MIDI keyboard sound

[Chickinox]

Dear David,
thank you for your detailed answer. My Composer 4works perfectly in playing midi files, I can change instruments very easily even on an external midi keyboard that has internal sounds (Korg PA 4x).
My problem comes when I try to use a smaller keyboard (Keystation 49) without internal sounds that I wish to use as a simple way of writing a score. The keyboard connects easily and all the observations you made in the first part of your message are fulfilled. Anyway I am able to play only the "number one" piano sound of the general midi, I just wish to change instrument that wil ease my job in writing the othe parts of the score. As I previously told, changing instrument in the staff setup does not affect, if I choose another instrument it will continue to play the piano sound. I am sure there is a way to come out of this.


Thank you again for your attention.


Paolo

[dj]

Hi, Chickinox:


Are there other staves in your file other than the one you're trying to play into?


If they are physically below your staff and set to the same Midi channel, they would then override the higher staff and send their patch info when you start to play. That would result in you not being able to change the voice patch.


The solution is to make sure your staves are set to different Midi channels.


Hope that helps.


David

[Sherry C]

Hi Paolo,


If David's suggestion doesn't fix the issue, it may be that they keyboard you're using is only transmitting on one channel (probably channel 1, which is typically the piano). Please check your keyboard manual and see if there is a setting to allow multi-channel transmission. I had an old keyboard at one point where I had to set the transmission channel for every time I'd play into a staff. I no longer have that unit


ttfn,
Sherry

[Sherry C]

p.s. I should also note that if you have selected a staff to record into, then the instrument sound that you have selected for that staff should be what you hear. That is the scenario that David and I addressed previously.



However, if you are just playing along with Composer (rather than recording), then the issue is probably that you're just hearing the Play Along instrument, which default is Piano. You can change that using Perform/Practice Setup/Play Along Sound. Please note that changing this setting will NOT affect the instrument in any given staff, it just changes the sound you hear when you play along on your keyboard. This is useful if you're using Composer as your "band" and you're playing a part that you want to have a particular instrument sound.


Hopefully something here will be the "aha!" that you need


Sherry