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MIDI Setup
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MIDI Thru
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Quantization Settings
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Enable Human Playback.
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Set Panning
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All Notes Off
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Start Playback
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Start Playback · Stop Playback.
Use these commands to start or stop playback. Playback starts at the measure chosen in the Playback Controls.
