I have a MacBook Pro with Sibelius 6 connected to a set of external MIDI devices (not General MIDI; these are mostly rack-mount synthesizers like the Oberheim Matrix-6R) through a Tascam US-122L audio/MIDI interface. I'm not getting this to work at all right now but what I'd really like to understand is the preferred way to assign staves or, more precisely, groups of staves (like you would for typical piano notation, i.e., one treble clef staff and one bass clef staff connected by a brace) to a particular outbound MIDI channel on the US-122L. Being able to send patch numbers on that channel is optional; the most important thing is having a systematic way to use Sibelius with a combination of internal instruments and external MIDI devices.
Thanks!
Assigning staves to external MIDI channels
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I was eventually able to figure it out. You control it using the Mixer.
How in Heaven's name did you get this to work? I am ready to throw out Sibelius 6 and get something easier to work with!
I previously used Sibelius 4 to change channel assignments for playing songs through my church organ (Rodgers Allegiant 678). After switching to 6, the channels are no longer changeable. I need to change the channels so that selected staves could play through various manuals. For example: channel 12 for Great (lower keyboard), 13 for Swell (upper keyboard), and 14 for Pedal.
Please provide detailed steps on how this can be accomplished. I really, really would appreciate any help.
John
I previously used Sibelius 4 to change channel assignments for playing songs through my church organ (Rodgers Allegiant 678). After switching to 6, the channels are no longer changeable. I need to change the channels so that selected staves could play through various manuals. For example: channel 12 for Great (lower keyboard), 13 for Swell (upper keyboard), and 14 for Pedal.
Please provide detailed steps on how this can be accomplished. I really, really would appreciate any help.
John
I have a related question which I posted elsewhere in the forum..
Situation A: Sibelius plays back midi real-time
Situation B. Sibelius exports to a saved MIDI file (I'm assuming there is such a thing)
Obviously situation A is workable with non-general-midi setups, like software/hardware synthesizers with a configuration based on assignments to **midi channels**, with possible keyswitching.
General midi is a whole nuther animal because it uses program selection messages for everything and doesn't do a hard association of instrument to channel.
So obviously Sibelius does A just fine with real-time playback (with human/expressive touch) , but can it write those very same midi events to a file.
Situation A: Sibelius plays back midi real-time
Situation B. Sibelius exports to a saved MIDI file (I'm assuming there is such a thing)
Obviously situation A is workable with non-general-midi setups, like software/hardware synthesizers with a configuration based on assignments to **midi channels**, with possible keyswitching.
General midi is a whole nuther animal because it uses program selection messages for everything and doesn't do a hard association of instrument to channel.
So obviously Sibelius does A just fine with real-time playback (with human/expressive touch) , but can it write those very same midi events to a file.