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Subject: Re: a challenge... hmm... well... uh...

From: keltik@...
Date: 2000-07-22

Thanks so much Gary. After playing around with your suggestions, I
finally got it. I'm afraid I just don't understand enough about MIDI
to just know right off what you're talking about all the time, and
while I would love to learn more, like I stated earlier, it is
extremely difficult to find any information on MIDI that I can
understand. But it works now, and I do have a better understanding of
why, though still not nearly complete.

Thanks again,
Matt


--- In AN1x-list@egroups.com, "Gary Gregson" <gary@y...> wrote:
> Matt wrote:
>
> > OK. Um. Well. It works now without any instances of
Hwmdcabl.exe...
> > using Gary's suggested setup... which didn't work earlier.
> > I don't know why.
> > But... it does work (for now).
>
> Good...but you should make sure you understand why it works now and
not
> before (it may be that you have different settings for thru and
sysex in
> different Cakewalk songs!)
>
> > So I guess that leaves only the question of how to get Cakewalk
> > talking to the card.
>
> What do you mean by Cakewalk talking to the card? Just assign a
track to the
> MIDI channel the PLG150AN board is configured to receive on and set
the
> tracks port to SW1000XG#1 Synth. Thereafter the synth will just
play.
>
> [Note you can configure the PLG150AN to replace any one of the
first 16 XG
> parts of the SW1000XG. Also you can separately set which MIDI
cahnnel that
> part (and thus the PLG150AN) responds to. By default the card and
AN1xEdit
> will elect to use Part 1/MIDI Channel 1. However you can change
this to your
> preference using the PART and CH dials of AN1xEdit immediately
above the on
> screen keyboard. So for instance you could use Part16 on MIDI
channel 16.
> Then if you want to get really clever, you could layer the AN sound
on top
> of an XG sound, by setting the receive channel to the same channel
as one of
> the other XG parts e.g. setting Part16 but MIDI channel 1, would
layer the
> AN sound on top of the XG part 1 sound!]
>
> Regards
>
> Gary
> Email:
> gary@y...
> http://www.yme.co.uk/yme