[I’m sure that this is going to get an “Ugh, another noob!” reaction and you’re right, but I’ve honestly tried to search for solutions to this, and I honestly don’t even know how to ask the question, so I apologize in advance,]
I’ve connected my Casio CTX 2400 to my windows box running VCV (probably latest, or close enough), and things are fine. Except that I can’t get polyphony. I’ve got the midi module set to read all channels, and polyphonic MPE mode, and I’m using polyphonic cables. But when I add another key on the casio (i.e., add a poly note in the desired chord), the VCV stops playing the previous note, even thoough I’m holding both down. I don’t know if it’s the CASIO failing to send correctly (nor how to fix that), or some additional thing I need to do on the VCV end – again, I think that I’ve got everything set to polyphonic, and the cables are thick, suggesting that it’s also thinks it in poly mode, but something’s clearly wrong somplace. (BTW, if I run the Casio with local on, it plays the multiple notes, of course, but the VCV still cuts off the last note when the next one is played.)
Thanks in advance for your guidance, and sorry again for being anoob luser.
Thanks. I did that before. That isn’t the problem. (Of course, as soon as I posted this, I figured out the problem, or at least a work-around.) The problem is (or at least this work-around) is that I need to use “rotate” mode, not MPE, then each new note that the CASIO sends goes into the next channel, and I can split and mix them, or just sum them, into the result. But thanks!
Ah. Well, good question. So I’m not sure if this is required, but I go from the MIDI (in rotate, 8 channel mode) through an organ module and then to the VCV split, thence an 8 channel mixer then a reverb (makes the church sound of a pipe organ) and finally to output. This works fine. I added the split and remix in process of my experimentation; It helped me visualize what was going on. But I’m getting from your question that I probably don’t need the split and remix steps.
Yes, you shall know them by the girth of their leads
(polyphonic ones are fat, mono ones skinny) so check (to the OP) the widths of leads at all times to make sure you haven’t inadvertantly gone from poly to mono
As long as the modules you are using are polyphonic. When you use a monophonic module in the chain there will be problems.