Neal Schermerhorn wrote:
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?
On Windows there are up to 64 channels available (I think the same is
true of Macs). You need to have 4 different midi output ports defined
on your computer (with devices attached, if you want to hear the sounds)
in order to be able to define instruments for 64 channels of playback.
39 instruments would require 3 separate midi output ports and devices.
The problem is simply that Eric needs to define 39 DIFFERENT instruments
(if he wants 39 separate instruments) on 39 different channels,
remembering that 10, 26, 42, 58 are drum channels.
Eric will need to define Flute 1 as channel 1, flute 2 as channel 2,
oboe 1 as channel 3, oboe 2 as channel 4, clarinet 1 as channel 5,
clarinet 2 as channel 6, etc.
If the file is then opened on a computer which has only 1 midi output
port defined, then the channel assignment will be totally screwed up.
And I don't recall any threads not related to Finale or to the operation
of this list, both of which are germane to the purpose of this list.
Those who ignore the competition often find themselves left in the dust.
Discussion of how things are done in Sibelius, compared to how they
are done in Finale, are very germane to this list.
By studying the competition, Sibelius has managed to leapfrog over
Finale in some features. If we see things we like in Sibelius, we can
request similar features from Finale. How is that a non-Finale thread?
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David H. Bailey
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