User Guide

Chapter 13: CoreMIDI and Apple DLS Synth
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After your external devices have been created and configured, the last step is to “wire
them up” to the picture of your MIDI interface. For instance, in the above illustration,
the KX-88 keyboard controller is connected to MIDI input/output pair #8 on the MTPII
MIDI Interface. Click on an input/output “pin” on the picture of your MIDI Interface,
and drag to an output/input “pin” of the picture of an external device.
After supplying this information, CoreMIDI will know what devices are “on the other
side” of your MIDI interface(s).
Band-in-a-Box MIDI Port Selection for External Devices
This example shows Band-in-a-Box configured to receive/record from a MIDI keyboard
on MIDI Interface Port 8. Band-in-a-Box transmits tracks on an assortment of
synthesizers, connected to various MIDI Interface ports. This scheme would be useful on
a large MIDI setup, if your best Drum sounds are on a Port 5 synthesizer, best Piano is on
a Port 2 synthesizer, etc.
Your setup does not have to be so complex. If you want all tracks to be played on a
single synthesizer (the most common situation), set the desired destination in the Bass
popup menu, and then click the ‘set all ports to this’ button, to quickly set the destination
for all tracks. You can get excellent results with all instruments assigned to a General
MIDI compatible device, such as an Apple DLS synth module.