MIDI help

[sakopp]

I have a MIDI setup that I use maybe once or twice a year. I don’t know very much about MIDI, just what I need to get by. Unfortunately, it seems like every time I go to use my system I have to figure everything out again.

I’m using Metro 4.5 on a G3 Titanium PowerBook, running OS 9, and OMS, connected to a Yamaha P-250. As far as I can tell, everything is connected correctly. I’m opening a file that uses 7 different channels (a different voice on each channel). It worked just fine 6 months ago, but now it appears to be sending everything to a single channel. In Metro it sure looks like it is set for 7 different channels, so perhaps the P-250 is not in poly mode or something. The first note plays with the correct instrument, but the rest of the notes appear to play with the last instrument sent to the P-250. So that would seem to suggest that there’s nothing wrong on the computer side. But I’ve looked everywhere and can’t find anything that appears to be set wrong on the P-250 (the manual is not much help).

As I said, I had this figured out before and now it’s driving me crazy that it doesn’t work. Does anyone out there have any suggestions for me?

Thanks a bunch.

[Jerm]

I am not familiar with the P-250 but if you email me the document I can tell you if it is set up properly. Unfortunately we cannot offer support for such an old product. You might think about upgrading.

[Scoot]

Do you have the instrument names of the P-250 displayed inside metro?
In the setup menu there is the option PROGRAM NAMES, where you can load in a .ins file of the device names you're using.

With everything plugged in and turned on you can go to the special menu and choose MODIFY INSTRUMENTS AND BUSSES to allocate ports to the P-250.


Then it's just a matter of going to the tracks window and changing the popups for PORT (output), BANK and PGM to the ones you want to use.


Once configured correctly, go to the prefs and SAVE the setup and it will remain that way until you dave it off again - as in you will get so many quicktime ports........so many ports allocated to the P-250 etc.


Metro 4.5 is remarkably slow.

[sakopp]

Thanks for the advice, guys. Looks like the problem was with the keyboard settings after all. After resetting the factory defaults, everything was happy again.