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Re: using stereo in midis

Reply #1 –
For each staff, you can specify in Midi tab of Staff Properties... (F2, or off the right mouse button, or under the Staff menu) the Stereo pan of the staff. 0 is left. 127 is right. 64 is centre.
I often pan out my parts. It gives the pieces a much more spatial feel.

Andrew

Re: using stereo in midis

Reply #2 –
If your sound card supports stereo, then it is not a problem. You can set the pan position for a steff in the MIDI staff properties. Many lesser expensive cards only support left, center, and right side imaging, if they support it at all, so keep this in mind.

Re: using stereo in midis

Reply #3 –
I do have a card that currently upport only left, center and right positions
for midi settings. but there is a way to 'pan' the voice
exactly where you want to : just duplicate the wanted voice
(NOT on the same channel) and adjust the midi VOLUME (not
velocity, as velocity is used for p, pp, fff stuff).
for example for 4 voices, you will set (in SATB choir)
S at 0 (left) position,
A at 0 (left) position and duplicated A on 63 (middle) with a half-volume settings
T at 127 (right) and duplicated T on 63 (middle) with a half-volume settings
B at 127 (right) position.

Or place it otherwise, now you got the idea. (I often add solo voices at 63 (middle) just between other voices.

Hope this helps !