User Guide

Chapter 5: Option Panels Settings 31
PART SETTINGS
MIDI CHANNEL
The MIDI channel is the channel used for output of the program's MIDI data.
Your synthesizer, sound card or digital piano must be set up to receive on the
channel that the program is outputting on - otherwise the output will be silent.
Changing this setting instantly changes the Channel, so you can quickly try all
16 channels to see which channel your synth is responding to.
PATCH - Bank MSB - Bank LSB - DEFAULT=0
A Patch is the instrument selection for your synthesizer. Normally you will
want to use a Piano patch for the piano, Bass for the bass etc. But you can
select any Patch (e.g. Guitar, Electric Piano, Music Box, Harp, Tenor
Saxophone etc.). It is probably easier to change the Patch from the Patch pull
down menu rather than changing the Bank MSB and/or Bank LSB, since this
procedure will also provide you with an descriptive name for a given patch.
TRANSPOSE - DEFAULT =0
If you want to transpose the instrument up or down by semitones, set by this
transpose setting. Note that this only transposes the particular instrument, not
all of the instruments. You might use this to change the octave of an
instrument by setting to +12 or -12 semitones.
VELOCITY BOOST - DEFAULT=0
Normally you would leave the Velocity boost at =0 . Velocity refers to how
hard each note was pressed, which is different from VOLUME which refers to
the overall volume of the sound. Since different synths respond differently to
velocity information, you can try setting this velocity boost if you find the
piano is too quiet even after setting the Volume to maximum for example. Try
to avoid changing the velocity boost from 0, since it will affect the dynamics
of the performance.