How to send MIDI out from VCV Host using Module 'MIDI Over Audio'

[stoermelder (Ben)]

That’s funny and interesting, I‘ve implemented „MIDI as audio“ as a helper module some time ago, but for use with Expert Sleepers hardware modules (sends MIDI data encoded over an audio channel, more or less)

MIDI drivers in plugins?

As it got mentioned in the development blog: Here is a first look at the MIDI driver. Each instance (up to 4) of the ES MIDI module creates 8 ports in the MIDI driver. The output ports should be connected to the Expert Sleepers 8GT module. It is essentially the same as “CV to MIDI” but this way you can send any MIDI message using the existing modules. For debugging porposes I created a specialized scope to review the bits of the encoded MIDI messages. [Img…

I think sending out MIDI from a VST to a custom Rack MIDI driver could be the most elegant solution, this way you can reuse all existing MIDI modules and it is quite easy to write a MIDI driver in Rack. This would be a nice built-in solution for VCV Host, @Richie
In one of his live streams Andrew spoke about future updates of VCV Host and he said next would be VST3 support (which was released in the meantime) and after that MIDI output will be added. Maybe we will see such function in Host soon.