USER’S GUIDE MANUAL PDF
Welcome to the Vyzor VoiceLive User’s Guide manual. Please remember to check back at the TC-Helicon website (www.tc-helicon.com) for updates to the program and to this document.
In order to keep things efficient, this User’s Guide does not repeat information covered in the Quick-Start PDF. Please read this introductory document first. Just like this User’s Guide, the Quick-Start is available from the ‘Manuals’ item in the application menu.
What is Vyzor? It sounds like eye drops or some kind of prescription drug!
Psicraft’s Vyzor editors are advanced ‘hardware virtualizing’ ed/lib programs that run on both Windows and Mac operating systems. Featuring photo-realistic and intuitive interfaces for the ultimate in tweakability and hassle-free sound management, each free Vyzor editor gives you complete control over your instrument’s hidden features while presenting the sound architecture in a visually exciting way.
…Vyzor is not eye medicine or window cleaner. Try not to confuse these two or you'll likely have difficulties seeing your computer screen through all the tears!
What are the minimum requirements for the program?
PC Windows XP and Vista. The program can also be adapted to run on Windows 2000 (see the accompanying Troubleshooting PDF or the program’s README.TXT) but this is not an officially supported platform and any modifications to their Windows 2000 installation are exclusively the user’s responsibility.
P4 equivalent Processor and up, 32-bit color graphics and 1024x768 or larger display.
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Getting Started With Vyzor VoiceLive
Part 1: Making the Connection
Physically connecting your VoiceLive to your computer and powering them both up is the first step. Next you'll run Vyzor VoiceLive for the first time and the program will set up the MIDI In and MIDI Out ports that it uses to communicate with your VoiceLive. By default, this process is entirely automatic: Vyzor will
‘AutoSense’ and select VoiceLive's MIDI In and MIDI Out ports whenever you run the program and you’ll be able to get down to business editing your VoiceLive right away. If you find that Vyzor is unable to find your VoiceLive or if you don’t want the program opening all MIDI Ports and searching for your VoiceLive whenever you run it, you are free to manually configure the program for use with VoiceLive. To do this, please check out the APPENDIX 1: Manually configuring Vyzor VoiceLive at the end of this User’s Guide.
Immediately after the program has configured itself on start-up, it will request all the data from your VoiceLive where it will be available for navigation, editing, auditioning and (of course) saving to your
computer’s hard drive and other storage media. These saved files are called Sets, and each one is essentially a ‘backup VoiceLive’ waiting to be restored to life as either a ‘virtual VoiceLive’ when loaded in the editor, or as a real VoiceLive when it is transmitted (or SYNC’ed) to the physical device connected to the software.
Part 2: The Application Window
When you first install Vyzor VoiceLive, the application window is completely dedicated to the VoiceLive editor GUI:
The ‘virtual VoiceLive’ shown above is exactly that: It represents an entire VoiceLive, consisting of the following data:
• A Preset Bank containing 99 Presets,
• A Song Bank containing 49 Songs,
• A Setup containing all VoiceLive’s master settings,
• An editing buffer containing one preset loaded from the Preset Bank for editing, and
• An editing buffer containing one song loaded from the Song Bank for editing.
4 The SET File View
Because Set Files are so important, there is an optional view to the application called the Set File View. This view is activated from the application’s Options Menu: Simply check the Set File View item and you’ll see this ‘side-car’ view open to the left of the editor GUI.
Any Set files you save will be shown in this view – Simply double-click on any entry to load it into the Vyzor Editor.
The MIDI Monitor
There may be times when you want to see the MIDI messages that are being generated by Vyzor and/or your VoiceLive as part of their communications. In times like these, the MIDI Monitor is there for you: Simply check the MIDI Monitor item in the Options pulldown and you’ll see this ‘side-car’ view open on the bottom of the editor GUI.
6 The Collection View
The collection view is the most useful of the three optional views: The collection acts as a global listing of your favorite presets and global settings that remains available no matter which set file you have currently opened. This makes the Collection View as equally useful as both a transfer clipboard and a master library of individual preset, song and setup data.
To transfer any bank entry to the Collection, simply drag it from the Bank window into the Collection.
Likewise to transfer a collection entry to the editor, simply drag it back into the editor. If you want to copy the currently loaded preset to the Collection, hold down the ALT key and click down the mouse on any area in the editor where there isn’t a control and ALT-drag the preset to the Collection.
Unlike the bank view (which automatically loads any selection you make for editing), the collection allows you to audition your selection without directly loading it into the editor GUI. This means you can hear each preset in the collection by single clicking on them in turn, but your current edits will not be disturbed. Pretty cool…
If you actually want to replace the currently edited preset, song or setup with one from the collection, simply double click on the item you want to load from the collection.
There are a couple of rules governing the drag and drop operations that are possible between the Collection and the Editor GUI, and we’ll get into them later on when we cover the Editor GUI in greater detail.
You don’t have to drag a collection item into the editor if you only want to audition it: When you click on the item Vyzor will automatically load it into VoiceLive’s editing buffer for instant auditioning. If you decide you also want to edit any collection item in the editor GUI, simply double-click on it and it will load for editing and also be auditioned at the same time.
When you first install Vyzor VoiceLive, the Collection will be empty. Then as you add items to it from the Editor, the Collection will initially store them sequentially, with newer entries always located closer to the bottom of the listing (Windows only). On Mac OSX Tiger and Leopard, the collection will always be sorted in alphabetical order. Windows users should note that if they click on the ‘Name’ header of the Collection this will also sort the collection alphabetically and the original ordering will be lost. A good rule of thumb is to simply use the Collection alphabetically whether you are on Windows or Mac.
The entire collection is stored as a single file on your hard drive called Default.SQC: If you ever want to archive the collection, this is the file to back up.
The Default.SQC file is located in the \Psicraft\Vyzor VoiceLive\TC-Helicon VoiceLive subfolder of your user documents folder (on both Windows and Mac).
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Part 3: The Editor GUI
The Vyzor VoiceLive editor features a compact and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) that represents the programmable parameters of your VoiceLive for quick and easy editing. As can be seen above, this GUI is organized into four basic areas:
1. The Preset/Song Display
2. The Editor Mode Selector Buttons 3. The Mode Detail Area
4. The Status Bar
We’ll now explore these four areas in greater detail.
1. The Preset/Song Display
This part of the GUI Layout changes depending on whether a Preset or Song mode is active.
Here is the Display when PRESET mode is active:
And here it is when SONG mode is active:
When BANK mode is active, the display area will match the Bank page you have selected for viewing (either Preset or Song). In SETUP mode the display always operates as it does in PRESET mode.
Common Display Controls
The following controls are present in both the Preset and Song Displays:
The top row of the common area consists of an Edited indicator and three data storage/transfer buttons.
When the Edited indicator lights up, this lets you know that you have edited the current Preset or Song, and need to store the Preset (or Song) to the appropriate bank if you want to make these changes permanent.
The Store, Store In & Sync buttons allow you to perform storage operations: Store will store the edits to the Bank location currently shown (which is 26 in the example above), Store In will store the edits to the Bank location that you select from its dialog, and Sync will act like the store button, with the extra function of writing the edits to the matching bank location within your VoiceLive. For more information on how these buttons work to manage VoiceLive data between your instrument, computer and hard drive storage, please check out the companion PDF ‘Data Management with Vyzor VoiceLive’, which is also available from the application’s ‘Manuals’ menu item.
The bottom row of the common area features a selector control and a name control. If you double or right- click on the selector control (or single click on its triangular icon) it will launch a pop-up list of the available presets (or songs if in SONG mode) to select for editing. The name control launches a dialog when clicked that allows you to rename the current preset (or song).
10 PRESET Mode Display Controls
The following controls are present in the Preset Display:
The Voices controls allow you to see and edit the gender assignments of each harmony voice in the current preset. Hint: Each head edits like a knob.
The Preset Type controls allow you to see and edit the Harmony Mode, Root and Type parameters of the current Preset.
The Harmony Note Display is a read-only control that indicates the notes that are valid according to the current harmony mode.
These toggles indicate the on/off status of the current preset’s Harmony, Correct, Thicken and FX.
SONG Mode Display Controls
The following control areas are present in the Song Display:
The Length control allows you to edit the song’s current length. This parameter governs how many steps are available for editing.
The Step/Preset/Key/Chord (or Scale) controls allow you to choose a step for editing and then change its linked Preset and Key/Chord (or Key/Scale). These controls provide basic song editing even if the editor is in Song BANK mode.
The Direct Step controls allow you to see and edit the current song’s A, B, C & D Direct step
assignments.
3. The EDITOR MODE Selection Buttons
The EDITOR MODE Selection Buttons switch the Vyzor VoiceLive editor GUI through its four modes.
4. The MODE Detail Area
This area of the editor GUI provides editor controls specific to the current mode.
We will now step through each of the editor modes and explore the layout of each one.
PRESET: Pitch & Vocals
The PRESET Mode’s Pitch & Vocals page shows all controls relevant to the harmony generation & pitch correction capabilities of your VoiceLive.
The Pitch tab group governs the Harmony, Thicken and Pitch Correct processing modules of your VoiceLive, while the Vocals tab group gives you individual control over each of the four virtual voices generated by the Harmony section.
12 When the Harmony mode is set to Scalic, the SHIFT MAP sections of each vocal section give you precise control over the mechanics behind the scalic harmony generation of each voice. You’ll note that each note in the shift map is laid out like a note on a chromatic 12-tone keyboard (such as on a piano), with the black keys in the top row and the white keys in the bottom row.
Root Shift Map Layout Description
C Layout is chromatic 12-tone (piano) keyboard: C to C
F Layout is chromatic 12-tone (piano) keyboard: F to F
A Layout is chromatic 12-tone (piano) keyboard: A to A
Each control in the shift map is interpreted as follows: The note position of the control indicates the specific note that VoiceLive will hear in the course of your singing – When this note is ‘heard’ by VoiceLive in your vocal signal, the vocal in question will ‘sing’ the note shown in the control. It’s that simple. For example, let’s consider the shift maps displayed in following illustration:
All shift maps have been set to the default values of the C Major 1 scale set in the Harmony Section. Since the harmony root is C, all four shift maps display as C to C.
According to the shift maps shown above, if you sing a ‘C’, VoiceLive will generate the following notes in response:
Vocal Voicing Shift Map Generated Note
1 -1 Octave -1C C in the octave lower than your voice.
2 -6th -1E E in the octave lower than your voice.
3 +5th G G in the same octave as your voice.
4 +1 Octave,+3rd +1E E in the octave higher than your voice.
This all makes perfect sense when you sing a C. What about when you were to sing a C#, however – What would VoiceLive do then? Simply look at the C# note within each shift map layout to find out!
According to the shift maps shown on the previous page, if you sing a ‘C#’, VoiceLive will generate the following notes in response:
Vocal Voicing Shift Map Generated Note
1 -1 Octave -1C# C# in the octave lower than your voice.
2 -6th NC The last note generated by this voice.
3 +5th NC The last note generated by this voice.
4 +1 Octave,+3rd NC The last note generated by this voice.
When NC is displayed by a shift map control, this indicates that the note is outside of the current scale, and therefore NO CHANGE (NC) will be applied to create the harmony voice. This simply means that if you were to sing a C to C# progression, VoiceLive would start by generating the four notes on the previous page (-1C, -1E, G, +1E) and then when your vocal pitch moved to C#, VoiceLive would only change the first generated note to -1C# while keeping the other three at -1E, G, and +1E respectively. In addition to displaying the shift maps generated by your scale and interval selections, each of the shift map controls is editable, allowing you to create custom shift maps that do not match any standard musical scale.
PRESET: Effects & Foot
The controls shown in this page of the PRESET Mode allow for detailed setting of the Reverb and Delay effect
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The Mix page of the preset mode is a complete visualization of the various signals within your VoiceLive.
Note that this page is not limited to displaying and editing only preset parameters. For example, all of the parameters under the Global Routing & Mix section are in fact global parameters and will affect every preset you load for editing.
SONG
The SONG mode consists of a single page with two tabs: The Steps tab displays all the steps of the currently loaded Song, while the Real-Time Song Control Buttons tab contains controls that allow you to audition the song’s steps as you build them.
The Step tab’s controls are very straightforward to use: There is a numbered panel for each step in the song.
Each of these panels contains a preset selector, key/root and chord/scale controls. Clicking on any of the panels will load the step in the Song Display area along the top of the editor window (not shown above since this is outside the mode detail area).
The Real-Time Song Control Buttons tab provides real-time song auditioning tools, but these require that you do the following before using them:
1. Put your VoiceLive into song mode by holding down the correct foot switch1 for a second until you see
‘SNG’ displayed on VoiceLive’s front panel LED display.
2. Ensure that the CC-Control parameter (found in the SETUP editor) is set to Advanced.
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previous page are met), you can now step through the current song in real-time and your VoiceLive will be automatically stepped along for interactive editing and auditioning.
Unfortunately, VoiceLive does not generate any MIDI messages when its STEP- and STEP+
front-panel footswitch buttons are pressed, so you cannot use your VoiceLive to control this feature.
BANK: Preset Bank
The BANK mode consists of two pages: The Preset Bank page allows editing of the Preset Bank, while the Song Bank page edits the Song Bank.
The Preset Bank page is a view into a ‘virtual’ Preset Bank of 99 VoiceLive presets that serves several purposes: Firstly, it allows you to select new presets for editing by clicking on them. Secondly, it allows you to reorganize the presets within the bank area with drag and drop operations, and thirdly it allows you to send selected presets to your VoiceLive where they will replace the corresponding locations in its onboard preset bank, and also allows you to request selected presets from your VoiceLive’s onboard preset bank.
BANK: Song Bank
The Song Bank page is a view into a ‘virtual’ song Bank of 49 VoiceLive songs that serves several purposes:
Firstly, it allows you to select new songs for editing by clicking on them. Secondly, it allows you to reorganize the songs within the bank area with drag and drop operations, and thirdly it allows you to send selected songs to your VoiceLive where they will replace the corresponding locations in its onboard song bank, and also allows you to request selected songs from your VoiceLive’s onboard song bank.
By default, drag and drop will swap the source preset with the destination. CTRL-C (Option-C on Mac) will copy the current selection to the clipboard and CTRL-V (Option-V on Mac) will paste it back over any new selections you make; SHIFT-Drag will insert the source after the destination, and it will also move back the bank entries in between the two in order to fill the hole left behind by the source.
Whenever you select one or more entries in either bank, the GET SELECTED and SYNC SELECTED buttons will become visible: These allow you to GET (request from VoiceLive) the corresponding bank entries or to SYNC (send to VoiceLive) the selected bank entries, thereby replacing the corresponding entries in
VoiceLive’s user bank.
18 At this point we’re going to elaborate on the warning above by looking at an illustration shamelessly stolen from this Guide’s companion PDF called ‘Data Management with Vyzor VoiceLive’2:
Check out the grey box entitled VoiceLive on the left: See the 99 green squares inside the grey box? These represent the 99 presets that live in the PRESET BANK onboard your VoiceLive. Now look at the black box entitled EDITOR in the middle of this illustration: Another set of 99 green squares, right? These represent the 99 presets you are changing whenever you edit within the bank editor.
In this illustration, it’s clear that the presets often start out as copies of each other (such as immediately after you’ve uploaded a SET to the editor from VoiceLive, or immediately after you’ve downloaded the User Bank from the editor to VoiceLive). As soon as you continue working in the editor, however, each edit you perform will introduce a difference between VoiceLive’s preset bank and the Editor’s preset bank. This is not necessarily a bad thing, though: It means you are free to mutate the bank within the editor to your heart’s content or load new SET files and the preset bank onboard VoiceLive remains untouched.
2 This PDF is accessible from the Vyzor application’s ‘Manuals’ pull down menu and is recommended light reading if you really want to get the hang of how the Vyzor VoiceLive editor really works.
Because Vyzor constantly updates the preset edit buffer on VoiceLive as you navigate through and update the editor’s preset bank, you may be fooled into thinking the editor’s bank is actually the bank onboard VoiceLive – This is why we refer to the editor as a ‘virtual’ VoiceLive: You can navigate through the user bank in the editor and perform all kinds of reorganization within the bank entries while dragging new presets in and out of the Collection and your VoiceLive will faithfully audition the sounds as you select them as if these sounds were the onboard bank – The important thing to remember is, unless you specifically command the editor’s user bank to replace the one on VoiceLive (with a SYNC PRESET BANK), the actual bank in VoiceLive is completely safe from overwriting. This means your all-important gig sounds are safe from erasure unless you really want them replaced.
For even more advanced bank management, activate the Collection view (Options->Collection View in the program menu): Then you can also drag and drop presets between the bank and collection view.
To recap then, when you are working in the Vyzor VoiceLive editor you are operating on copies of preset data from your VoiceLive, and not on the original data itself. This means you are free to rewrite the currently loaded set in the editor window from top to bottom and unless you SYNC the Preset Bank back to the VoiceLive at the end of your session, your original bank of 99 presets on board the device will remain safely untouched. Likewise, when you load a preset for editing through the Vyzor GUI, only the VoiceLive’s editing buffer is updated with the edited preset data. This allows VoiceLive to constantly ‘audition’ your changes to the current preset so you can test out each edit you make in real-time. Unless you press the Sync Preset to VoiceLive button within the editor GUI, the edited preset will not be written to your VoiceLive’s ‘permanent’
memory in its onboard User Preset Bank.
There are three great advantages to this approach that are not possible in simpler ‘direct’ editor programs:
1. VoiceLive’s User Bank is protected from accidental overwriting at all times,
2. Every set file you load into the editor gives your VoiceLive an entirely new User Bank without first erasing any part of VoiceLive’s onboard User Bank, and
3. You can safely ‘audition’ any preset from any part of the software by single-clicking on preset entries within the preset bank or the collection view.
‘Auditioning’ Explained
Vyzor refers to the process of loading a preset to the device’s editing buffer as Auditioning the preset. This makes sense if you think about it from the perspective of your VoiceLive: Every preset you load into VoiceLive’s editing buffer will change VoiceLive’s influence on your vocal sound, and this will be an audible difference.
20 Bank Editing
The Bank Editor serves as more than just a preset selector – It also allows you to edit the ordering of the presets with drag and drop operations and with standard copy and paste commands.
Drag and Drop Operations
Drag and drop operations in Vyzor VoiceLive’s bank editor work as follows:
• If you drag any preset in the bank to another location, the source and destination presets will trade places. This is a Swap Operation.
• If you hold down the CTRL key while dragging and dropping, the source will be copied over the destination. This is a Paste Operation.
• If you hold down the SHIFT key while dragging and dropping, the source will be moved into the destination’s location and the bank entries between the two will be shifted back 1 place in order to fill the hole left behind by the source. This is an Insert operation, and here is an example of how it works:
While these are the default key combinations, you can also configure the program (from the Preferences dialog’s Drag and Drop (Int) parameter in the Bank Edit tab) so that either the Paste or Insert drag and drop functions are the standard option instead of Swap. In these cases, the Swap operation will become associated with the key combination normally used for the new default operation.
Parent-Child Link Management
By now you have probably noticed the little yellow ‘page’ icons displayed on certain presets in your bank:
Vyzor displays page icons on any preset that is used by one of the songs in the editor’s Song Bank. Preset 17 (Jazz Gals) is used by the Song Birdland: You can see this for yourself if you open the Factory Set file supplied with the editor and hover your mouse over Preset 17 while watching the status bar along the bottom of the application window.
Note that there is a noticeable delay between when the bank first loads and when the link data is displayed – This is because Vyzor must scan each step of every song in the Song bank (30 x 49 = 1470 links in all).
Because any one Song can links to up to 30 Presets (one per song-step), Vyzor treats the Song as the
‘parent’ of the linked Presets (which are treated as the ‘children’). Not only does the icon indicate that a Preset is in use by a song so you don’t accidentally delete it, the Vyzor editor software also automatically updates the parent song’s step settings whenever you move any child preset of it to a new location. This is a very useful feature, even if it does slow down drag and drop operations a fair amount (especially on Mac OS X Tiger). If you wish to speed up bank operations, you can disable Parent-Child from the Preferences menu.
SETUP
When SETUP mode is active, the Mode detail area of the Vyzor VoiceLive editor GUI changes to the layout shown above.
Every single global setting in your VoiceLive is accessible here: As was mentioned in the Quick-Start guide, however, some of these will affect the proper functioning of the editor software (Event Filter, MIDI Channel,
& CC Control), so be careful when you edit these parameters.
4. Status Bar
The status bar is a helpful area where the tool-tip hints of the currently ‘hovered’ control is shown. To see this in action, simply move your mouse over a control in the editor GUI and watch how the status bar is updated with the control’s name, current selection value and descriptive text.
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APPENDIX 1 : Manually Configuring Vyzor VoiceLive
As was mentioned in part one of this user’s guide, Vyzor VoiceLive automatically configures itself to use the correct MIDI ports and then uploads VoiceLive’s user bank, global and edit buffer every time you launch the program. While this is the default configuration for the program, you are free to manually reconfigure the program, which may be more to your liking once you’ve mastered how it operates.
There are four basic options that are turned on in the program as defaults:
• Auto Load Sets: When checked, Vyzor loads a Set from VoiceLive each time the program is started.
• AutoSense on Program Execution: When checked, Vyzor automatically attempts to determine the MIDI ports and SysX communication channel that it uses every time the program is started. If this option is not checked then you must manually configure the settings using the Settings dialog.
• AutoLoad Temporary Elements when Create New Set: When checked, Vyzor loads a set from VoiceLive whenever a new file is created.
• Auto Save and Reload Session: When checked, Vyzor automatically saves the set on program exit and reloads this set the next time the program is run.
NOTE: If the ‘Auto Load Sets’ option is also checked, the session reload will not take place – A new set will be loaded from VoiceLive instead.
Rather than just showing you what to uncheck, we’re going to explain the background details, starting with Geek Facts 1 and 2 from The Midiot's Guide to the Studio:
Geek Fact #1: One USB Cable equals many MIDI Cables. By connecting a USB cable between VoiceLive and your computer you are actually connecting two virtual MIDI cables: One from
VoiceLive's output to the computer's input and another from the computer's MIDI output to VoiceLive's input in one step.
From your computer operating system’s perspective, the virtual MIDI cable coming from your
VoiceLive appears as a MIDI Input Port, and a MIDI Output Port. These ports will be available to any music software that supports MIDI, which includes sequencers, DAWS and of course the Vyzor VoiceLive editor program.
Geek Fact #2: Computers often have 'hidden' MIDI Ports. It's true. Even if you don't have other USB MIDI devices connected, your computer may have 'virtual' MIDI ports that address things like your Sound Card's game port or that cheesy onboard synthesizer chip that bad websites love to fire up unexpectedly. These MIDI ports will always be visible to music software as possible selections in addition to the ports that VoiceLive presents to your computer’s operating system whenever the USB cable is plugged in, no matter your taste in web design.
We’ve related these two geek facts to prepare you for the fact that before you can use your VoiceLive with any piece of music software, you’ll need to select one or more appropriate MIDI IN ports and MIDI Out ports within the software’s configuration dialogs.
As was mentioned earlier, Vyzor VoiceLive is set by default to automatically do this task for you when you first start using the editor, but after you become more proficient using your VoiceLive, you’ll likely want to do more sophisticated things with it, and that’s when the information in this section of the User’s Guide is
essential for you to know.
The Vyzor MIDI In Ports Dialog (MIDI->MIDI In Ports… Menu)
THE MIDI IN PORTS DIALOG ON WINDOWS XP (WITH A CLASS COMPLIANT MIDI PORT SHOWN)
The MIDI In Ports dialog is where you select the MIDI port(s) that you wish the editor to connect to. By default, the ‘Always Start with All MIDI Ports Open’ option is checked because this allows the AutoSense routine to check every MIDI port that is available to your computer. If you have disabled AutoSense in the Vyzor preferences menu, you should uncheck this option to avoid conflicts with other music software installed on your computer that you may want to run simultaneous to the Vyzor editor.
It’s important to understand that your computer operating system refers to these ports as MIDI IN ports purely from its own perspective, not from VoiceLive’s: This means that the MIDI IN Port called USB Audio Device is actually connected to the MIDI OUT port on VoiceLive, and the MIDI Out Port called USB Audio Device is actually connected to the MIDI IN port on VoiceLive. Don’t worry – This is not as confusing as it sounds. Just remember that from the computer’s perspective, these two ports are the input port that brings
24 On Windows Vista and Mac OS X, the MIDI Port names are always considerably friendlier than Windows XP:
On these operating systems you’ll be able to tell the VoiceLive MIDI ports from others that your system may have available. Simply click on the port to selected it and click on the OK button: Just remember that if you want the program to recall these selections every time it runs you’ll also need to uncheck the ‘Always Start with All MIDI Ports Open’ option as well.
The Vyzor MIDI Out Ports Dialog (MIDI->MIDI Out Ports… Menu)
THE MIDI OUT PORTS DIALOG ON MAC OSX
FOR WINDOWS
XP
As explained previously, Windows XP refers to VoiceLive’s MIDI In Port and MIDI Out Port as USB Audio Devices, which can get quite confusing, especially if you have more than one class- compliant USB MIDI device connected to your PC. In this situation the USB Audio Devices will be numbered, and (unfortunately) the ordering of each device’s ports will differ from model to model, so be alert when you are trying to determine which one(s) to select.
Additionally the MIDI Out Ports numbering order on Windows XP is often different than the MIDI In port numbering, so please keep this in mind when configuring the MIDI ports manually.
Multi-Client Driver Support
In the world of MIDI device drivers, multi-client operation is very desirable: Multi-client MIDI drivers can be opened and used by more than one software application at a time, allowing multiple programs to share attached MIDI devices. While Apple’s OS X class-compliant MIDI drivers are multi-client, the equivalent Microsoft class-compliant MIDI drivers on Windows XP & Vista not multi-client: This means that you won’t be able to use Vyzor to edit your VoiceLive while another program is accessing it (such as your favorite DAW or sequencer program).
WINDOWS XP & VISTA
If you have the ‘Always Start with All MIDI Ports Open’ option checked for use with Vyzor’s AutoSense features and you have other non-multi-client MIDI devices connected, this will cause conflicts with any other MIDI software you are running. In this situation, you should disable this option and configure Vyzor manually to work with your VoiceLive.
Disabling the Automatic MIDI Port Management (AutoSense) Feature
If you need to disable the AutoSense feature, the relevant program options can be found in the Preferences dialog within the Studio tab:
