
        -  VERY IMPORTANT  NOTES  - 
 
 Before Installing MED - PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS 

               (again and again)

After you have installed MED v2 the very first time you run the
program it will scan (seek for) the VSTi's in the MED Soundstudio
VST folder, there are a few free VSTi's allready in that folder but
if you want some excellent VSTi's that work great with MED Soundstudio
then browse to: http://www.linplug.com/Download/download.htm

The obvious first one to download is the FREE Alpha3, simply run the
exe file and install it into your MED Soundstudio vst folder then run 
MED, open the song/instrument properties and select the VSTi button.

You will see that at the bottom of that instrument properties window
the "VSTi Properties" section has become active.

Now select the "Plugin:<empty>" button and you will see a list of 
available VSTi's - (if you have downloaded/installed the above 
detailed FREE Alpha 3, select that one), or, select one of those
listed and then hit the "Edit" button.

Your chosen VSTi program will then open for you to experiment with. 

Select the "OK" button on the instrument properties window and you will
be left with your chosen VSTi program window on top of the MED Soundstudio
window, to play around with your chosen instruments, first select the
MED Soundstudio window and press one of the keys (on your keyboard)
and you will hear the sound being produced by your chosen VSTi program.

Whilst that sound is being played, you can select the VSTi window and 
using the controls, adjust the sound until you are happy with it, then
select the MED Soundstudio window again and the activate the "E" 
(EDIT) button, you can then enter your chosen VSTi effect into MED.

(you really ought to Download/install that FREE Alpha 3 and try that)

If you have the money, you are advised to buy the Chrono X3 VSTi from
linplug (link given above), as it really works great with MED.

(no I don't get paid for pushing that program)  
 
If you want to add other VST folders, go to the MED Soundstudio Menu
and select Settings/VST System, you can then add other VST folders.


For those of you to be UNFORTUNATE enough to have locked/protected VSTI's


PLEASE NOTE that If you add a vst folder containing protected VSTi's
( Ilok/Synchrosoft/WASP for example ),a window will open saying 
"debugger detected" , and MED will be forced to shut down by that
locked VST and the next time you launch MED Soundstudio it will
shut down immediately and no longer run.

To cure this, go the the MS Windows Start/All Programs and move 
your mouse pointer to the "MED Soundstudio 2.0/MED Help" and you
will see a file called "Refresh VST configuration", simply click
on it and you will then be able to launch MED Soundstudio again.

If you want to use those locked VSTi's you will require a special 
replacement MED.exe to work with those protected VSTi versions.

To obtain that special version, browse to:

www.medsoundstudio.co.uk/special.htm 

and fill in the form, we will get back to you as soon as 
possible on how to obtain the replacement that will accept
your locked/registered VSTi's

Or you can simply continue trying the free VSTi's included with
this trial and when you register, you will find that your locked
VSTi's will function correctly.



(If are not using locked/protected registered VSTi's this will not affect you)


When MED Soundstudio is running and you select a VSTi, on some
occaisions, the window relating to that VSTi may open 'BEHIND'
the MED Soundstudio window, this is unavoidable, so if you
launch a VSTi program and you do not see that programs 
window, either resize the MED Soundstudio window or temporarily
select it's windows minimize selector and you should see that
programs window.


         Users without ASIO supported soundcards

If you do not have a soundcard that offers ASIO, simply
download/install the ASIO4ALL drivers and you will then
be able to use MED's ASIO facilities by selecting ASIO 
from the MED menu Playback/Settings window.



One word of warning, ASIO4ALL is set by default to resample
everything to 48kHz, if your soundcard is set to 44.1kHz,
you may have to alter the ASIO4ALL settings, to do this
simply open the ASIO4ALL control via the MED menu/playback
audio settings, untick the ASIO4ALL section which says:
 
"Allways resample 44.1kHz <-> 48kHz"


You should really only add another programs VSTi folder path
to MED using the MED Soundstudio Menu/settings/VST System
but if you do add your own VSTi's to the MED vst folder, don't
worry if you decide to uninstall MED as any files that you
have added, (were not installed by the MED installer itself)
will not be deleted, (same goes for any mods/samples/MIDI
files that you have added).
In this case, after you uninstall, you will see that the
folders with your own work in are still held in the
MED Soundstudio folder (it has not been deleted) so it
will be up to you to delete the folder after you have
dealt with your own named files.

Please realise that MED Soundstudio is a very complicated
piece of sofware and the correct settings for your system
and soundcard is required for everything to work smoothly.

If you are unable to get your settings right, please sign
up to the MED Mailer, (you can do this via the MED Menu/Help)
once signed up, simply make a post giving us your setup, 
and explain the problem you are having, we will do our 
very best to help you.

MIDI is still not sorted completely, however,
“Complete” MIDI support is being worked on now,
if you register this v2 you will be able to download
Free v2 updates as they become available, you can,
of course, wait until the update with full and complete
MIDI support is available, but we expect that once it
has been sorted, the registration price will increase
so you will be better of registering now!
(up to you of course)





 Ray  Dec 2008



 
