From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2002-10-01 08:21:05
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Guillaume Laurent wrote: > I do have instruments if I start with an empty document, I get empty > drop downs when loading mozart-quartet. Yeah, you really need to get your terminology straight. Instruments correspond to channels on physical devices, and programs correspond to the individual instrument sounds playable on those channels. In MIDI terms, a program actually causes an event to be sent (the program change, no less) to the device to request that it play a particular sort of sound from here on on the given channel. I think. Maybe my own terminology is not all that straight either. Speaking of instruments, I'm having trouble with being able to see (or rather, not being able to see) which instrument is set for each channel. The number at the end of my emu10k instrument name gets chopped off at the end of the label, and the click-and-hold popup menu gives no indication of which instrument is current. (The menu might be easily enhanced to do that -- I could look at that myself. Although actually I'd probably rather see Rename Track and Change Instrument functions on the menus, with a dialog for the latter.) Chris |