MUSC 108. Introduction to Music Technology - Fall 2013

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04Lab7 - Finishing Touches

You still need to:

1. begin and end with the Reset All Controllers message
2. set the relative volume of each voice with the MIDI Volume Control (CC7) message
3. set the stereo left to right placement of each voice with the MIDI Pan Control (CC10) message
4. select the General MIDI instrument sounds for each voice with the Patch Change message

Insert Patch, Volume, And Pan MIDI Messages

Add these messages to the beginning of 04Lab7. The comments in column E are optional. The time increases by one with each message which may help prevent MIDI log jams. Anyway, the piece doesn't start until time 1000.

Enter MIDI Data For To The Greenwood

Copy all data from 04Lab6 and paste it into 04Lab7, cell A13.

Insert The Reset All Controllers Message At The End

Remember to use the Reset All Controllers at the end of the song.

Append this data at the end of the existing data. "last NOF time + 1000" is a time value not a formula.

Save And Play In MIDIDisplay

Experiment with different patch, balance, and pan messages in MIDIDisplay.

Change Instruments

A General MIDI instrument chart is available in MIDIDisplay Help and in GM Instruments.

Change the Patch Message data1 numbers to change instruments. Make sure to use zero based numbers.

Balance Instrument Volume

Change the Balance Control message data2 numbers to balance the overall volume between tracks.

Adjust Stereo Pan

Change the Pan Control message data2 numbers to change the stereo pan placement on the sound stage.

The settings shown above are for:

The following entries are equivalent.

Grouped by Status Type		Grouped by MIDI Channel

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