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Originally Posted by Crochetty
Thank you for your quick reply. I continued playing with the setup last night and eventually it worked, which was a relief.
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Great
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However, I seem to have another problem:
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To use a programmer's joke: "It's not a problem, it's a feature!" (and actually it is - read below.)
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Having played a MIDI file through the keyboard I find that it is no longer possible to play it through the laptop's speakers (or extension speakers) - and in the latest example of this it will not play again through the keyboard either.
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Actually it is possible. This is where selecting the MIDI Playback Device comes in. You can use various playback devices, depending on what you want to hear and where you want to hear it.
To do these settings all in one location, you can click Staff/Setup, ahd you'll see a big dialog box come up, which shows you all the staves you have in your score. If you want to have all of them play through your keyboard, you can click the "Device" heading, and select which MIDI Device you want to use for all the staves (eg. GS Wavetable, USB MIDI cable, or whatever). Then select which Bank (if applicable) and click OK. You can switch back and forth between devices easily this way, to compare how files sound using different devices.
If you decide you like the violin in one device better than the violin in a second device, but you prefer all the other instruments playing from the second device, you can set the violin to play from the first device. You do this by clicking it's staff number, and then look down toward the bottom of the dialog and find the Device drop list (just above the Channel droplist). Click the droplist button, and select the first device from the list. Now when you play the file, you'll hear the violin from Device 1, and all the other instruments from Device 2.
ttfn,
Sherry