Getting Started - Peabody Computer Music

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Using MIDIUsing MIDIOn Windows, all MIDI devices which are installed correctly on your system and appear inthe Sounds and Audio Devices Properties (Start - Settings - Sounds and Audio Devices) willbe available to Max/MSP for MIDI I/O.On Macintosh, the OS X application Audio MIDI Setup, located in the Utilities folder insidethe Applications folder, is used to set up and describe your MIDI setup.In addition to the standard MIDI drivers used to communicate with external MIDI gear(coremidi on the Mac and midi_mme on Windows ), there are additional MIDI driversavailable for use:midi_adrewireaugraphmidi_dmThis driver sends and receives MIDI from a ReWire host application whenMax is a ReWire client(Macintosh) This driver addresses DLS synthesizers built into the Macintoshplatform's operating system.(Windows), This driver addresses DLS synthesizers built into the Macintoshplatform's operating system.Max allows you to have multiple active MIDI driver objects in operation.30
Using MIDIUsing the MIDI Setup WindowThe Max application specifies multiple MIDI ports by letter (a-z), or by using MIDI channelnumbers above 16. This requires a certain amount of translation between Core MIDI devicenames and the Max lettering scheme. You can use the MIDI Setup window to perform thistranslation. To see the MIDI Setup window, choose MIDI Setup... from the File menu.The MIDI Setup window lists the MIDI device names and lets you associate letterabbreviations and ranges of MIDI channels with them.The default MIDI output device under Max is the internal synthesizer supported by youroperating system. On the Macintosh, this is an AudioUnit DLS synthesizer that supportsboth its own set of internal sounds (as a General MIDI bank), as well as Level 2 SoundFontfiles.On Windows, this is the Microsoft Direct<strong>Music</strong> DLS synthesizer. Note that theMicrosoft DLS synthesizer does not support SoundFont files. For more information aboutworking with DLS synths, see the section Using the DLS Synthesizer later in this chapter.To assign an abbreviation and MIDI channel range to a device, select the desired values fromthe pop-up menus. The abbreviation allows you to type the letter instead of the device nameas an argument to MIDI objects such as notein or noteout. The channel offset is added to theMIDI channel of the incoming data to distinguish its device for MIDI objects set to receivefrom multiple devices or sent to multiple devices. For example, if a device is given a channeloffset of 32, a note-on message sent to Max will be output on channel 33 of a notein object.Similarly, if you send 33 to the MIDI channel inlet of a noteout object, a subsequent int sent tothe left inlet will produce a note message on MIDI channel 1 for the device whose channeloffset is 32.31
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