[Finale] Finale MIDI question
Friends, Not that it's necessarily a news flash, but I find myself once again in the state of Confusion, and without a map. I had always assumed that there was some correspondence between MIDI channels, and stereo audio channels (though I didn't have any particular basis for the assumption), and only found out recently that Finale playback output seems to be monaural, rather than stereo. Now, I've already figured out how to achieve a work around, to simulate a stereo recording, but I'm curious to know whether there is some MIDI (or VST) controller setting which could be assigned to an expression, which would direct MIDI channel 2 to the left stereo channel, with a similar expression with different parameters would assign MIDI channel 1 to the right stereo channel. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale MIDI question
Noel, Finale output is, and has always been, stereo. The pan value in the Instrument List (or Mixer) controls the placement in the stereo field. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 5 Aug 2009, at 7:27 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Friends, Not that it's necessarily a news flash, but I find myself once again in the state of Confusion, and without a map. I had always assumed that there was some correspondence between MIDI channels, and stereo audio channels (though I didn't have any particular basis for the assumption), and only found out recently that Finale playback output seems to be monaural, rather than stereo. Now, I've already figured out how to achieve a work around, to simulate a stereo recording, but I'm curious to know whether there is some MIDI (or VST) controller setting which could be assigned to an expression, which would direct MIDI channel 2 to the left stereo channel, with a similar expression with different parameters would assign MIDI channel 1 to the right stereo channel. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale MIDI question
Hi-- Not sure if this is what you mean- Midi Controller #10 (0A hex)Pan A Value of 64--pans center A Value of 0, or 1-pans hard left A Value of 127 pans hard right Bob Morabito On Aug 5, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Friends, Not that it's necessarily a news flash, but I find myself once again in the state of Confusion, and without a map. I had always assumed that there was some correspondence between MIDI channels, and stereo audio channels (though I didn't have any particular basis for the assumption), and only found out recently that Finale playback output seems to be monaural, rather than stereo. Now, I've already figured out how to achieve a work around, to simulate a stereo recording, but I'm curious to know whether there is some MIDI (or VST) controller setting which could be assigned to an expression, which would direct MIDI channel 2 to the left stereo channel, with a similar expression with different parameters would assign MIDI channel 1 to the right stereo channel. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale MIDI question
On 5 Aug 2009 at 18:27, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: I had always assumed that there was some correspondence between MIDI channels, and stereo audio channels (though I didn't have any particular basis for the assumption), and only found out recently that Finale playback output seems to be monaural, rather than stereo. I don't know where you get the idea that Finale is mono in its output. While I'm using a very old version of Finale (WinFin2003), I've been assigning panning settings for instruments for well over a decade and the resulting MIDI files play out in stereo, with instruments clearly sounding like they are roughly in the location specified by the pan settings. Of course, all my work is pre-Garritan and pre-SoftSynch. -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale MIDI question
Darcy, Bob and David, Thanks for your help and indulgence. The reason I got the idea that Finale was playing back in mono, is that I've just upgraded hardware, and in the process, decided to install, and experiment with Wavosaur. Wavosaur was for reasons I don't begin to understand, only recording the left stereo channel, but seemed to be incorporating all of the MIDI information within that single channel. I've not changed anything (neither software settings in wavosaur, nor in Finale, nor hardware, including cables, c) but for some reason, after writing to ask the question, now I find that I am, indeed, getting two channel output. Well, except from the headphone output from my MIDI keyboard (a ten year old Roland EP-75), but I see a bit of plastic wedged into the unit along side the headphone jack, and I am reminded that I found a short in the headphone jack at one time, but since the rest of the unit was functioning as expected, and the unit was out of warranty, I didn't bother to try to get it fixed. It's almost as if there was a gremlin in the software, impeding the two channel playback until just after I had asked a question that made me appear more provide own adjective here that I think I am. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
