All cables were connected, I heard virtual organ's sound in my headphones (connected to presonus), so hauptwerk was working. I don't know what I have missed. On the digital organ in midi settings set up channels: pedalboard - channel 1, great - channel 2, swell - channel 3. The same did in hauptwerk settings. What else needs to be done that I haven't done? Also, the motherboard was replaced on viscount organ yesterday, and after that none of the pistons don't work. Maybe that is the reason why midi is not working? Please help all who know midi very well.