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Musio has a new CEO, and he made a wacky 15 minute video to reveal nothing about where it all goes from here.

One of the particularly disappointing things about this is that, very clearly, what Musio needed was someone with real business acumen, who could find the right place and level for Musio in the marketplace and put it on a sustainable and consistent forward path. What we have instead is someone with no qualifications but loves music a lot. Great!

Deleted a comment before here, in case you saw it, yes I really think so!

Apart from that, how much more ridiculous can it get? The elevator music !

Honestly, if I would be in the venture capital business, and this would be a pitch towards CI and change....

Get outa here!

Democratising music, he could not have picked a worst subject and analogy. This is not the Ayahuasca church, or is it? To stick with it, from here on they will climb the M.C. Escher staircase if you ask me.

On a positive note, the stats he listed indicate that the company is back on a growth cycle at least. That's a step in the right direction.

Best,

Geoff

Musio lives!

Mic positions finally coming on April 22.

They also say Musio 2 is in the works.

I'm glad to hear it. Thanks for letting us know, Guy. You're usually my source for info about Musio and Pro Tools updates, and I always appreciate it!

Best,

Geoff

Mic mixes are here and they work! Though a) I've not stress tested yet and b) not all instruments are yet multi-mic.

I think most of the CineSeries is multi-mic, and Piano In Blue.

In Musio Connect settings you can set what the default mic positions to download are. However I think it might be a bit glitchy at the moment.

I just realised I never posted this here:

I have an issue with Musio's keyswitch implementation. You cannot adjust the root note, which is a major PITA for me as I have standardised all my libraries to start at C-1 which is controlled by a little busted but much loved Nanokey.

Here's the solution for Cubase users, via the Midi Transformer plugin:



Obviously the specific value will vary depending on where the keyswitches in Musio are for each instrument. Now they perform just like everything else in the template, huzzah.

Well done !

Thanks Guy! I've been wondering about standardising a keyswitch octave for my Nanokey.

One side question though - the Nanokey doesn't appear to be able to set a default octave, so I need to hit the octave down button a few times whenever I turn stuff on. Have you found a way to either default the octave setting or use something like midi transformer to tell Cubase to switch the octaves automatically when the midi input is a Nanokey?

dbh wrote: ↑Apr 25, 2025 1:38 am Thanks Guy! I've been wondering about standardising a keyswitch octave for my Nanokey.

One side question though - the Nanokey doesn't appear to be able to set a default octave, so I need to hit the octave down button a few times whenever I turn stuff on. Have you found a way to either default the octave setting or use something like midi transformer to tell Cubase to switch the octaves automatically when the midi input is a Nanokey?

Ah ha!

I use a stunning free little app called TransMIDIfier - https://transmidifier.software.informer.com/ . I have four midi sources - my main Launchkey, the Nanokey, an MS20iC and a foot pedal. You can apply all kinds of things to these sources, and for the Nanokey it applies a 3 octave negative shift. All four get combined and routed out to the DAWs using LoopBe.



Voila!

I have the app set to autorun on startup. The great thing about this is everything works to everywhere all at once. So if I just want to fire up a standalone something, it just works with any and every source. It's set and forget.

That is bloody marvellous!

Strangely, I couldn't do a basic input nanoKEY >output nanoKEY just changing the octave. When I had transmidifer running the nanoKEY wouldn't work in any application (e.g. Cubase or pianoteq), but when I installed loopBe and routed the output through that instead it all worked fine.

Thanks Guy - two great tips to make my life easier!

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Apr 25, 2025 2:24 am

dbh wrote: ↑Apr 25, 2025 1:38 am Thanks Guy! I've been wondering about standardising a keyswitch octave for my Nanokey.

One side question though - the Nanokey doesn't appear to be able to set a default octave, so I need to hit the octave down button a few times whenever I turn stuff on. Have you found a way to either default the octave setting or use something like midi transformer to tell Cubase to switch the octaves automatically when the midi input is a Nanokey?

Ah ha!

I use a stunning free little app called TransMIDIfier - https://transmidifier.software.informer.com/ . I have four midi sources - my main Launchkey, the Nanokey, an MS20iC and a foot pedal. You can apply all kinds of things to these sources, and for the Nanokey it applies a 3 octave negative shift. All four get combined and routed out to the DAWs using LoopBe.



Voila!

I have the app set to autorun on startup. The great thing about this is everything works to everywhere all at once. So if I just want to fire up a standalone something, it just works with any and every source. It's set and forget.

Is it possible for me to disable modwheel or pitchbend on one keyboard alone using this?

srkrishnan wrote: ↑Apr 25, 2025 9:12 amIs it possible for me to disable modwheel or pitchbend on one keyboard alone using this?

It is! Ignore CC is one of the commands, and you can set it for any input.

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Apr 25, 2025 9:44 am

srkrishnan wrote: ↑Apr 25, 2025 9:12 amIs it possible for me to disable modwheel or pitchbend on one keyboard alone using this?

It is! Ignore CC is one of the commands, and you can set it for any input.

Great. Thank you so much! Downloading right away

So... Quick question to those of you who have it, worth $149 for Musio 1? I mean it is a lot of instruments but I would need to get some extra SSDs/M2s to have room for it all.

Thomas Mavian wrote: ↑May 27, 2025 1:14 pm So... Quick question to those of you who have it, worth $149 for Musio 1? I mean it is a lot of instruments but I would need to get some extra SSDs/M2s to have room for it all.

Musio's future still feels uncertain. They have scaled down from a squadron to literally a couple of people I think. It could all fail. They have always said if that happens they will give users permanent access to the library - how this works in practice would remain to be seen.

That said, it's an awful lot bang for your buck. Tons of good instruments from the Cinesamples range. I think you can get a free trial here - https://portal.musio.com/signup

You just download what you need, inc mic positions. It's pretty slick. So if you just want a subset of main mixes always on, it's not necessarily that much storage space.

Oh, so you can download each mic on its own? That's clever.

Decisions, decisions...