Instruction Manual

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Changing Track Settings
Controlling Playback
exported. Other parameters, including Input, Output, Mute, Solo, and
Archive, are lost when you export the project to a MIDI file.
The following sections contain more information about many of the
parameters in the Track view. For more information on the track inputs and
the track Arm button, see Preparing to Record.
Setting Up Output Devices
The output setting for a track determines which piece of hardware or
software synthesizer will be used to produce the sound stored in your
project. In a very simple equipment setup, you might have only a computer
equipped with a basic sound card. In this case, you want to play all MIDI
and audio output through the sound card on your computer.
If your equipment setup also includes a MIDI keyboard attached to the MIDI
port on your sound card, you can choose to route MIDI data directly to the
sound card or through the sound card MIDI port to the keyboard. If you
choose the former, the music will play from your computer speakers. If you
choose the latter, the sound will play from the speaker attached to your
keyboard. You can even choose to send some MIDI information to each of
these devices so that they both play at once.
You can purchase MIDI interfaces that plug into your parallel, serial, or USB
port to add MIDI ports to your computer. For more information on complex
system configurations, see the online help topic: Hardware Setup.
If your computer has several MIDI outs, choose the ones you want to use
and put them in a particular order using the Options-MIDI Devices
command. The order in which your MIDI devices appear in the Output
menus in the Track and Console views is based solely on the order in which
the selected outs appear in the MIDI Devices dialog box. As a result, the