On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Nycholas Maia <[email protected]> wrote:

> How can I know if Sibelius/Finale will send me a MIDI message for *this
> type of music information?*
>

There are special VST MIDI plugins which let you see all MIDI that passes
though them. Like ctrlr (http://ctrlr.org/), which is open-source and
cross-platform. ctrlr can be a bit daunting at first, since its primary
purpose is to create VST panels for hardware synths and expose their MIDI
controls as automatable parameters to VST hosts. But you can just insert it
into your MIDI track and open its MIDI log to see what exactly goes into
the plugin. I'm not sure whether Sibelius or Finale can handle a pure MIDI
plugin like ctrlr, though.

But the easiest solution probably is, as Stephen suggested, to see whether
Sibelius can output MIDI to a MIDI device and monitor the output with a
program like MidiMonitor (http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/). Another
useful utility is the MIDI Patchbay (http://notahat.com/midi_patchbay/).
Also set up a few virtual MIDI devices (look for the IAC devices in your
Mac's Audio and MIDI setup). Together these will give you roughly the same
facilities as qjackctl on Linux or MidiOx on Windows. I find these
indispensable when working with MIDI on the Mac.

In any case, you really need to familiarize yourself with MIDI first. :) I
recommend reading through Jeff Glatt's MIDI pages mirrored at
http://www.blitter.com/~russtopia/MIDI/~jglatt/.

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany
Email:  [email protected]
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