John,
We've gone over this before but you may not have understood correctly.
In *Finale* MIDI Setup -- *not* in GPO studio -- in the first "Output Device" box (the one for MIDI Channels 1-16), first select "GPO Studio: 1". Then, while holding down the "shift" key, in that same box, select "GPO Studio: 2". The Output Device box should now say "GPO Studio: 1, GPO Studio: 2."
You can continue to do this for the following three Output device boxes, so that the second one contians "GPO Studio: 3, GPO Studio 4", etc. That way you can load all 8 GPO Studio "players," for a maximum of 64 instruments on 64 MIDI channels.
Now, this is *important*, so listen up: for this to work in Finale, you have to have to take two additional steps.
1) You have to go into GPO Studio and edit the channel assignments for all the *even-numbered* players. So, go to GPO Studio Player 2 and change the MIDI channel for the first slot from "1" to "9". (Do this by clicking and holding on the little MIDI icon just below the "CPU Usage" box.) Go to the second slot in Player 2 and change the channel from "2" to "10," go to the third slot and change the channel from "3" to "11" and so on all the way down the line. Now do the same thing in GPO Studio Player 4, GPO Studio Player 6, and GPO Studio Player 8.
2) Now, for *Finale* purposes, you have to remember that the MIDI channels Finale uses are *NOT* the same as the ones you just set up GPO Studio. In GPO Studio, once you have completed step 1, all of the odd-numbered players will have instruments on channels 1-8, and all of the the even-numbered players have instruments on channels 9-16. But for *Finale* purposes, in the Instrument List, every instrument needs its *own* individual MIDI channel which is not shared by any other instrument. To make this happen, in Finale's MIDI Setup, you already told Finale to assign MIDI Channels 1-16 to GPO Studio Players 1 & 2, Channels 17-32 to GPO Studio Players 3 & 4, Channels 33-48 to GPO Studio Players 5 & 6, and Channels 49-64 to GPO Studio Players 7 & 8.
That means, in *Finale's* instrument setup, if you want a staff to play back using the instrument you have loaded into the first slot of GPO Studio Player 1, you assign that staff to Channel 1. If you want it to play back using the instrument you have loaded into the first slot of GPO Studio Player 2, you assign that staff to Channel 9. If you want the first slot of GPO Studio Player 3, use channel 17. If you want the first slot of GPO Studio Player 4, use channel 25. If you want the first slot of GPO Studio Player 5, use channel 33. And so on.
I've posted the following chart before -- I will post it again, but you may want to save it for future reference:
GPO STUDIO FINALE MIDI CHANNEL Player 1 1-8 Player 2 9-16 Player 3 17-24 Player 4 25-32 Player 5 33-40 Player 6 41-48 Player 7 49-56 Player 8 57-64
Hopefully all of that makes sense, John. Good luck.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
On 20 Mar 2005, at 8:22 AM, John Bell wrote:
On 20 Mar 2005, at 13:01, Gerald Berg wrote:
Load slot 1 with player one -- then hold shift and load player 2 into same slot.
You mean: load another instrument into the same slot? If I do that the 1st instrument is lost and is replaced with the new one.
John
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