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From: erlingh@idt.unit.no (Erling Henanger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Using more than one MIDI track
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Date: 25 Apr 91 21:53:45 GMT
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> Roland JUNO Keyboard it all seems to work nicely, but I can't get my 
> keyboard to do more than one MIDI track at a time!  I can change any of the 
> program settings but it seems that I can still only get one MIDI track to 

Well, of the Roland JUNO synths I know, none of them are capable of playing more than
one sound at the time. (Juno 60, Juno 106, any more ?)
What you can do, is to have several tracks using the same midi-channel, and then use one
of them for base, one for chords. etc, but you will only have the same sound on all tracks.
You'll have to get hold of a multi timbral synth if you wanna do more than one sound of the time,
and then you can have different sounds on different midi-channels. Roland's MT-32 is a cheap way
to go for starters, and there are lotsa games written that uses this synth on Ataris and IBM's.
(Dunno about the Amiga, but if the SIERRA series of games are ported to it, I guess they've 
implemented the midi-part there as well.)
If your Roland synth _is_ multi-timbral, please take no notice of me :-)
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