Rendering Midi Data To Sound

I’m using GigaStudio to trigger samples from the Vienna Symphonic Strings Library, and while playing the song in Renoise I can hear the sounds, but not when rendering. What do I need to do to be able to render MIDI data I’ve put in Renoise’s pattern editor to sound?

I don’t have a MIDI keyboard (though I don’t believe that matters), and the MIDI properties for the instrument triggering the sounds in GigaStudio is set to “NemeSys MidiOut: Port 1”. I’ve tried putting “828mk2” (my audio interface) in the MIDI in and out settings in the config, but that didn’t help either. What am I missing?

It sounds like you send midi-data to trigger the GigaStudio’s own sound engine.
Thus just sending plain MIDI data from within Renoise to an equal external MIDI device like any available synth or sampler.

And as Renoise does not render the sound from external devices… i would try to figure out how you can configure GigaStudio not to use it’s own audio engine but send it to it’s host (Renoise).
That is if you have GigaStudio as a VSTI device in Renoise.

Thanks for the suggestion, but no, I’m running GigaStudio as an external application. Should I be loading it into Renoise instead? How do I do that?

Well, I’ve just found out how to record the MIDI data coming into GigaStudio into sound using the audio capture feature in GigaStudio, but is this the only way of doing it? Seems a bit tedious to me.

I’m don’t know gigastudio really, but I thought it was standalone only, not a VST. Maybe someone else can enlighten you here. The other option is that you get a VSTi that can read your giga sounds like vsampler. Or you can record the sound in gigastudio somehow and then use that wav in your Renoise song.

Edit: seems like you were one step ahead :)

Usually, if GigaStudio has a VSTI plugin for it’s sampler, you’re supposed to use that one.
If it doesn’t…(But i can’t imagine that actually)

The new Gigastudio 3 has Rewire support (too bad Renoise doesnt :)).
You can also use Giga VST Adapter.

Thanks, this looks great. :) Am going to check it out.