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MIDI functionality was incorporated in Orinj to allow you to use the MIDI instruments and create tracks with instruments that you do not have or cannot play. MIDI files can be recorded to wave and inserted into the multitrack session.
To create a new MIDI file, click on File and then on New in the Orinj menu.
To open a MIDI file, click on File and then on Open in the Orinj menu.
Click on File and then on Recent to see the names of MIDI files used recently. Click on one of these files to open it.
To save the MIDI file that you are working with, click on File and then on Save in the Orinj menu. If you want to save the current MIDI file under a different name, click on File and then on Save As.
To close the current MIDI file, click on File and then on Close in the Orinj menu. You may be prompted to save the file if it was never saved before.
To play your MIDI file, click on the play button
()
in the player toolbar at the bottom of Orinj, or click on
Sequencer and then on Play in the Orinj menu. To play only what is visible on the screen,
click on the play screen button
(
)
in the player toolbar at the bottom of Orinj, or click on Sequencer and then on Play Screen
in the Orinj menu. Once the play cursor (the yellow vertical line) reaches the end of what
is visible on screen, playback will stop. To play a portion of your MIDI file in a loop,
select that portion and then click on the play loop button
(
)
in the player toolbar at the bottom of Orinj, or click on Sequencer and then on Play Loop
in the Orinj menu. To make a selection over the MIDI file, first click on the select mouse
pointer
(
)
in the pointer toolbar at the bottom of Orinj, then click
on the MIDI file on screen, and then drag the mouse to the left or the right.
To stop the playback of the MIDI file, click on the stop button
()
in the player toolbar at the bottom of Orinj, or click on Sequencer and the on Stop in the
Orinj menu. The play cursor will return to where playback started.
To pause playback, click on the pause button
()
in the player toolbar at the bottom of Orinj or click on Sequencer and then on Pause in the
Orinj menu. After you pause playback, you can either resume playback or you can stop it.
To fast forward, click on the fast forward button
()
in the player toolbar at the bottom of Orinj. You can fast forward only during playback.
When you release the fast forward button, playback will resume. To rewind playback, click
on the rewind button
(
)
in the player toolbar at the bottom of Orinj. You can similarly rewind only during playback
and playback will resume when you release the rewind button.
If you want to fast forward to the end of the MIDI file, click on the fast forward to end
button
()
or click on Sequencer and then on Fast Forward To End in the Orinj menu. To rewind to the
start of the MIDI file, click on the rewind to start button
(
)
or click on Sequencer and then on Rewind To Start in the Orinj menu. You can fast forward
to the end or rewind to the start both during playback and otherwise.
To change the tempo of your MIDI file, add a tempo control to the file. First, switch the
MIDI control line at the top of Orinj to show the
MIDI tempo controls. Then click on Event and then on Add Control. Alternatively, click on
the draw mouse cursor
()
in the pointer toolbar at the bottom of Orinj and then click on the MIDI control line at
the place where you want to add the tempo control. You will see the following dialog.
Use the dialog to specify the tempo in microseconds per quarter note or in quarter notes per minute. Specify also when the tempo control will be used. The tempo control will not affect the tempo of preceding events and will only determine the tempo for subsequent events until another tempo control is reached.
This tempo is the tempo of the MIDI file. The tempo and time signature settings of the grid and the time signature line are independent of the tempo of the MIDI file and not necessarily consistent with it. You can make the two consistent, but you have to do that separately. To set the tempo and time signature of the grid and the time signature line, click on Sequencer and then on Tempo / Time Signature in the Orinj menu.
To set the tempo and time signature of the MIDI roll view (i.e., grid, time signature line), click on Sequencer and then on Tempo / Time Signature in the Orinj menu. As described above, this will not change the tempo and time signature of the MIDI file itself, but only of the MIDI grid and of the time signature line. See Working with sessions for more information on the tempo and time signature controls employed in Orinj.
See MIDI channel control panel.
In Orinj, you can record a MIDI file to a wave file by playing the MIDI file and recording the playback. The steps to do so are as follows.
When the recording stops, the recorded wave file will be displayed on screen in the Orinj single wave view.