Technical information

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Song Patch Changes: Songs can be saved with patch changes. If you want to prevent specific instruments loading
for a given song, set this option to “No.”
Style Patch Changes: Styles contain patch change information for the instruments that were used when the Style
was created. To use your own instrument selection, not the original instruments, change this setting to “No.”
Drum Patch Changes: To disable patch changes in Drums, set to NO.
Allow Volume Changes: To prevent any volume changes set to “No.”
Style Volume Changes: To stop embedded style volume changes set to “No.”
MIDI Settings
The [Channels] button opens the MIDI Settings dialog.
MIDI Channels: Range 0 to 16. If set to 0 the part will be Off/Disabled, which is not the same as muted.
Octave: Adjusts the octave of the part. Range (-2 to +2). Usually set to 0. (Bass is usually set to -1 for most
General MIDI (GM) instruments.)
Patch: Range 0 to 128. These are General MIDI patch numbers.
Volume: Range 0 to 127. Average volume setting is = 90. This can also be set from the main screen.
Panning: Panning refers to the stereo placement (i.e. Left to Right) of a given part's sound. The range of this
parameter is -63 to +63. A setting of 0 is centered in the middle of the stereo field.
Note: Only General MIDI, XG, and GS instruments respond to Reverb, Chorus, and Bank changes.
Reverb: Range 0 to 127. Default setting = 40.
Chorus: Range of 0 to 127. Default setting = 0.
Bank0 and LSB(32): Many General MIDI instruments have extra instruments available on higher banks. Usually
set to 0. Other settings are multiples of 8 (0, 8, 16 etc.).