VMI provides public computers for cadet use in some academic buildings, the Barracks Study Room (available 24/7).
The Barracks Help Desk provides technical support for cadets including password assistance, troubleshooting, and repair of cadet-owned computers.
Loaner laptops are provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrives in 10-20 days and carries a 90-day expiration).įor assistance ordering a laptop, contact the Barracks Help Desk at (540) 464-7888 or purchasing a recommended model, a loaner laptop is available to users who experience equipment issues.
With Dell onsite coverage, laptops may be serviced by VMI certified Dell technicians). Dell is giving a $200 gift card with the Dell purchase, so you may want to use that for purchasing your Dell accessories (to be used after purchase is made of the laptop.
Recommended PC Dell Laptops (Includes 4-year on-site warranty. To turn other instruments off, hover the mouse over the instrument name in the “Input” row shown in step 7 and select the power button that appears on the left.Mechanical Engineering Majors - Windows PCīuilt-in or external with built in microphone (headset/earbuds recommended)Ĥ Year on-site service support with accident damage coverage If any other instruments in the Channel Strip are on, then they will play with the newly installed instrument. The instrument is now playable via MIDI input. In this case I am selecting the Black Grand Medium Ambience 1. Select the instrument drop down menu as shown in the following image and select the instrument that you installed. If the window does not appear, click once on the center of the Input instrument drop down box that you just selected where it now displays “EXS24”. This will be in the Channel Strips portion of the window.Ī window will appear for the EXS24 Instrument as shown in the following image. Select the “Instrument” drop down box in the “Input” column of the newly created instrument as shown below. MainStage 3 cannot be open during installation or it must be restarted.Īdd a new channel by selecting the “+” button in the upper right hand corner.Īdd 1 instrument with the settings shown in the following image. For this tutorial, I am creating a new concert using the Keyboard template. Open MainStage 3 and create a new concert or open an existing one. Place the instrument folder like the one shown in step 1 into the “Sample Instruments” folder. The “Audio Music Apps” and “Sampler Instruments” folders should have been created when MainStage 3 was installed, however they should be created if they do not exist.
The full file path to the Sampler Instruments folder is /home/current_user/Music/Audio Music Apps/Sampler Instruments, where “current_user” is the name of the user’s profile. Within the “Music” folder, open the “Audio Music Apps” folder, and then the “Sampler Instruments” folder as shown in the following image.
Go to your user home folder and open the “Music” folder. In this case, the instrument is the Sampletekk Black Grand Medium Ambience. The instrument folder that you need will contain files ending in “.exs” and another folder containing all of the individual audio samples. Installing EXS24 Instruments in MainStage 3.ĭownload your instrument and unzip all files.
Used in this tutorial was MainStage 3.0.3 and Mac OSX 10.9.3 This tutorial is for installing and using EXS24 instruments in MainStage 3. Now, a thing that peopla are a bit unaware of, is the fact that you can load your EXS24 instruments into Mainstage! Here's a short tutorial written by John Maroli. It's packed with instruments, effects and other goodies. Mainstage is a great application, (only available for Mac), that turns your Mac into a workstation to use both live and in recording situations.