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Topic: Midi to VST isn't seeming to work at all for me.
To start I am following this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGCkZFbjGuQ

I have got an oxygen, just like the video poster. All I am trying to do is to play a VST in VDJ like they are doing, specifically Vital as well. Vital works perfectly fine when loaded into VDJ, I can play notes on they keyboard roll with the mouse, I can set the effects, have it play, do everything correct in that way. When I try to get my Oxygen Pro 49 to work with it however, nothing happens. The apparent method for getting this to work, which is to right click on the controller and select "midi to vst", does not do anything for me. I genuinely do not understand what the problem is. This should in general be the method, unless I have to program each individual key, which I'm fine with doing, however I don't even know where to start with reading VST values as a script in VDJ. It seriously just works everywhere else except here, so I'm quite confused. If there is any useful information regarding this issue, please let me know.
 
Posted 2 days ago @ 12:47 am
That's my video
I've just re-tested it, and it works fine for me

Like you say you need to send the midi though for the midi keyboard on the specific deck, and of course you need to turn on the vst "effect" that is the midi instrument
So a first test is to use the vst GUI using the mouse and see/hear that working
Then since VDJ is just sending the midi through, you need to make sure that the specific vst is working with midi keyboards and is pre-programmed to understand the codes as keys. And that midi input is also enabled.
This will work differently for each vst. For my test I used the free version of Vital:
https://vital.audio/#getvital
 
 
klausmogensen wrote :
Here is another quick test so you can see what I'm doing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZY6ThcIELE



Hey Klaus, thankyou so much for responding to me. I have followed every step in the video here, but still cannot get any midi input. In fact just for a sanity check, Vital has a standalone version you can launch, so I started it, and Vital itself perfectly accepts my midi input from my keyboard, but once loaded as a VST in Virtual DJ it doesn't do anything, even when routed to the master as you showed for example. To further test this, I hooked up what I could consider as one of the most bog standard, generic midi keyboards you can think of and tested it again. In the vital standalone setup it works fine, in FL studio, and Ableton it works fine. In Virtual DJ, nothing once again! I think there may be some kind of issue with my midi devices in VDJ now, and that your tutorial is totally correct. Somehow VDJ isn't sending Midi to VST properly, and I'm really not certain what the solution is. I may need to reach out to actual VDJ support for this. Using VDJs provided 'Midi trace' tool, it shows the oxygen quite clearly there, as well as all of the MIDI data perfectly in there too. It only stops working properly once inside of VDJ itself.