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PG Music - Support FAQMIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. The MIDI specification is maintained by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA). We havewritten a couple of short starter tutorials on MIDI: There are many other MIDI tutorials on the internet, which you can find using any internet search engine. This involves sending specific MIDI channels to specific MIDI ports. If you have Windows 9. MIDI Mapper, and we've written a tutorial explaining how to use it: Using Multiple MIDI Output Devices with Windows 9. Unfortunately, Microsoft removed much of the functionality of the MIDI Mapper in later versions of Windows, and Band- in- a- Box.
One thing you can do is save your song as a MIDI file and play it with Power. Tracks Pro Audio, which does allow you to assign each track to a different MIDI port. Follow the instructions below if you get one of the following error messages when you try to open the notation or lead sheet window: Download and install the PG Music font update. Remember though, they were never developed to be a dedicated notation software package, so some of the problems you may run into will have to do with that limitation. For typical leadsheets though, this notation is more than adequate. First, you need to be in editable notation mode.
Open the Notation Window and look in the Notation Window toolbar. This will place a dotted whole note at that position. If it is in the second half of the bar, you will get an automatic 1/2 note rest in the first half. You will still get a dotted whole note in the second half of the bar. Don't worry if the first note you enter isn't the type of note you want it to be. The next note you place will determine the value of the first.
Remember that the subsequent note placed always determines the value of the previous note. If you want to shorten a previous note, you can select the rest box and place a rest between the notes at the value you want the previous note to be. Notes inserted between other notes will automatically set the value for the previous note as well. If you are in 'Staff roll' mode, you can change the duration of a note by clicking on it with the right mouse button and then dragging the cursor to the desired end location.
Click the Staff Roll mode button to toggle into staff roll mode. To delete a note from the Notation, hold down the delete key and left- mouse click on the note. Or you could right mouse click on the note (to edit it), then press the Delete button. You can change the beat resolution (the number of intervals in one beat) by right- clicking in the time indicator bar above the beat that you want to change. This will allow you to enter triplets in an even feel style, or sixteenth notes in a triplet feel style. The time indicator bar is the narrow space containing the black cursor that moves across the screen as your song is playing.
SSD – Set Sound Device v3. Windows XP allows you to output sound to more than one audio device. To overcome this “Failure by Design”, (IMHO somehow related to DRM, preventing. Technical Support FAQ: Band-in-a-Box . To search the FAQ, look through the FAQ titles below or press CTRL-F on your keyboard and enter a search term. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to. Auxiliary audio applications: ASIOConfig by djdecks – ASIO configuration viewer/changer that can be used when you can’t access the Xonar ASIO Configuration directly.
Note: The only tracks that are completely editable by the user are the Melody and Soloist tracks. It enables precise graphic editing of note timing and duration, and you can also graphically edit Note Velocity, Controllers, Program Changes, Channel Aftertouch, or Pitch Bend. To open the Piano Roll Window, click on the piano roll icon in the toolbar, or go to Window . Make sure to make backups of any personal files you have saved in that folder. These days, USB is by far the most common port used.
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USB: There are many MIDI interfaces available that connect to this port on your computer. MIDI In and Out cables connect from the interface to your synth, and you may have to purchase the cables separately.
Sound card (Joystick port): The joystick port (game port) on your sound card has a built- in MIDI interface. The cable that connects to the joystick port is commonly called a Universal MIDI Sound Card Connector. Some sound cards have MIDI in and out ports so you don't need to use the joystick port.
In either case, MIDI cables connect to your synth's MIDI In and Out. MPU- 4. 01 or other internal MIDI Interface: An interface (computer card) with MIDI In(s) and MIDI Out(s). This is a small interface card that plugs into a slot inside your computer.
MIDI cables are still required to connect to your external module. Serial or Printer: There are various MIDI interfaces that can connect from these types of existing computer data ports, although the USB port is used much more frequently these days. Some MIDI interfaces and cables can be purchased directly from PG Music Inc.: Hardware Products. We've written an article on the subject.
Click Here for more details. The manufacturer is referring to the number of sounds the module can play at the same time. A 6. 4 voice module can play 6. Some synths use more than one sound/voice to create a fuller sound for some patches. The number of partials (combinations of sounds) a patch uses will determine how many voices will be used for a single note.
For example, if you press one note on a patch that has 3 sounds in it (like a layer of piano, strings and brass), you would use up 3 voices of your 6. Add a Bass track, (1 note, 1 voice) Drums (4 notes in some places) Guitar (3 notes) ... You are using up the available voices as you add layers to your MIDI song. Remember, this is fluid; as notes are released, more voices become available. It is really only an issue when all tracks play all notes all at the same time. A 6. 4 voice module has a fair number of voices to use so running out of sound is not really an issue. Polyphony refers to the number of notes the unit can play simultaneously.
A trumpet is monophonic, while a guitar can have up to 6 note polyphony (six strings). Your synthesizer might be 1.
Sometimes, in a complex MIDI file, there are more than 6. In this case, a smart synth will use an algorithm to determine which note to suspend playing so that it might continue. A synthesizer is Multitimbral if it can produce more than one type of sound at a time. This is usually set to the number of channels the unit has. For example, on a 1. If you won't be recording MIDI or playing live from an external MIDI synth it is ok if you don't have a MIDI Input driver. This will restore the program's factory settings.
When you next launch Band- in- a- Box. If there are still no drivers there, this means that for whatever reason, the driver isn't installed on your computer. On Windows 9. 5/9. ME/NT/2. 00. 0, go to Start . On Windows XP, go to Start .
Find the file BBW. EXE. Right- click on this file and select Send To . You can name the shortcut whatever you want by clicking once on the icon and pressing F2 on your keyboard.
This is controlled by the Windows Volume Mixer, and the Sound settings in the Windows control panel. Single left- click on the speaker icon in your task bar to change the overall volume level on your PC or mute/un- mute the sound. The Play Control is for OUTPUT; it allows you to choose what outputs you listen to and how loud they are. To open the Record Control window, click on Options . The Record Control window is for INPUT; it allows you to choose what you record. For example, if you were recording audio using the line- in on your sound card, you would select 'line- in' as your recording input. In the Properties window, you can choose which audio device you wish to control (the .
Normally you don't need to change this. You can also select which volume controls you want displayed in the Record/Play Control panels.
You can also open the Windows sound card mixer directly from Band- in- a- Box. One way of opening it from Band- in- a- Box. Another is to go to the Audio menu and select Playback Mixer or Recording Mixer. Another way that you control audio recording and playback is by choosing your audio input and output drivers. If you only have one sound card you don't normally need to worry about this.
If you are using Band- in- a- Box. If you have a driver *other* than the Microsoft Sound Mapper selected, Band- in- a- Box. In this case, the audio device will usually have a separate control/mixer console that you can access from the Control Panel. You will need to check with your sound card documentation if you are not sure where to find it. The process of converting a MIDI file or Band- in- a- Box. If you are using a sound card/synth that can be tuned (Roland VSC, Creative Sound.
Blaster, and others), you may be able to tune it using the Master Tuning feature in Band- in- a- Box. If this does not work, see your sound card/synth manufacturer for support. If you are using a synth module or keyboard, see the manual for tuning info. If Band- in- a- Box. One characteristic of a software synth is that it takes some time for it to express the MIDI data it receives as sound.
In other words, there is a delay between when a note is sent by Band- in- a- Box. This delay is called latency, and is normally a fraction of a second. In Band- in- a- Box. However, note that this is only a visual setting; it doesn't change the actual latency of the driver. There will still be a delay between when you strike a key on your keyboard and when you hear the note played.
For recording or playing live from an external MIDI synth, the solution is to use a MIDI Output Driver with no noticeable latency. This could be the built- in MIDI synth on your computer's internal sound card, or your external MIDI keyboard or sound module. If you prefer the sound quality of the soft synth, you can record using a no- latency driver, and switch back to the soft synth for playback when you have finished recording. Here is some more information about the Roland VSC and Microsoft GS Wavetable. This information is only applicable to the stand- alone version of the VSC, not the VSC- DXi plugin. The Roland VSC is a software synthesizer based on the sounds from the Roland Sound Canvas hardware sound modules. The VSC's latency, or .
By default, the Roland VSC has a response time of about 4. This is a safe setting, and will avoid audio drop- outs and glitches even on older and slow computers. If you select the Roland VSC as your MIDI Output Driver and press OK in the MIDI Driver Setup dialog, Band- in- a- Box.