Subject:MIDI Channel Change reverts to original

Posted by: nutrapuppy

Date:1/26/2006 9:53:53 PM

I want to do something very simple.
I have a melody that I want doubled with a different instrument, but an octave lower.
I duplicated the original MIDI track, and then saved th duplicate as a new name in the Properties window.
Then on the General tab, I change the Midi channel to correspond with the desired VST instrument.
I lower all the events one octave. I click SAVE in the Properties window.

Then I hit play, and I get the original MIDI channel's instrument played back at the original octave AND the lower octave.
Why? Because on the duplicated, newly named, altered and saved track, the MIDI channel reverts to the original channel.

I checked the ACID help file and it says I am doing this correctly.

Can somebody please advise?

ACID 5.0c.

Subject:RE: MIDI Channel Change reverts to original

Reply by: nutrapuppy

Date:1/26/2006 10:13:29 PM

Never mind. Its a bug that was documented over a year ago and nobody has bothered to fix it.

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=337856

Has anyone found a convenient workaround?

Subject:RE: MIDI Channel Change reverts to original

Reply by: pwppch

Date:1/26/2006 10:44:31 PM

Are you saying you are changing the channel and want to route to a different VSTi? That is not how things work.

An ACID MIDI track is routed to a single instrument - be it hardware or a Softsynth.

An ACID MIDI track can contain a MIDI file (whether loaded or created) that has multiple tracks. These MIDI file tracks are all routed to the ACID MIDI Track's port/synth assigment.

The general page allows for multitrack MIDI files to have their channel changed. This channel change affects only the channel on the softsynth/hardware device that the MIDI data will be sent on. It does not change the device or allow you to route to a different device on a single ACID MIDI Track.

So, if you have an ACID MIDI track and you want to route it to a different synth, then you have to change the ACID Track's port assignement, not the 'channel' assigment of the MIDI track contained on the ACID MIDI Track.

Peter

Subject:RE: MIDI Channel Change reverts to original

Reply by: nutrapuppy

Date:1/27/2006 1:13:09 PM

I did change the port assignment. I also want the midi to go to a different channel on that port.
In the Help file it says how to do this, but it forgets the midi channel change.

Subject:RE: MIDI Channel Change reverts to original

Reply by: pwppch

Date:1/27/2006 5:46:23 PM

I am not able to reproduce this at all.

The files exported from ACID - opened in both ACID and other sequencers - all have the correct channel in the file.

Once I set the channel in the general props for the track, the channel sticks regardless of what I assign the port to.

There must be a step in your procedure that I am not doing.

What softsynth are you trying to change to?
What is the original softsynth the ACID track is routed to?

Could you email me a MIDI file you are seeing this problem with or an acd file that exhibits this behavior?

Peter