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MIDI Setup

How to get there

Choose MIDI Setup from the MIDI Menu.

What it does

In the MIDI Setup dialog box you can edit a number of settings pertaining to your MIDI interface setup.

Playback To: MIDI System • QuickTime Playback • SmartMusic SoftSynth. Choose MIDI System to playback using the MIDI System specified in the MIDI System popup menu (to the left). Select Quicktime Playback if you want SongWriter to play back your piece using QuickTime Musical Instruments through your Macintosh’s speaker instead of a MIDI instrument. Choose SmartMusic SoftSynth Playback to use SongWriter’s General MIDI sound font for instrument sounds during Internal Speaker Playback.

MIDI System: CoreMIDI. Use this popup menu to select the MIDI system you plan to use for communication within your MIDI setup. Choose CoreMIDI to use Apple’s built-in MIDI System. SongWriter lists the available input and output devices for each bank of 16 SongWriter channels. Select the Output and Input Devices you plan to use.
SongWriter Channel: 1-16 · 17-32...113-128. There are 128 SongWriter channels available for MIDI note entry and playback. They are grouped into eight 16-channel banks. Each bank represents one or more MIDI devices and their 16 available MIDI channels, depending on your MIDI setup. For example, each bank of SongWriter channels could be mapped as follows:

SongWriter channels	MIDI channels on the connected instrument
1-16	Device One 1-16
17-32	Device Two 1-16
33-48	Device Three 1-16
49-64	Device Four 1-16
65-80	Device Five 1-16
81-96	Device Six 1-16
97-112	Device Seven 1-16
113-128	Device Eight 1-16

MIDI In Latency. Enter a value in this text box to delay SongWriter’s translation of MIDI information for entry in HyperScribe. The MIDI latency value compensates for the short delay it sometimes takes for MIDI information to travel from an external MIDI device into the computer.
Audio MIDI Setup. Choose this command to open OS X’s Audio MIDI Setup dialog box where you can adjust settings for MIDI input and playback. For example, you might use Audio MIDI Setup to assign a name to the port used to connect your external MIDI device. (The port’s name will appear accordingly in SongWriter’s MIDI Setup dialog box).
OK · Cancel. Click OK to confirm, or Cancel to discard, the changes you’ve made to the MIDI settings in this dialog box and return to the score.

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