Help Needed with Wordbuilder and SC setup

[Peterg]

Hi to all the experts out there

I desperately need help with getting WB to sing words.

I am using WB as a standalone between Cubase5.1 and EWQLSC (Kompakt). I have set WB Midi IN to Maple Midi Port 1, Midi Ch1 and Midi OUT to Maple Midi Port 2, Midi CH1.

I recorded a "Doh Ray Me ...Doh" scale on Cubase and a similar phrase on WB and set CC20 to the start of the sequence.

With "Soprano Multi R" loaded and set to Midi CH1-IN and pressing the onscreen keys in Kompakt I can hear sound from the choir, so audio is OK. (Soprano Voice Type is also set in WB)

I can see the Midi IN icon flash on CH1 IN in WB so its receiving Midi and I can see the Midi IN icon in Kompakt so its sending OK

When I play the sequencer all I hear is one sound on the last "Doh" of the scale which should be pitched at C4 but the pitch I hear is an F.

Where are the words? Where is the correct pitch?

I have spent hours trying to get WB to sing words. Everthing seems to be installed correctly and working but no words. What am I doing wrong?

Dual Core Pentium D, 3GHz
2Gig ram
200Gig HD
2x32 bit audio cards

Regards
Peter Gardner
New Enthusiast

[Sam Fischmann]

Hello,

Cubase 5.1 is quite old, and I haven't tested it here to see if it will take all the MIDI in from WordBuilder, but there's the underlying concept:

You need to send MIDI out one track to WordBuilder. The MIDI then needs to come back into Cubase and Choirs on a different port, on all channels, making sure that you don't filter out any MIDI data.

-Sam

[Peterg]

Hi Sam

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Since posting I think I have figured out the problem. My setup is correct but my midi file was recorded in the wrong range for the soprano multi I selected so I was only getting the last note of the scale.

When I shifted it up an octave I could hear my scale. Getting it to form correct words is now the new challenge but I have only been at this for a few weeks, so I am still working on that.

Do you know of any midifile/votox files out there for newbies to learn from? I would suggest that something like a "Doh ray me" scale would be invaluable for beginners at this stage.

I cannot find any examples to test this system available anywhere. If you can help here it would be most appreciated.

Peter

[Sam Fischmann]

Hi Peter,

It's best to learn from the Votox alphabet I have posted on the FAQ (http://support.soundsonline.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=2&id=55&artlang=en).

Here's some major scale solfege for you:

Do reE mE Fa So la TE Do

-Sam