MIDI menu

• MIDI Setup
• MIDI Thru
• Quantization Settings
• Enable Human Playback
• Reassign Playback Sounds
• Set Panning
• All Notes Off
• Start Playback

• Stop Playback
  

How to get there 

The MIDI menu is one of NotePad’s unchanging menus.

What it does

This menu contains items specific to your MIDI setup and usage.

• MIDI Setup. Choose this command to display the MIDI Setup dialog box, where you can make a number of settings concerning your MIDI interface setup. See MIDI Setup dialog box.
• MIDI Thru. If you prefer to use one keyboard as a controller and another as the sound source, MIDI Thru must be on if you wish to hear notes from one device as you’re entering them on another.
• Enable Human Playback. Use this command to enable Human Playback. With Human Playback enabled, NotePad interprets markings such as hairpins, articulations, and expressions to simulate a human performance.
• Reassign Playback Sounds. Choose this command to automatically assign sounds to your score Instruments (SmartMusic SonftSynth or General MIDI, depending on the device chosen for MIDI Out in the MIDI Setup dialog box).
• Quantization Settings. Select Quantization Settings to display the Quantization Settings dialog box. In this dialog box you can specify the smallest beat you will allow for Importing MIDI Files. See Quantization Settings dialog box for more details.
• Set Panning. Choose this command to automatically configure the pan setting for each staff in order to simulate the effect of instruments distributed among the orchestral space. NotePad recognizes many instrumental configurations, and sets the MIDI Pan value for each instrument accordingly (also taking into account solo instruments). These settings are based on Human Playback's interpretation.
• All Notes Off. From time to time, you may encounter MIDI lock, a rare situation in which a synthesizer sounds as if its keys are “stuck,” and it plays continuously as though someone’s still pressing them. To send the MIDI signal that tells it to “release the keys,” choose this command; after a moment, the synthesizer will be silent. Technically, this command sends a Note Off command to all notes on all channels.
• Start Playback · Stop Playback. Use these commands to start or stop playback. Playback starts at the measure chosen in the Playback Controls.

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