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CHAPTER 16 MIDI and NIFF MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is still, after a remarkable period of time of almost twenty years, the most acknowledged standard for connecting various devices used for creating music. In Igor Engraver, MIDI is used in several ways: • To let you input music from a MIDI device such as a keyboard or a MIDI-guitar • To tell synthesisers what to play • To exchange files between Igor Engraver and other programs. MIDI is dealt with both in this chapter and in the Menus chapter, namely 13.2.6 “MIDI – Windows” on page 220 and 13.2.7 “MIDI – Macintosh” on page 223. Those sections explains how to use the MIDI options available from the Edit menu. The Import NIFF File command lets you import NIFF (Notation Interchange File Format) files. This means Igor Engraver can import sheet music files from some other notation programs and sheet music scanning programs, using a standard much more suitable for exchanging sheet music data than MIDI can offer. For example, slurs are notated correctly when importing a NIFF file, whereas a MIDI file will notate slurred passages as “clusters”. NIFF Import is dealt with after the MIDI sections. 16.1 Music Input From a MIDI Device To input music from a MIDI device, for example a keyboard, you need to connect the device to the computer by using a MIDI interface. On the Macintosh platform, Igor Engraver uses OMS; thus, to use a MIDI device you need to configure OMS properly, as described in 1.9 “A Step-By-Step Guide to Installing Igor Engraver (Macintosh)” on page 25. Read on to learn more about how to select synthesisers for recording and playback.
265 CHAPTER 16 MIDI and NIFF 16.1.1 Step-Time Recording As mentioned earlier, it is possible to perform MIDI step-time recording in Igor Engraver. First, enter Input mode by double-clicking in a bar. Next, press the key for the desired duration. Finally, press one or several keys on your MIDI keyboard. Now, the pitch will be entered with the duration you selected. If you hit another key on the MIDI keyboard, you will add another note to the layout. This is perhaps the fastest way to enter your music, as it’s easy to create long passages of music just by hitting the right keys on the MIDI keyboard. 16.1.2 Real-Time Recording As stated when describing the Play & Record palette in the Palettes chapter, real-time recording is possible in Igor Engraver. This is how it works: • Put the Input caret in the bar where you want to begin recording. • Press the Record tool to initiate the recording process. • Press a key (or the like…) on your MIDI device to start the metronome’s countdown. Since recording does not start immediately after you press the Record tool, you have time to get in position before starting the actual recording. • The metronome will play the specified number of countdown bars, and recording then starts. • Recording continues as long as the metronome sounds (it will stop at the end of the piece). • Recording stops when the Stop tool is pressed or at the end of the piece. • All the entries will be quantised according to the settings in the Metronome Recording settings window (see below). If the Metronome recording settings... command is chosen from the Edit menu’s MIDI submenu (Windows), or the Settings tool of the Play & Record palette is clicked (Macintosh), the Metronome Recording settings window appears. In this window you can define several things: Number of countdown bars, which defines how many bars of countdown you want before recording begins. Beats per minute, in which you set the default playback tempo according to the denominator of the tempo signature.
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