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Manual

MIDI output device strips
MIDI output device parameter
Track controls
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List editor
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Audio record
Wave editor

• Track name control
  
  
  
  Free editable text. It is saved as META event 0x03 hex in the beginning of the track if you save the sequence.
  
  
• Device selection control
  
  
  
  Select the track's MIDI output device, manually.
  
  
• Mute switches
  
  
  
  The blue switch turns a track to a solo track, other tracks are muted. Select more than one track to a solo track by holding the <ctrl> key on your keyboard, while clicking the blue switch.
  
  The red switch disables a track for output (mute).
  
  
• MIDI channel control
  
  
  
  This is the current MIDI channel of the track. The current MIDI channel changes by playing your MIDI sequence: the last sent MIDI event's MIDI channel will be set in this control, automatically. So it can visible change to different channels while you play your sequence, if different MIDI channels are used in the track's MIDI data.
  
  If MIDI data is received at the MIDI input device, for example if you record MIDI data, the MIDI channel of the incomming events will be exchanged with the current MIDI channel of the MIDI channel control. You can set the 'record MIDI channel' with it. But this will only have an affect, if no MIDI events in the record track change it. If you want to be sure that the selected MIDI channel is used, set the cursor behind the last measure in the record track. And start recording.
  
  

  Please note that the track controls "Program name", "Volume", "Control 1", "Control 2" and "Control 3 " refer to the current MIDI channel. If you change the MIDI channel, they will show the current device states of the selected MIDI channel.

  
  
  
• Program name control
  
  
  
  It shows the current active selected instrument program in the MIDI output device of the current MIDI channel of the track.
  
  While you play a MIDI sequence, the MIDI event "program change" will change this value, automatically. You can select and send another program selection to the track's MIDI output device, if you click on the control. The selected program will only be inserted in your MIDI sequence for later reselection, if you set a mark in the checkbox "also insert (and remove old) MIDI events in the beginning of track".
  
  
• Tick offset
  
  
  
  This control is not influenced by MIDI data while you play a sequence, it is your pesonal selected tick offset value inside MIDI Locator for that track.
  
  What's that?
  
  Sometimes you want to move a whole track on the timeline a little bit to the left or the right. For example if it contains notes for a string-program. You hear that the track is basically good, but the string sound is a little bit to slow, you would like to move all MIDI events of that track some ticks to the left, to get the notes triggered earlier.
  
  With this control you can add or subtract some ticks from a MIDI sequence's track's event positions before they are send to the MIDI output device. You nearly do the same as if you have used the edit function "Move", but the MIDI events are not really destructive moved in the sequence. With this control you can try out different MIDI event position changes without changing the real MIDI event positions.
  
  If a tick offset is not zero, it is stored in the MIDI sequence by the META event "text" (0x01 hex) with the text "LOC:TICKOFFSET:xxx", where xxx is the tick offset.
  
  This is hidden from you, the events will be catched by MIDI Locator at load time, you won't ever see these MIDI events in the event editor, you only see the old selected tick offsets in each track.
  
  
• Controller 1 / Controller 2 / Controller 3
  
  
  
  Free assignable knobs. Select a common controller, a NRPN controller (subclass of common controller-combinations) or even a Key-based instrument controller. The control will show the current device's state of the selected controller. If you turn the knob, the resulting MIDI event will be sent to the device.
  
  The selected controller types are saved in your MIDI sequence as "META text" events, which have a special code that MIDI Locator recognizes them the next time you load this MIDI sequence (like the tick offset). So MIDI Locator can select your last selected controller types automatically the next time you load the sequence. MIDI Locator will not show these META events in the MIDI event editor (list editor), they are "catched" in the moment of file load.
  
  If you don't want such behaviour, you can deselect the mark in the "Load last used controllers" checkbox inside MIDI Locator's settings / category "MIDI file load". But the controller type selections will be saved in your sequence, anyway. They will only not make MIDI Locator select other controllers the next time your load the sequence.