Hello...

Like many of you, I use BIAB in songwriting and recording. I just bought an 18 year old Digitech Studio Vocalist EX. It's a great harmonizer that can do 5 part harmony via MIDI control. And there's the problem: I can connect a MIDI keyboard to it and it works great (I have an old Yamaha E303). But no matter what I try I can't get BIAB or my Reaper DAW to communicate with it via MIDI. All I really need for my use is the note pitch, and note on and note off. (I admit to being unskilled with MIDI!)

I use a Steinberg UR22 audio/MIDI interface with my Win 10 computer, and I'm sure the problem is with the way the UR22 communicates. But I can't see anything I can change except for channels, which didn't help. Also, the Digitech Studio Vocalist EX only has the MIDI DIN connectors, not USB, which complicates things.

The Digitech unit has a MIDI indicator to show when it's receiving a MIDI signal. With the keyboard, I get a flash on the LED for both note on and note off. But with the computer, only a brief flash at each chord change on BIAB. And when singing into a mic attached to the Vocalist, I hear no vocals at all with BIAB's MIDI, but full harmonies with just a keyboard.

My end goal is to let BIAB drive the harmony part on the Vocalist EX while I concentrate on singing the lead. I'm not a good enough keyboard player to be able to play 3 or 4 note chords while singing and keeping in time and in tune.

Does anyone with MIDI experience have an idea or two that I could try?

Thanks for any help you can give!

Jim Francisco

BIAB 2020 with Reaper 6, on an AMD 8 core CPU, 16GB RAM, 240 GB SSD and 1 TB HD. Retired and trying to make some serious music, before Arthur Ritis spoils the fun.