MIDI Connection

[pasithea]

So, I started to get started on my animation stuff. Decided the first step was to get the Midi output thing working properly. Joy of joys, this turned out not to be anything even remotely like simple. GarageBand doesn't do MIDI output. *sigh* After a bit of searching, Caspian on FM found me this. http://home.comcast.net/~retroware/ It took some tinkering but yay! It seems to work. I've tried 4 channels concurrently (More than I'll likely use for a while) and the trickest bit seems to be setting which voice it's using without clobbering the voice for another channel. (You have to lock the speakers for the other channels and then channel up or channel down on the keyboard, play once, and then lock that channel (ALL channels that are unlocked will be changed so you haveta be careful about that) the downside is that it doesn't save the instrument if the keyboard is powered off so a little note-taking is required to store this information in the notes section of the track. Ohwell. For single-session stuff it's good though and it perserves through closing and re-opening garage band, just not cycling the keyboard.
The short form is that it'll work for my needs. Yay! Now what was I doing again?

Oh right. Animation.