I use Finale to compose orchestral music and Logic Pro to play mostly vsl software instruments from the midi sent by FInale in real time.
I currently have a setup which uses the Logic environment to allow four ports worth of midi to play in Logic in real time as I play my composition in Finale 26.
The setup in Logic involves assigning channel splitters to software instruments which are sometimes just single instances of VEPRO or multiple instruments hosted in Ensemble 7.
The big problem with this setup is that it works great for the composing process, but when I need to record the midi from Finale into Logic it won't do it. I think this is because the software instruments take midi input but only give audio output.
So to record Midi I have to use a more vanilla Logic Project in which I can only record 16 channels of Midi at a time which requires me to sometimes do as many as four different passes, and line everything up. Depending on the piece this can be very time consuming.
I tried to implement vsl's template for multiple ports in logic but while it plays from FInale's midi it does not properly record the midi; it appears to put it all on one track instead of distributing it to the different instrument tracks.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Roger Rudenstein