Help with MG3 HEX & NETWORKING (WIN 11)

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Hello fellow Jamosapiens!

I’m not really a tech-savvy person when it comes to certain things… :sweat_smile:

Could someone be so kind and please make a step by step guide for using MG Networking on Win 11?

All I basically want to do is get Boss SY-1000 MG3 HEX Midi into Cubase 13 via Networking, but I’m obviously doing something wrong… :wink:

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So, How far did you get?

  1. Open MG3 in Standalone
  2. Choosing the Hextracker (under Select Tracker)
  3. Making the relevant Audio settings (under Audio devices)
  4. Setting up: “NETWORK ENABLED” should be visible (under Plugins) (Restart after)
  5. Putting the “MIDI Caster” on a Chain (From the Tools Menu)
  6. Open Cubase
  7. Open the MG3 plugin on an Audio track, and set it to “MIDI Guitar over Network” (in Select Tracker)

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As always, I am on a Mac, and am using Ableton here to doublecheck, but this works for me. :+1:

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For completeness a few additional pointers:

  • generally you should use the VST instead of networking. But networking can probably be easier to set up than a VST because you avoid routing up 8 channels in the DAW.
  • this scenario is most practical if you don’t need the SY1000 on the DAW side, i.e. you have another interface for the DAW.
  • it can also be useful if the DAW struggle to balance loads or to achieve lower buffer sizes.
  • at the moment there is no resampling, so the SY1000 must run at the same sample rate as the DAW. I’ll try to fix this if anybody actually will use this.
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Thank you @LofiLeiF @JamO! :pray:

Turns out I was always loading the VST and not the VST3 version in Cubase… :sweat_smile: (Finally added the VST3 version being seen in Cubase…)

In the VST version (which I always wrongfully loaded and which was the only one shown in Cubase up until now) there is no way of selecting tracker, contrary to the VST3 where selecting tracker is possible. :+1:

Hence my complete confusion regarding what should be a very simple procedure. :wink:

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can the caster cast to multiple receivers?

i was trying to setup two instances of mg3 in ableton and it seems that only the first sees the caster output.

i don’t know if i would really need this, it was mainly to deal with ableton’s midi routing limitations.

also i guess it would be used when setting up things like hex fuzz in ableton (three mg3 instances would be required to split the strings out onto individual tracks).