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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. Keep this in mind when you are planning
on using linked ports in a project. You should compose on a port other than port 1 to
avoid having to link its channels by default. 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. So any composing you do with instruments loaded
on these port channels will not be linked to the port 1 channels, nor any of the other
linked ports. 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.
Step-by-Step Review
1. Create a new performance by clicking the toolbar shortcut button.
2. Load instruments and make mix adjustments.
3. “Save As...” and select Instrument Performance (*.gsi) and give the file a name.
Linking Ports
Another method of quickly combining instruments is to use the port linking mode.
When one port is linked to one or more additional ports the incoming MIDI data is du-
plicated on each linked port. It has the equivalent function of a traditional hardware
MIDI thru box.
The MIDI Port Status bar can be found along the
bottom of the GigaStudio interface. The dim green
color of the ports indicates they are unlinked.