Midi Set-Up

This dialogue screen permits you to select your  Midi output devices, where your computer has more than one. In many cases, where there is an internal sound card which was supplied with the computer, this will be the only Midi device. In this case, the system should default to the top device in the list, which will normally be this one and only sound card.

However, if you have a more sophisticated Midi set-up, with perhaps an external sound module, or external Midi synthesizer,  and perhaps more than one internal sound card, you will need to choose which device you want to use with Musical Discovery.  Normally, for your Midi output, select the device which has the best and most realistic orchestral sounds. 

Musical discovery will save your choices in a text file, and so next time you use the program, it will remember your settings.

You need to select an output device from the drop-down list under New Settings.  The previously-stored settings are shown in the text boxes above the drop-down box. The device ID might be -2 or -1 if the device is not enabled. For the output device, if an internal sound card is part of the computer's mother-board, it is likely that the wave-table synthesizer will show as device no 0. Then any additional output Midi devices will have device Ids of 1, 2 upwards.

When your settings are complete, click the green button OK, Save these settings. The settings will be activated, stored in a text file for the next time you use Musical Discovery, and the dialogue box will close.  If you wish to abandon the Midi setup, click the pink button Back (Cancel).

If no devices at all appear in the list, try going to Windows Control Panel - Sounds and Audio Devices, to verify which MIDI devices, if any, you have connected and operating correctly.


MidiSetup.htm    Sunday, 03 September 2006 17:34