VMCI 1.22

General

VMCI (Virtual Midi Control Interface) is a freeware/donationware GUI program which allows the user to send most MIDI data to a MIDI device by means of gestural actions on the computer keyboard and mouse. VMCI is fully configurable and can give the user a total control of MIDI messages, even without any MIDI interface card and any external MIDI keyboard or controller. This program is primarily thinked to be used to control real-time versions of Csound, but it can also be used with any internal or external midi device or computer programs such as sequencers.

There are two VMCI modes:

LITE mode (completely free)
PRO mode (this mode can be enabled only by means of a magic code granted to the persons who send a donation of any entity to the author)

The features of the two modes are identical, only the number of controller available is different.

VMCI requirements:

Windows 95/98/ME or NT/2000/XP.
800x600 monitor resolution or higher.
Csound is optional, you can use VMCI also together with other programs such as sequencers etc., but the best VMCI job is reached when it is used together with Csound itself.
A virtual midi Loopback device such as HUBI'S Midi Loopback (it is optional if you don't intend to control only hardware MIDI instruments, but required when using Csound or sequencers)
A fast computer if an instance of Csound is used at the same time in real-time (Pentium II processor recommended).

VMCI features:

Four panels of completely configurable 7-bit control sliders (one panel in Lite mode). Each panel contains 64 sliders; the total is 256 sliders available (8 in Lite mode).
Two panels of completely configurable 14-bit control sliders (one in Lite mode). Each panel contains 32 sliders; the total is 64 sliders (2 in Lite mode).
Two panels (one in Lite mode) of mouse-sensitive areas. Each panel contains 8 areas; the total is 16 areas (2 areas in Lite mode). Each area can be clicked by the mouse to send two control messages a time. These areas are similar to the 'xyin' opcode of Csound.
A virtual MIDI keyboard can send midi data by a mouse click on one of the 192 piano-key-like buttons, or by pressing a key of the alphanumeric keyboard. Each key is completely configurable to send any midi-message of any midi-channel. Up to 959 events can be stored (24 events in Lite mode).
The configuration, including all slider positions and all parameters customized by the user, can be saved to a file and restored when needed (both in Lite and Pro modes).

How to install VMCI

To install VMCI you must do the following steps:

You must download the three zipped archives: The executable, the manual in html format and the VisualBasic5 runtime files (Tip: If any program written in VisualBasic5 is already installed on your computer, maybe you don't have to download and install the runtime files. So download only the executable and try to run it. Then, only if something goes wrong, that is some missing file error messages appear, let's download and install the runtime files.)
Create a directory of your choice and decompress the runtime archive in it, as well as the executable archive and the manual archive.
Create a shortcut of the executable and the HTML manual, and put them on the desktop or in the start menu.
Download and install Hubi's Loopback virtual MIDI device.
Start VMCI by double clicking its icon.

VMCI DOWNLOAD AREA

gabriel@musicaverticale.net

VMCI 1.22 executable by Gabriel Maldonado (155 KB)

VMCI 1.22 executable by Gabriel Maldonado (155 KB) (SUNSITE - Vienna University FTP site)

VMCI manual in HTML format (252 KB)

VMCI manual in HTML format (252 KB) (SUNSITE - Vienna University FTP site)

VisualBasic5 runtime files not needed if any program written in VisualBasic5 is already installed on your computer.

VisualBasic5 runtime files (1'435 KB) (SUNSITE - Vienna University FTP site) not needed if any program written in VisualBasic5 is already installed on your computer.

MIDI UTILITIES to use together with VMCI

A virtual MIDI device is needed in order to use VMCI together with Csound. I suggest Hubi's Loopback.

Hubi's Loopback

Also I recommend you to download MIDI-OX, a very useful midi monitor to view the midi message flow:

Midi-ox