Hi guys

In TH3 Cakewalk edition, I am trying to set up a foot controller to operate a Wah pedal.  However, TH3 is not receiving the MIDI.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Create simple instrument track with Strum GS2 (Instrument does not really matter) and TH3 in its effects bin - enable input monitoring
2) Enable MIDI in on TH3 effect
3) Create MIDI only track and configure MIDI out of this track to point to MIDI in of TH3 - enable input monitoring
4) Open GUI of TH3 and insert and AMP and a cabinet with a Wah pedal in between the AMP and the cabinet
5) Configure both the simple instrument track and MIDI only track to receive MIDI from PCR-800
6) Playing the PCR-800, I can hear the Strum GS2 with the TH3 affecting the sound - including moving the Wah pedal with the mouse to effect Wah  -so MIDI is making it to Sonar
7) Right click on the TH3 Wah pedal to initiate MIDI learn.  While the TH3 is listening for MIDI data, I move the foot controller (twice as per on screen instructions.  The meter of the MIDI only track is indeed moving as I move the foot controller on the PCR-800 
8) After clicking "ok", TH3 reports that no MIDI data was recorded

As a test I created an automation track on the TH3 Wah and remote controlled this with the MIDI data from the foot controller and this worked (Would be a workaround)

As another test, I replaced the TH3 Cakewalk edition with another VSt3 effect (Meldaproduction Harmoniser), enabled MIDI in on that. Then I configured MIDI out of the MIDI only track to point to MIDI in of Meldaproduction harmoniser.  The Meldaproduction Harmoniser was able to receive MIDI in from the PCR-800

So, for some reason on my system, the TH3 is not receiving MIDI data.  It's also possible that this is a limitation of the Cakewalk edition as opposed to the full version.

Note: Configuring TH3 Cakewalk edition as synth does not change the above behaviour.

Just wondering if someone can confirm that this occurs on their system as well.

I already reported it

Its a known issue. Overloud will be fixing it likely in their next update.

thanks

 
 
I received a reply regarding a TH3 midi assign question:
 
In order to do so, you should enable the "Program Changes recall presets in current bank" option in the "MIDI" window as shown in the image below:
 
                       
 
As the tooltip says, when this option is enabled, the reception of a MIDI Program Change will load the corresponding preset in the bank that is currently selected.
 
Unfortunately, at the moment this is not working for the VST3 format and we are already working on fixing it, so if you need to control the TH3 plug-in with MIDI, you should use the VST2 plug-in instead until a further update resolves the issue.
 
My follow up to this reply is how does one access the VST2 format version?

boblettnoe
 
My follow up to this reply is how does one access the VST2 format version?

I think they're telling you to use TH2 Producer.

TheMaartian

boblettnoe
 
My follow up to this reply is how does one access the VST2 format version?

I think they're telling you to use TH2 Producer.

Actually, as I was remembering that (shhh) Ableton Live 9 still isn't VST3 compliant I checked on a reinstall that there indeed is a VST2 version.  I did a custom install only picking the VST2 version this time, and Ableton now loads it fine. I haven't checked about the midi input situation in Sonar with the VST2 version of TH3.

As I noted in another post, 3 days ago I got a message asking if I wanted to download the new version 3.1.6 of TH3.  I installed it and couldn't get Midi prog changes to work so I reverted back to previous version 3.0.5 which works.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com...bindings-m3411580.aspx

Did this issue ever get resolved?

Yes, some time ago. I just tried sending MIDI to TH3 Cakewalk in 2016.12. Worked OK.