Instrument lists

To assign staves to MIDI channels

• From the Window menu, choose Instrument List. The Instrument List window appears. Down the side of the screen you see the names of the staves in your document. At the right side of the screen, you can see the Instrument each staff is assigned to (and the MIDI channel that Instrument uses).
• To change the MIDI channel for a staff, click in the Chan column across from its name, and type a new channel number. Keep in mind that you’re now changing this Instrument’s channel; if any other staves share the same Instrument, their MIDI channel numbers will change, too.

You can also change the channel for an individual Layer of a staff. To do so, click the triangle to the left of the staff name; PrintMusic displays new rows of information that correspond to the staff’s Layers. Change any Layer’s Instrument assignment, using the Instrument popup menu across from its name, or just edit its Channel. If you want the Layers to have different MIDI channels, remember to assign them to different Instruments first.

• Click the staff name’s downward-pointing triangle to “collapse” (hide) the list of layers.

If you plan to re-use a typical patch/channel configuration, consider defining it, and naming it, as an Instrument. To do so, choose New Instrument from the Instrument popup menu across from any staff name. Enter the patch and channel numbers, and click OK. Then, the next time you want to re-create a particular channel and patch configuration for a particular staff, your new Instrument's name will appear in the popup menu for quick access.

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