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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