How do you get an external KB to work w/ Dimension Pro?

OK, never mind. Looks like no one has figured this one out yet.
Guess it's too early to find a lot of expertise with this product
Anyway, I did find a way. Seems kludgy as all get out but it works.

Thanks

Thanks for the reply!
Out of curiousity, how *do* you set it up for anything else?
As I said, the way I found is pretty kludgy and if there's a better way, I'm interested.

Thanks

Indeed. fac is correct.
There is nothing special the way Dimension Pro works... it's exactly like any other soft synth. It's not that no one has figured it out, it's that there isn't really anything to figure out that's particular to Dimension Pro.

I don't use Digital Performer either, so I can't tell you how to do it, unfortunately.

I would look in the Digital Performer manual or help regarding how to insert a soft synth and how to route midi to it and how to route audio out of it. Perhaps the Digital Performer forum (I'm assuming there is one) would be a good place as well. Since DP is a Mac app, it's unlikely you'll find a great many people here who use it.

I use Logic Pro on the Mac with Dimension Pro and Rapture, and both plugins run as Audio Units in Logic.
I use an Edirol PCR-M1 to control my Logic synths, and here's the basic rundown of what I do:

Install Logic Pro & Dimension Pro & Rapture
Install the drivers for my midi interfaces and controller keyboards
Start Logic Pro
Make sure it's configured to recognize my midi and audio interfaces
Select an audio instrument track (what Logic calls them)
Set the midi input for the audio instrument track to my Edirol PCR-M1 midi port
Set the audio output for the audio instrument track to my audio output (Presonus Firebox)
Set the instrument for the audio instrument track to Dimension Pro or Rapture
Select a patch/part/sound on Dimension Pro
Play Keyboard

There should be something similar in Digital Performer.

Good luck,
- zevo

Do either of these help?

http://www.garritan.com/DP_GPO_tut.html
http://www.ramp.pdx.edu/tuts/DPRecord.htm

I suspect that if you substitute Dimension Pro for GPO in the first one, it should hook you right up. They're using DP 4.1, but should be similar.

- zevo

I don't use Digital Performer, so I am not sure of how it works, but in Logic, you don't set up a MIDI track and 'point it to the controller', there are special kind of MIDI tracks called Audio Instruments... Check to see how Performer handles virtual instruments. I could be misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you are selecting the Kawai MIDI track and hoping to trigger the softsynth on another track? Again, I've never used Perfromer, but it would be very odd if that was the way it worked. Usually you just select the softsynth track and if your controller is set up properly, it just plays.