 Anyone Using Finale With A Mac? |
 Thu 31 Mar 2005, 04:38
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I recently purchased a Roland Fantom X6. I use a Mac G5 and have installed Finale 2005. I can't seem to get Finale to send patch changes to the Fantom. When I do the Tutorial in the Finale tutotial book (chapter 6 - more midi topics) the result I get is not correct - the patch assignments are not recognized by the X6 - it plays all the parts with the one sound - whichever sound the X6 has selected on its screen - not affected by the data I have entered in Finale. However, I can enter notes in Finale using the X6 as a midi source so I know the computer and the X6 are sending and receiving the midi signal.
Is anyone at this site using Finale with a Mac? Can you offer any suggestions to get me started? Any help would be appreciated. blueroom |
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Fri 1 Apr 2005, 06:00
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After scanning through all of this, just one simple comment - the Fantom is set in Performance Mode, not Patch Mode, correct? I have a Fantom-S88, which is virtually the same in operation, and if Finale is sending multitimbral information, all info will be ignored except MIDI channel 1 (the key patch) and channel 10 (the rhythm patch) when the Fantom is in patch mode - it must be in Peformance Mode to receive on all 16 channels. The information about patch names is also interesting - I had obtained a patch name document for one of the older Fantoms, and have modified it to match my own patch library (including the SRX cards I installed). It was a matter of manually inputting the patch names in a text editor, and adding the banks that did not exist in the original document. I am now able to access the patches by name from within Pro Tools (which I use for MIDI). Just my 2 cents.
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blueroom Anyone Using Finale With A Mac? Thu 31 Mar 2005, 04:38
ghess I've not used the Fantom, but I do use Finale ... Thu 31 Mar 2005, 05:38 MidiMacMan QUOTE (ghess @ Mar 31 2005, 04:38)1. Open MID... Thu 31 Mar 2005, 06:26 beltunabob Blueroom,
You might try the Finale forum. I'm... Thu 31 Mar 2005, 15:48 leekunkel I have also just been through the same hoops with ... Thu 31 Mar 2005, 19:23 leekunkel One other thing that I failed to mention in the pr... Thu 31 Mar 2005, 19:34 blueroom Thank you to ghess, MidiMacMan, beltunabob, and le... Fri 1 Apr 2005, 03:36 ghess QUOTE Re what both ghess and MidiMacMan said about... Fri 1 Apr 2005, 12:53
leekunkel While finishing my setup for DP4 today, I discover... Sat 2 Apr 2005, 01:26 |
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