Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 10:30 AM 08/01/2005, dhbailey wrote:
>Yes, I did, and there was nothing about a file that could be played the
>old fashioned way, through a midi-interface into an external module.
I believe this is essentially the same as playing through Softsynth,
except you direct your MIDI output elsewhere.
>How would a 16-channel midi-interface handle things assigned to channels
>17-24?
Now I feel a little like Darcy, starting to repeat the same thing
several times. (But only a little, since his experience is vastly
greater than mine.)
A GPO slot is different from a MIDI channel. If you have a 16-channel
MIDI interface, then set up your score to use those channels. Then
you'll need two instances of FinGPO. The first will use GPO slots 1-8,
probably mapped to MIDI 1-8. The second will use GPO slots 17-24, and
you'll have to map them to MIDI 9-16.
I admit this is non-intuitive and not well explained in the Finale docs.
I didn't get it until something that Darcy said made me realize it.
I did finally figure that out, and all either you or Darcy needed to do
was to point us to the unnecessarily tiny slot in the GPO setup dialog
(the one which looks like a keyboard) which has a midi-port icon and a
number or the word OMNI beside it. Clicking on the number or OMNI but
NOT clicking on the icon itself (that does nothing, go figure -- don't
these people at GPO or MakeMusic go to seminars on user interfaces
ever?) opens a list of all 16 midi channel numbers.
It is from this list, and this list ONLY that you can reassign the midi
channel for any of the 8 instruments in a single GPO instance.
I owe you a debt of gratitude, Aaron, expressed in another message, for
sticking with me on this one and forcing me (through sheer obstinance on
my part) to figure it out.
But once I found out where to change the midi channel for an instrument
slot in GPO, the rest is easy.
--
David H. Bailey
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