Godofredo Romero wrote:
Thank you for your response, now can you walk me through this process,
step by step.
GR
OK.
1) In the Windows menu, of the menu bar, select the "instruement list"
2) Select "display by staves", if the instruments are not already
defined that way.
3) Place the cursor for one of the staves over the column designated
"instrument".
4) From the Drop down list, select "New Instrument".
5) Edit the Instrument name, from Instrument0 (where 0 represents any
digit) to the name of the staff (Top staff)
6) Change the item in the MIDI channel box to some number (except 10,
which is reserved for percussion) other than the one for the other staff.
7) If the In the small, "Program change" box, type the same number as
was in the far right "Program" column of the instrument list on the
other staff.
8) Click OK.
You don't need to do the following step for this to work, but I'm detail
oriented:
9) In the staff containing the old instrument, place cursor on the
"Chan" column, and in the buttons in the lower box of the instrument
list dialog box, select "edit instrument", and change the name of the
other staff.
The end result, is that you will have two staves, with "different", but
identical instruments, each on its own MIDI channel.
The reason that this is important is that some playback commands, like
"tempo" affect all staves, but others, like "8va", and "loco" affect
only the channel upon which they are applied. I suspect that if I were
to examine your instrument list, that the two staves are both set to the
same General MIDI instrument (Piano), and assigned the same MIDI
channel, and that whatever expression you have defined, when
encountered, affects all sounds assigned to the same channel.
ns
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