Tom & Michael: There's something else to check on the topic of percussion tracks.
The metronome setting (Manage Metronome from the Studio menu) assumes track 10 (though you can specify another). - Aere On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 18:23 -0400, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Monday, April 23, 2012, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote: > > > What was happening is that (as we talked about before) we manage > > percussion-ness by managing the channel number. But as long as a track > > remains selected or armed, it holds onto the channel that it has. Same > > channel number, same percussion-ness. A track needs to re-think its > > channel number when its instrument changes percussion-ness. So I will > > make it do that. > > Let's say track 13 playing through General MIDI #13 grabs onto channel 5. > Why > does this instrument need to give up channel 5 for some other channel? Why > not just continue using channel 5, and now channel 5 is another percussion > channel? > > The only special channel is 10, which is normally set to percussion by > default. With most setups out there, it is possible to change this, so that > channel 10 is just another melodic channel, and it is also possible to set > any > other arbitrary channel to play percussion. My particular Roland can play > percussion on any two channels. QSynth with this FluidSoundfont thing can > play percussion on all 16 channels if you care to set it up that way. Most > everything out there is similar to the latter setup. > > As such, in the above scenario, it seems to me you should just add channel 5 > to the list of channels that are used for percussion, in addition to 10. > Setting percussion vs. melodic for most stuff out there is simply a question > of performing a particular bank change, frequently bank 1:0. > > I guess you could actually use channel 5 for both purposes and cycle back and > forth, just as long as you keep up with the bank changes as well as the > program changes. -- Sincerely, Aere
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