When I tried the development version of Rosegarden, I tried it with both
"fixed" and "auto", and it didn't seem to affect it. However, I think I
changed that setting just prior to exporting the MIDI file (not before
changing the channel).
- Aere
On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 00:17 -0400, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On 09/06/2012 11:20 PM, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote:
>
> > There has always been a separate conductor track in RG exported MIDI.
>
> There's the problem then, Tom.
>
> He wants to get all the stuff on channel n by assigning everything to
> instrument n. There is no direct way to set the channel, but choosing
> instrument #n with the channel fixed to it ought to do the job.
>
> Now we apparently export a separate conductor track. I didn't even know
> that. (I just never use standard MIDI files, and everything I've done
> of any consequence for the past 10 years is in .rg format.)
>
> The MIDI export logic probably just grabs channels on a first come,
> first serve basis and starts with 1 for the first track, which is the
> conductor track, then increments from there. The result I'd expect to
> see is that we always export stuff to use channel n+1, with n never
> attainable unless n >= 2.
>
> What we could do about that, I can hardly imagine. Maybe just export
> the conductor track *and* the first real track in the composition on
> channel 1. Maybe.
>
> (Bear in mind I'm using "end user" MIDI channel numbers where they're +1
> relative to the actual numbers we use internally. 0 is 1, 1 is 2, etc.)
>
> I think that's the gist of it anyway. Just popping in, and not studying
> anything at all.
>
--
Sincerely,
Aere
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