F. Viewing and Changing Instruments

1. The Channels Screen

This screen allows you to view the instruments that are used on each channel.

Tap the Names box to view General MIDI names or the Numbers box to view instrument numbers. 1-128 are used, as opposed to 0-127. 0 means unknown. Only the instruments in the current song are displayed.

Before a song begins, only those instruments known before the first note are displayed. In Practice Loop mode, the instruments known before the first note of the specified measure will be displayed.

The instruments will change during play as specified by the song. When the song changes, the channels will change to display the instruments played in the new song. Unknown instruments in new songs are cleared.

An activity bar will appear next to the channels in use. Channels that are enabled have their numbers highlighted in black. To mute a channel, tap on its number.

You can edit the sounds a song uses by selecting "program mapping" in the options menu.

A Chart of the complete list of General MIDI instrument names and corresponding numbers is available in the help menu.

2. Screen Elements

   This section describes the items on the Channels Screen as they appear from left to right and top to bottom.

1. Song Title

This shows the current song's title and a portion of the note, if any. Click here to edit the song's note.

2. Mute Buttons

Tap these to mute channels. Channels with white buttons are muted.

3. Instruments

These are the instruments used on each channel. '0' and '-' signify unknown.

4. Names

This button causes General MIDI program names to be displayed.

5. Numbers

This button causes program numbers to be displayed. Instrument numbers range from 1-128.

 

3. Changing Instruments

To change a song's programs, select "Program Mapping" in the options menu. Program mapping can be used to change the sounds a song uses. The Player allows you to remap up to 5 sounds per song.

First, select one of the five maps: A,B,C,D, or E. Make sure the Enabled box is checked. To change sounds, select the current program in the From field. Then select the desired program in the To field. For example, if From is piano and To is bird tweet, all piano sounds will become bird tweets. Like other settings, this is saved with the song in the current Playlist.

If a program is selected in From, and the To field is set to OFF, that patch will not be sent. This can be useful if you want to manually set it from a synthesizer. If From is set to ALL, the To setting will apply to all patches.

The maps are processed in order from A to E. The first map that matches a program will be used. For example, if A was set "From trumpet To bagpipes", and B was "From all To music box", both settings would take effect. But something mapped on C, D, or E, would have no effect.

Normally, these changes do not apply to channel 10 (the drum channel), even if ALL is selected. To have a map apply to drums only, check its "Use this map for drums" checkbox.

It is now possible to switch songs on this screen by using the calendar and memo pad buttons, but be forewarned: before you switch to another song, any settings you enabled will be applied to the current song, even if you mapped every sound to accordian.