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Manual

MIDI output device strips
MIDI output device parameter
Track controls
Karaoke
Settings
List editor
ML's Internal Sound Generator
Audio record
Wave editor

Settings

The main menu of MIDI Locator contains an entry "Settings", which provides parameter categories for different subject areas inside MIDI Locator:

First select the subject in each parameter dialog's combo box, then set the parameters. If you press cancel on every parameter dialogs's bottom you cancel all changed parameters.

• MIDI play/output
  
  - Controller positions on play
  
  Nearly all MIDI device-parameter values for every MIDI channel (like panorma, main volume, active instruments etc.) are kept in MIDI Locator's memory, so that it always knows which current device values distinguish from values inside any point in your MIDI sequence.

So MIDI Locator can find out which parameters are "dirty" - if you suddenly decide to play your MIDI sequence anywhere in the timeline. And adjusts them to correct values.

For example: A MIDI sequence contains a panorama fade for a certain MIDI channel in the beginning. And this fade reaches from the very left to the very right. And now you just open this MIDI sequence, and start playing it somewhere in the middle where this fade lies minutes before, the panorama-value will be sent by MIDI Locator with the "very right" value, before it actually begins to play your sequence in the middle. And this happens for nearly all "dirty" values of common controllers, of instrument-selections, even of NRPN controller-combinations and many important Sysex-message Values (like "use for rythm" etc.).

In other words, you don't need to play a MIDI sequence from the beginning to send the latest event states to your MIDI device.

Set a mark in the checkbox "adjust controller values" if you want such behaviour. If you don't set it, MIDI Locator will work like any other sequencer, and won't send anything else but what you have defined in your MIDI sequence.

The value "Delay between in ms" is the time MIDI Locator will wait after it sent a controller adjusting MIDI event until it sends the next one. Be aware that MIDI Locator could send many "dirty" controllers to a MIDI output device, which could overload it if you don't set a wait time of at least 5 ms here.

- Send MIDI timing clock

If you set a mark in this checkbox, MIDI Locator will send 24 times per measure the MIDI message F8 "time clock".

There are some MIDI devices available which are able to synchronize to such MIDI event, if they receive it. Normaly unchecked.

• MIDI record/input
  
  - Metronom when recording
  
  Select the key (instrument) of MIDI channel 10, which MIDI Locator should use in the "note on" event which will be send every quarter note, while you record MIDI data.
  
  Uncheck the checkbox, if you don't want to hear such metronome sound.
  
  - MIDI input device (keyboard)
  
  MIDI Locator will listen to this MIDI device for incoming MIDI data all time. It will drive the incoming events to the "MIDI output device" and MIDI channel which is selected in the track view row, where the cursor is blinking ("current track").
  
  - MIDI input device has been switched to local off
  
  If you set a mark in this checkbox, MIDI Locator will drive every incoming MIDI event of the "MIDI input device" to the "MIDI output device" and MIDI channel of the current track.
  
  This is normal behaviour. You want to hear a sound if you press an external MIDI keyboard's key.
  
  Since an external MIDI keyboard normaly only sends the information "key x was pressed in MIDI channel y" you wouldn't hear anything, if MIDI Locator wouldn't forward it to a "MIDI output device" which produces a sound.
  
  However, it is possible to switch many external MIDI keyboards to "LOCAL ON" by device parameters in the keyboard itself, to make them produce a sound by themselves. Mostly, if they have a build-in sound generating unit, like usual entertainer keyboards.
  
  If you have switched your keyboard to "LOCAL ON" (which is not usual if you connect it to a PC and work with sequencers), your external keyboard will produce itself a sound when you hit a key and MIDI Locator would forward the "note on" command a second time to a "MIDI output device" (or produce a second sound by MIDI Locator's Internal Sound Generator).
  
  If this is the case, and your external keyboard should stay in "LOCAL ON " mode because you have personal reasons to do so, you can uncheck the parameter "MIDI input device has been switched to local off", so that at least MIDI Locator can supress the MIDI event echo.
  
  - Split input device
  
  You can split incoming key-related MIDI events from your "MIDI input device" into an area before a cetain key and an area beyond it.
  
  Normaly MIDI Locator is exchanging the incoming MIDI event's MIDI channel with the active selected MIDI channel in the track view's current track.
  
  By this parameters you can make MIDI Locator dynamicaly exchange the incoming MIDI channel of area two to another 2. MIDI channel.
  
  So you can drive "note on" events of the left side of your external MIDI keyboard to MIDI channel with an active bass-instrument and the right side to a lead instrument, for example.
  
  In addition to that, you can shift the original keys of both 2 areas independent octaves up and down.
  
  
• MIDI file load
  
  - Load last used controllers in knobs
  
  When a MIDI file was loaded, this parameter is checked to decide if MIDI Locator should reselect the old controller-knob types which were active in each track, when you saved the MIDI file.
  
  
  
  - Autoselect most appearing controllers in kobs
  
  Instead of reselecting old types you can make MIDI Locator look which controller types appear most, every time you reload your sequence. And let it select those controller types for the 3 controller knobs in each track.
  
  So you can see with a single view after file load, which controllers were used the most by yourself or a foreign MIDI sequence's author.
  
  - Map device names in MIDI files to installed MIDI output devices
  
  Normaly, if a MIDI file was loaded, it will "on play" be driven to the "MIDI output device", which is the current "default MIDI output device" (button "is default" in the device strip).
  
  Because it is selected in every track after file load, by default.
  
  Only if a MIDI sequence's track contains the MIDI event "META devicename", MIDI Locator tries to find and open the named device, and select (and later drive) this single track to it.
  
  But this can only happen, if the named device equals one of your system's "MIDI output devices".
  
  In this paramter grid you can enter a mapping for foreign device names in MIDI sequences and device names in your system.
  
  
  
• Piano Roll
  
  - Fine grid 1/32 resolution
  
  If you mark this checkbox, the background grid of the Piano Roll will have columns of thirty-sec. note-length. The grid is more "detailed".
  
  
• MIDI 2 .wav
  
  - Task priority
  
  Set the priority for processor time consumption while rendering a MIDI sequence to a WAVE file with the "MIDI to .wav" function of "MIDI Locator's Internal Sound Generator".
  
  If you don't set this parameter to "idle time only", wave rendering can even be impossible to interrupt until it is finished.
  
  
• Karaoke
  
  - Open karaoke window on play
  
  - Insert missing blank behind each text fragment
  
  - Song text track
  
  - Song text event is text instead of lyric
  
  - Maximum numbers of measures in one text row
  
  see topic "Karaoke"
  
  
• Wave editor devices
  
  
  
  - Wave editor playback device
  
  Set the audio device which is used if you open a wave editor, open a wave file and start playing the wave file
  
  - Wave editor record device
  
  Set the record device which is used for recording audio in the wave editor