Hey, I know the FINALE list is all so busy discussing everything but FINALE,
but his guy had a question.

> I am pretty bad in understanding how midi works, having been always
> interested in music typesetting, but I have a problem here and I
> don't know what to do.
>
> The composer wants me to export de music so that every instruments
> will appear in midi in the same order as the score (39 different
> instruments) so that he can assign himself the proper instruments.
> I've tried to assign a different chanel to every instrument (39
> chanels) and when I open the midi file in Finale, to order in f*cked
> up, and so are the chanel number assignements. I don't care about
> what instrument goes with what chanel, but want one chanel per
> instruement in the same order as the score.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Éric Dussault

My answer: I don't know of more than 32 MIDI channels available on Finale,
others may know more. But 10 and 26 are drums, so 30 pitched channels are
available. So 39 channels may be a pipe dream.

Maybe one of the many so preoddupied with the non-Finale threads would care
to coment?

Neal Schermerhorn
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