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logicpro8user
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Very basic Midi/Logic advice needed!
      #907988 - 13/04/11 07:59 PM
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Hi,

I appreciate this will sound like very, very simple stuff but it has been bugging me for a while and I would really like to know the answer:

When using Apple DLS Music Device in Logic 8 I am only able to access the 128 GM Sounds that are in "Quicktime Music Synthesizer".
However, I know there are loads more GS based sounds such as 60's Strings and 60's Electric Piano but I don't know how to input the relevant bank changes to access these.

I have read all about GM Midi 2, MSB/LSB etc etc but none of it seems to make any sense.

I can see and hear all the various GM/GS in tiny apps like SimpleSynth (Apple DLS Soundset) and would just like to know how to incorporate these into Logic 8.

I know how to use Soundfonts but would like to know how to access the sounds straight from the internal "Quick Time Music Synthesizer" via the Apple DLS Music Device audio unit.

Thanks for any help!!


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Re: Very basic Midi/Logic advice needed! new [Re: logicpro8user]
      #908028 - 13/04/11 11:12 PM
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I don't use the internal QT synth ('cos its ghastly) but I had a quick look and it seems to only have one bank of 128 patches and drum sounds, not additional banks, despite trying a variety of bank change messages.

Are you saying you *know* the QT synth has multiple sound banks? (If so, can you give me the procedure to verify that here?).

GS or XG variation banks are Roland & Yamaha standards only, and are unlikely to be in OSX as far as I know...

"The most notable addition [in GS] was the ability to address multiple banks of programs (instrument sounds) by using an additional pair of Bank Select controllers to specify up to 16384 'variation' sounds (cc#0 is Bank Select MSB, and cc#32 is Bank Select LSB). "

The quicktime synth does not bank change to anything different using this standard bank select command, from my quick tests.

Edited by desmond (13/04/11 11:17 PM)


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