Hi all great to see mg3 coming along. Ive used mg2 for years hosted in protools using “Bluecats patchwork” mainly for post processing of recordings. Ive just tried MG3 after failing with it in the summer and found I needed to set up differently. With mg2 I bussed my guitar to an aux track with Patchwork with MG2 loaded sending midi to an instrument track and it just worked. With mg3 i got the “no audio input error” unitl i created a new audio track from an active input and put it in record but muted with a prefade bus send to the Patchwork aux and it works.
Im using macosx Monterey with 2024.6 PTools and a metric halo interface though it will work the same using an aggregate device for post processing.
Looking forward to playing with it standalone to experiment with all the new stuff
mick
A minor correction to my experience above using Patchwork as a host - having an audio input in record is only neccessary to open the MG3 plugin without it the plugin actually works ok but on opening the plugin i get the no audio input error plus a weird 1024 buffer error though im on 256 in Protools. I understand protools isnt an aim but still pleased it works though i do look forward to using higher sample rates
mick
I use MG3 in standalone mode with Pro Tools. Just select the MIDI Output MIDI Machine on a chain and MG3 will show up as a MIDI input in Pro Tools. I have even been able to setup a routing folder with the VI and 7 Instrument tracks in it with defined MIDI input and output channels to use MPE. No weird latency issue going this route.
You can select and save all of these tracks as a track preset. And then when you change to a new instrument, all of the instrument track midi out assignments change as well. It is not ideal, but at least it works until Pro Tools gets MPE support some day (fingers crossed! 
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And here is a screen shot of how I have MG3 set up.
I have 3 chains set up, one in legacy with no bends (pianos), one with legacy and bend range 2 (most AAX instruments), and one with MPE and bend range 48. Each of the chains is also set up with legato at 13ms (thanks again @JamO, life changing for me!) and 2 transposer, one -1 octave and one +1 octave. Those 3 and the chain toggle on functions are connected to a foot controller so it is very easy for me to change how I want my controller to work for what is needed. I might try to make a few videos on how I have my rig set up closer to the end of the year when my day job is not in the way.
Gil
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