Teac GigaStudio 3 - Manual (Page 58)

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Playing Instruments
There are three ways to play a loaded instrument.
1. Set your MIDI controller keyboard to channel 1 and connect a keyboard/sequencer
to the GigaStudio computer via the MIDI interface configured for MIDI port 1.
2. Your keyboard/sequencer may be set to use a port other than 1 and a MIDI chan-
nel other than 1. In this case you should select the corresponding port and channel
in GigaStudio so that this selection will have the focus of the QuickSound Loader. For
example, enable audition mode, select port 6 channel 3, and each subsequent load by
double-click will be placed at port 6 – channel 3. To audition and load on another chan-
nel simply click on another port channel.
3. Use the GigaStudio Virtual Keyboard display. First select a port and channel with
the instrument loaded and play the Virtual Keyboard with your mouse.
See more about the behavior and control of this keyboard at Reference->Virtual Key-
board.
While you are playing a controller keyboard or sequencer, there are three visual indi-
cators to monitor the incoming MIDI.
On the status bar, the MIDI port activity monitor changes from green to red upon
receiving MIDI messages.
The MIDI Mixer port channel velocity meter lights up to reflect the velocity of the
incoming note-on messages. The level indicator will remain active until a note-off mes-
sage is received.