As a typical musician, you likely have many midi devices such as keyboards, guitar effects, drum machines, voice processors, and more. You will find it helpful to catalog all of your Midi commands and optionally send those midi commands from your PC desktop to your midi devices (the same Midi commands that are sent from your Midi device.) For example, assume you have a performance where every song requires a different keyboard patch, drum pathch, guitar patch, guitar volume, .... With MidiControl, you can define groups (bookmarks) by song and list all the midi commands to setup each song. Using your PC desktop, you can send the Midi commands to all your midi devices to setup for the next song (patch changes, controllers, ...) Alternatively, as shown in the example screens, each bookmark can represent a Midi device and the Midi commands used to control the device.

To start, connect all of your midi devices to your computer via a Midi hub (which you have likely already have done). Next, download, install, and configure MidiControl (FREE!). When configuring midi control, define (song or midi device) groups (bookmarks) for each midi device and/or song. Next, setup the midi commands used by your midi gear (keyboards, pedal boards, effects processors,...) As needed, press the 'Send' button next to each Midi command to control your midi hardware. A script of midi commands is being considered for the next release. You now have a simple means to control all of your Midi devices from your PC!

VST's are virtual instruments that run inside your DAW. The sound of the instrument is generated by the VST. This is the key takeaway; the VST creates the sound (tone) of the instrument inside your DAW. VST's are typically expensive, require a license, requiring an internet connection, and the burden of VST's on the computer's CPU can be severe. MidiOrganize is purposely not a VST. It is designed to work outside your DAW, with high end sound modules, such as the Roland Integra 7 SuperNatual Sound Module or the more affordable Yamaha MU15 Tone Generator. For maximum flexibility, you can continue build your DAW project using VSTs, but when performing or building a final mix, you may opt to disable the VSTs on your Midi tracks and send the Midi data to your superior external Midi sound module such as the Roland Integra 7 SuperNatual Sound Module. The sound quality of the Roland Integra 7 SuperNatual Sound Module must be experienced to believe!   MidiOrganize follows the 'drill down' look and feel of most popular drum VSTs. If you understand the drilldown structure of the most common drum VSTs, MidiOrganize will feel very natural.

Assume you currently use one of the many popular Drum VSTs (which I dare not mention here). Most drum VSTs typically are very expensive, must be licensed, require licensing software to run on your PC, require your PC to be connected to the internet when used, and (the most irritating issue) place a heavy burden on the CPU introducing latency and popping in your final mix. This VST CPU 'burden' can significantly drags down the processing power of your CPU slowing EVERYTHING that is running on your PC!   MidiOrganize keeps your PC and DAW processing power optimized by the eliminating the CPU burden of the VST (and license required internet connection). As an example, in your DAW Midi drum track, rather than routing the drum Midi data to your VST, route the drum Midi data to your external Yamaha MU15, by opening the tack's routing output dialog box and rerouting the drum MIDI data from the VST to the external Midi Yamaha MU15. (see the thumbnail image below)

My Windows 10 music PC is optimized with 32 gig memory, 3 x 1TB M.2 gumstick drives, Intel 7 CPU, and Reaper DAW software.   I typically start to see performance degradation after loading a base VST, a piano VST, and a drum VST. VSTs have benefits and conveniences, but I prefer to limit my VST usage, which optimizes my Reaper performance with the added benefit of superior instument sounds. In this scenario, you route your Midi data to your external Roland Integra 7 SuperNatual Sound Module or the more affordable Yamaha MU15 Tone Generator and route the Roland Sound Module output to an analog input track in Reaper.    With MidiOrganize, you drag and drop drum patches from MidiOrganize into your DAW (Reaper) Midi (drum, piano, bass, guitar,,...) tracks. Additionally, MidiOrganize has a patch preview feature allowing you to hear / preview the track before importing to Reaper. Midi Organize is a stand alone PC application. During setup, you specify the directories of all your drum loops. In this Reaper scenario, my final audio mix is free of chop, pops, and dropouts due to heavy VST memory usage and the final mix quality is noticably superior! I can now run Reaper reliably on a minimal laptop without a required licensing network connection!