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The External MIDI mode is displayed while in ReWire
mode. Whenever you open a sequencer on the same
computer as GigaStudio using the quick launch tool bar button, the MIDI mode is au-
tomatically changed to External MIDI. You cann manually toggle the mode of the MIDI
loop by clicking on the tiny keyboard area of the MIDI Port display.
Linking MIDI Ports
A simple method of quickly combining or layering instruments is to use the port
linking mode. When one port is linked to one or more additional ports the incoming
MIDI data is duplicated on each linked port. It has the equivalent function of a tradi-
tional hardware MIDI thru box.
Click on the port boxes to toggle the link status
of the individual ports. They will turn a bright green
color when linked.
Additional ports must be linked to Port 1. Any other combination of linked ports is
possible. With the Port Link Mode active, all 16 MIDI channels of the incoming MIDI at
port 1 is duplicated (MIDI thru) at each of the linked ports. For example, a sequencer
track can be playing a melody at Port 1 channel 3 on a flute. You can layer this flute mel-
ody with a viola on port 3 channel 3 and a Spanish guitar on port 4 channel 3. Any MIDI
received on port 1 will be sent to the corresponding channels of each of the linked ports.
If no instruments are loaded, MIDI messages will be ignored.
Any un-linked ports will receive incoming MIDI in normal mode. In the above ex-
ample with 5 ports linked, the remaining ports 2, 6, and 8 will not receive the MIDI thru
from any of the other port channels. With up to eight MIDI ports, this makes for a very
flexible setup in which to use a combination of channel stacking and port linking in
very creative ways.
The default dim green color of the ports indicates
they are active but unlinked.
Memory allocation for loaded samples. Displays the amount of
system RAM available to pre-cache GigaStudio Instruments.
Memory Allocation
Note: the CPU and Memory meters reflect the percentage of processing or memory
not including that required to run the system. Once the OS is running GigaStudio mea-
sures the remaining system resources.