Re: midi for orchestral scores

[Ralf Mattes]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:07:40 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Nils writes:
> 
>> Yes. 16 sounds because we have 16 channels max. And you can double two
>> horns on one channel but you can't pan one to the left and one to the
>> right.
>> So in the end its 16 instruments + tricks like sharing one instrument
>> patch for all strings.
> 
> Yes, we have at least three ways of writing midi files now.  There are
> at least two theoretical ways of setting many more instruments than 16
> and we support two (using ports and instrument per track, ignoring
> channel); but as far as I know there are no midi players that handle
> those.

Both seq24 and qtractor open such files without any problems.

 Cheers, RalfD


> Jan