Noatikl faq
- How or where do I get noatikl?
- Where can I hear some example music created with noatikl?
- How do I install noatikl?
- I want to get started quickly - where are the video tutorials?
- Where is the manual / user guide?
- What Sequencers support interactive MIDI?
- Should I use the standalone or plugin version?
- I've got keyboard problems with Noatikl VSTi and Noatikl DXi/MFX under Sonar 6...
- I've got timing problems with Noatikl VSTi under Sonar...
- Do you have a VST MIDI Effect for Cubase on the Mac?
- Directing MIDI out
- I hear silence, help!
- How or where do I get noatikl?
Thanks for your patience!
Noatikl V1 will be available for download on the 9th December. We hope you will enjoy the product when it is released.
There is an extensive online user guide that you can check out if you want to see what is coming!
» top - Where can I hear some example music created with noatikl?
See the tutorials page for how to find some great examples of Noatikl in action!
» top - How do I install noatikl?
See the installing Noatikl page for how to install the various Noatikl variants on your system!
» top - I want to get started quickly - where are the video tutorials?
See the tutorials page for a lot of video tutorials on using noatikl!
» top - Where is the manual / user guide?
- What Sequencers support interactive MIDI?
- Should I use the standalone or plugin version?
- I've got keyboard problems with Noatikl VSTi and Noatikl DXi/MFX under Sonar 6...
Sonar 6 currently (as of Sonar 6.2) has buggy handling of keyboard events for VSTis and DXi/MFX plug-ins, and the Noatikl plug-ins are affected by this to some extent under Sonar 6!
The symptoms are that when using the Noatikl VSTi in Sonar 6.... various keys don't respond until you release them; and then also appear in UPPER CASE rather than lower case. These keys include the following: abcdefghiklmnopqstuvxz ...
We have logged this as a bug with Cakewalk. If it annoys you (and we're sure it will!), then do please feel free to ask Cakewalk when they'll get around to fixing the problem!
We think the reason is that historically not many plug-ins have great support for keyboard handling. We've worked hard to put great keyboard handling in noatikl; and some operations such as naming Voices etc. of course rely on typing on your keyboard.
Note that in Sonar 6, the VST host window includes a new button on the top right of its toolbar, which says on the tooltip "Give all keystrokes to Plug-in". However, enabling this seems to make no difference at all to the plug-in behaviour...!
If you have problems where, for example, you want to name a Voice with lower case 'a' characters, but keeping seeing 'A' instead, then consider using the standalone version of Noatikl to change the name before re-opening in Noatikl VSTi under Sonar!
» top - I've got timing problems with Noatikl VSTi under Sonar...
Sonar's VSTi host adaptor implementation seems to has a pretty sloppy interpretation of MIDI event times generated by VSTi plug-ins such as noatikl.
The solution to this problem is for you to considering sending MIDI data from Noatikl VSTi to Sonar via a MIDI Yoke port, rather than sending them directly through the MIDI sequencer pipeline. Believe it or not, this gives far better timing accuracy when you hear noatikl's music render by your Sonar-hosted software synths!
Alternatively, you could use the DXi/MFX MIDI Effect version of Noatikl (although Sonar doesn't allow for flexible MIDI event routing from DXi/MFX MIDI effects, which is very irritating!); or use the Standalone version of Noatikl with MIDI sync and MIDI Yoke; or even use the Noatikl VSTi under a different host with far better VSTi implementation, such as Reaper! » top
- Do you have a VST MIDI Effect for Cubase on the Mac?
We are not currently planning on doing one of these. Mac Cubase users should use the VSTi plug-in.
» top - Directing MIDI out
Whichever variant of Noatikl you use, you will need to specify the MIDI output device to which Noatikl sends its MIDI data.
If you are running within Cubase SE 3 or other sequencers which do not support MIDI routing from one VST to another then, you must, select any value other than "Sequencer MIDI Pipeline" (otherwise you will just hear silence). If you are using Sonar 6, Reaper, or some other VSTi Host which allows MIDI data to be routed from one VSTi into another one, then you may select any of the available options though you are most likely to want to select the "Sequencer MIDI Pipeline" option.
The MIDI Effects Noatikl Plug-in variants list the same options as you get for the VSTi. You probably want to select the Sequencer MIDI pipeline option, though you can use one of the other options should you so wish.
See the installing Noatikl page for how further information on how to configure the various Noatikl variants on your system!
» top - I hear silence, help!
See this entry in the Noatikl User Guide!
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