User Manual

RECORDING
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Direct Echo is useful in situations where you want
to be able to change the channel you are echoing to
from your MIDI controller keyboard by simply
changing its transmit channel.
Auto channelize
Auto Channelize causes incoming MIDI data from
your controller to be echoed to the output device
and channel for the currently record-enabled MIDI
track. The following sections discuss several
scenarios that affect Auto Channelize.
Auto channelizing in a sequence
When a sequence is play-enabled in the Chunks
window, here is how Auto Channelize Patch Thru
works. In normal recording mode (Multi Record
off), incoming data from any input source is echoed
to the device specified for the record-enabled track
in the currently play-enabled sequence.
Every time you change the record-enable track,
Patch Thru repatches your controller instrument to
echo out to the specified device for that track. Thus
you always hear your incoming data as it would be
played back.
If the record-enabled track is assigned to a MIDI
device group (several playback devices at the same
time), all of the devices will receive the patched
thru data. (See “Creating a MIDI device group” on
page 134.)
Auto channelizing with Multi Record turned on
If Multi Record is on (it’s checked in the Studio
menu), only MIDI data received on the specified
recording Device for a track will be echoed to the
corresponding playback channels for that track. In
the following example, notes played on the K2600,
channel 1 will be heard on MachFive, channel 2.
Notes played from the ReMOTE controller,
channel 2, will be patched through to the JV-1080,
channel 1.
Figure 24-8: In Multi Record mode, you can choose a specific source
instrument (and channel, if desired) for each track that is record-
enabled.
In the above example, the two controller
instruments will be rechannelized separately. If two
different tracks had the same input recording
channel and had a common output channel, the
incoming data will be echoed twice to that output
channel. This may cause problems with some
MIDI instruments; caution is advised.
Since Patch Thru works even when you’re not
recording, you can use Digital Performer as a
sophisticated MIDI merger, mapper, or
rechannelizer during playback, recording or when
stopped. Patch Thru allows you to route MIDI
information from your controller instrument to
any combination of synthesizer modules. By
adding a group of tracks, each assigned to a
different MIDI channel or set of channels, you can
change the module configuration used for
playback by simply clicking on the record-enable
button for the track or tracks with the desired
channel configuration. This allows you to
experiment with channelization freely.
Auto channelizing with MIDI effects plug-ins
The Mixing Board allows you to apply real-time
MIDI effects plug-ins to a track. For example, you
could apply the Echo effect to a MIDI track to
make it echo during playback.
These same effects plug-ins will affect MIDI Patch
Thru as well. When you record-enable a track, and
the track has MIDI effects plug-ins currently
applied to it, you will hear the effects on what you
play.
This allows you to apply effects — in real time — to
what you are recording into (and patching thru)
Digital Performer. For example, you can apply a