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Bome MIDI Translator: User's Manual 13 Tips & Tricks

13.3 Running from a USB Thumb Drive

Many users need to be mobile and sometimes need to run their setup on

other computers, or have a backup solution available.

13.3.1 Windows

If you need virtual MIDI ports, we recommend to put the installer on the

thumb drive. There is no other convenient way to install the virtual ports

other than to run the installer of MIDI Translator.

Once the virtual ports are installed, however, you can run MIDI Translator

from a thumb drive. For that, copy all contents of the installation folder (e.g.

C:\Program Files\Bome MIDI Translator Pro) to the thumb drive.

13.3.2 macOS

Installing MIDI Translator on an external disk or a USB thumb drive is not a

big problem for the macOS version. Just copy the application from your

Applications folder to the thumb drive.

13.3.3 Auto-load Settings

In order to use the same settings when running from the thumb drive as

you use on your computer, do the following:

1. Run MIDI Translator, and use the “Options|Export Settings” menu to

export your current settings to a .bmts file.

2. Save the file under the same name as the MIDI Translator app, but

with the .bmts extension, e.g. “Bome MIDI Translator Pro.bmts”.

Now when you start MIDI Translator from the thumb drive, it'll find the

same-named .bmts file and use that instead of one installed on the

computer.

13.3.4 Auto-load Project

In order to auto-load a project file, use the same trick as above for the

settings file: save your project file on the thumb drive under the same name

as the app name, but keep the .bmtp file name extension. Like that, MIDI

Translator will load that project file (if it exists) when started from the

thumb drive.