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Testing Your MIDI Setup

When you have installed QuickScore Elite, you should test that it will play properly with your setup.

Start QuickScore Elite by selecting it from the Start -> Programs menu or by double-clicking on the QuickScore Elite program icon. Click on the File menu and choose Open. Double-click on the file TEST.QSD to load this file. Press the SPACE BAR to play this file.

If you hear music, all is well. If not, check that QuickScore Elite is using the right MIDI driver. Click on the Options menu and choose MIDI Setup Make sure MIDI out is set to the correct driver. If the driver you want is not selected, select it by clicking in the drop-down list box and clicking on the driver. Now try playing again.

If you don't hear music, maybe you haven't set up your computer properly to play music. To check, close QuickScore Elite and load the Windows Media Player. (It is in the Windows Accessories group.) Load a MIDI file. (When you go to open a MIDI file, you will see CANYON.MID, which comes with Windows.) Try playing this file with the Media Player by clicking on the play button. If you hear sound, you know that your computer is properly hooked up. If you don't, you must first set things up properly before QuickScore Elite can work.

You must have an appropriate MIDI driver loaded on your system for your MIDI interface or sound card. If you have a MIDI interface, make sure all your connections are as they should be. Refer to the discussion of the Control Panel in your Windows User's Guide for details on Windows MIDI drivers.

How to edit tools?

The Score Editor, the Piano Roll Editor and the Controller Editor each have a palette of editing tools to the left in their control areas. To edit, enter, delete or move objects around you need to select the correct tool. The shape of the tool will give you some clue as to its function. Here is a brief rundown of the functions of the most used editing tools:

• Use the arrow tool to select objects for editing.
• Use the pencil tool to enter objects.
• Use the eraser tool to delete objects.
• Use the tools with the arrows on them to move objects around.

How to set MIDI input and output?

Select the MIDI Setup menu item from the Options menu to change the MIDI in and MIDI out port that QuickScore Elite will be using.

Select a MIDI input driver from the MIDI in list box. The MIDI input drivers listed are the ones that are installed in your system. Select a MIDI output driver from the MIDI out list box. The MIDI output drivers listed are the ones that are installed in your system.

How to record in a step time?

Click on the step entry button in the main control area to enable or disable step entry from a MIDI keyboard. When the step entry button is highlighted, step entry is enabled. Step entry is a very useful way to enter music. Notes played on the keyboard will be entered at the cursor point in the active window. The duration of the notes entered is the duration value set in the durations palette. After a note is entered using step entry, the cursor moves ahead by the duration value. Step entry always merges the entered note with the notes already in your track. You can step enter a chord, by playing all the notes of the chord at once on your MIDI keyboard. Make sure you play the notes all at the same time and then wait a half second or so to play the next note or chord, so that successive notes or chords do not end up at the same time. (QuickScore Elite needs a gap between notes to distinguish them from imperfectly played chords.)

How to use ReWire?

QuickScore Elite can be used as a ReWire master. First, ReWire must be activated. Start QuickScore Elite and click the ReWire button in the Audio Mixer, or choose ReWire from the Options menu.

Make sure ReWire Active is checked. From the Device list box, choose the ReWire slave device you want to work with. From the Outputs list box, choose the number of outputs you want to be sent from the ReWire slave device to QuickScore Elite’s Audio Mixer. Sometimes limiting this number can ensure that audio processing is not overloaded. Click on Open Panel to open the ReWire device. (Not all slave devices will respond to this command.If the ReWive slave device does not respond, it must be started from Windows itself.) In this example, we will use Propellerhead’s Reason as the slave device. Reason will start. A green ReWire strip will appear in the Audio Mixer named Reason at the top. Now when Reason plays audio, its audio output will go through this strip to QuickScore’s audio output. The audio can be processed like any other audio input to the Audio Mixer.

In the ReWire dialog, you can choose one or more instruments as instruments for QuickScore to use. To do so, from the list of available instruments, choose one by double-clicking on it or by clicking on it and then clicking on the left arrow button. The instrument entry will appear in the active list.

Select the output and channel or channels on which you want your ReWire instrument to play. Now any notes and other MIDI events with the channel or channels you’ve chosen that are on the track or tracks whose output in the Track Sheet is the same is the one you’ve chosen will play with the ReWire instrument.

You must close all ReWire slave devices before closing the ReWire master (QuickScore), or before shutting down ReWire. (To shut down ReWire, uncheck ReWire Active in the ReWire dialog). If you try to shut down ReWire, or close QuickScore, before closing all slave devices, you will be reminded that the ReWire slave or slaves are still running, and QuickScore will not close.