To assign an instrument to an internal MIDI sound If you would like to playback through MIDI using your computer's speakers, you can use PrintMusic's built-in General MIDI synthesizer ('SmartMusic SoftSynth') or your internal sound card's synthesizer. to use an external MIDI keyboard or sound module for playback.to use General MIDI sounds to ensure your score will sound basically the same on any computer.to use fewer computer resources than required by VST playback.There are many reasons you might choose to use MIDI sounds for playback: If MIDI > Play PrintMusic Through MIDI is selected, PrintMusic uses the MIDI sound settings assigned to instruments for playback. Close the Score Manager and playback to audition your selected sound.Select the desired sound, ensuring the slot used for the sound corresponds to the channel assigned to the instrument in the Score Manager. Under the Sound column, click Edit Player to open the 3rd party VST interface.(The bank for each instrument is listed under the Bank column of the Score Manager). If the same device is used for the 17th channel, PrintMusic loads the device into the next available bank in the VST Banks & Effects dialog box and channel numbering starts again at 1. The next time you choose this device, PrintMusic automatically uses the same bank and assigns the instrument to the next channel, 2 (then 3, 4, etc.) up to 16 channels. If this is the first time you've used the device in the document, it is automatically loaded into the next available bank in the VST Banks & Effects dialog box and assigned to channel 1 in the Score Manager. Click the Device column for the instrument you would like to assign and choose your VST device.Choose MIDI > Play PrintMusic Through VST.To assign 3rd party VST sounds to instruments Note: Consult the documentation accompanying your 3rd party VST library to ensure it is properly installed on your computer. PrintMusic allows you to manually assign any VST sound to one of your score Instruments using the Score Manager. Use these instructions to change the sound assignment for existing scores, which can be particularly useful when working with older scores created in earlier versions of PrintMusic, or when opening the file on a computer with a different sound configuration.

For new scores created with the Setup Wizard and instruments added with the Score Manager, PrintMusic automatically chooses the best channel assignments for the instruments used in your score. Whether you are using VST or MIDI for playback, you can easily change the instrument sound. (Sounds are loaded at playback, when opening the VST Banks & Effects dialog, or when making edits to the Score Manager.) For files last saved in PrintMusic 2011 or earlier, the Staff Name appears in place of the missing device prior to loading sounds. Prior to loading sounds, files last saved in PrintMusic 2014 will list the VST plug-in. If a PrintMusic file is opened on a computer lacking a device used in the document, PrintMusic will display '(missing)' under the Device column for all instruments assigned to that device in the Score Manager after sounds have been loaded. Note: Playback sound assignments are saved with the document. You are here: Configuring instrument playback

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