I use Dorico 5 Professional, purchased with an upgrade from Finale 27.
For playback, I use a DOREMIdi Composite Hub hardware with 3 IN/OUTs. I have a score with 32 instruments. To have 32 MIDI channels available, I distributed the outputs across two DOREMIdi outputs, one going to RA90 and the other to BKMm7, both from Roland. I can’t select the outputs for each instrument. Does anyone know how to do this?
Carlo - Italy
Have you created separate MIDI Instruments for the two devices?
… and then assigned those, with 1… 16 channels, for the instruments?
Ma a me non si vede quel MIDI Instrument. Dove lo seleziono?
In the “VST and MIDI” panel, in Play mode.
You create MIDI instruments for hardware devices, and then use them in the same way as VST instruments.
Yes, I saw. Thanks.
But do I have to create an output for each track? If there are 32 tracks, do I have to create 32 outputs (MIDI instruments)?
No, one instrument for the RA90, and another for the BKMm7.
Then in the Track Inspector, send your first Dorico instrument to the RA90 on channel 1.
Instrument 2, on channel 2.
…
Then your 17th Dorico instrument, you send to BKMm7 on channel 1.
… eccetera.
I tried with four instruments, two on RA90 and three on BKm7. I assigned channels and outputs. I pressed play, and the music is audible. However, I only hear the piano playing. Perhaps because I didn’t assign a Program Change number to each instrument. For example, the violin is number 49 for both RA90 and BKm7, as it’s in Roland GS. How do I assign Program Changes to each instrument?
Thanks for your patience, but I’m new to Dorico. I was pretty good with Finale!
Setting up MIDI/audio routing to your own hardware is an “advanced topic”, I’d suggest.
I would recommend using the built-in Playback Templates to start with.
The only way I know of setting the Program is within Expression maps. So you would have to create a different expression map for 16 instruments, each with a different channel setting.
Can you not configure the hardware directly with 16 instruments, and save that on-board?
OK. I’ll try these expression maps. If I run into complications or delays, I think I’ll put Dorico aside and switch to MuseScore… or FINALE until it works.
You’ll have to configure the routing for each instrument in any application. I can’t see things being much easier in either of those.
One good thing about Dorico is that once you have set up everything as you want it, you can save it as a Playback Template, so that it will work for every new document.
Maybe you’re right. I’m still trying to experiment with Dorico.
I’m trying to create a cumulative expression map for the instruments.
By the way, I found how to insert Program Changes.
Now I just need to figure out how to insert a SysX to set the RA90 module in GS with this hexadecimal string: F0 41 10 42 12 40 00 7F 00 41 F7.
Do you know anything about this?
