I'm using a Roland PC-300 MIDI controller connected by USB to my Mac.
This setup works fine for all purposes under OS9, including Finale
input, and for most purposes under OS X as well. The thing is, I would
like from time to time to be able to use the computer as a sound module
directly under OS X -- i.e. to play something on the keyboard and to
hear it from the computer using whatever Soundfont is selected in the
QuickTime preferences. I've tried a couple of applications (iPiano,
SynthTest) which basically patch the keyboard directly into QuickTime,
but they use only the standard QuickTime sounds, regardless of what
SoundFont is selected in the QT settings. I know the SoundFonts work,
because QuickTIme Player uses them for playback. I also tried a Max
patch with a midiin patched straight into a midiout -- but unlike in
OS9, Max for OS X doesn't seem to recognise QuickTime as an output.
So, does anybody know if it's possible to patch an external MIDI
keyboard directly into QuickTime, and have it use the selected
SoundFont? (It would be nice if Apple's "Audio MIDI Setup" utility
recognised QT as an output, so that you could just patch it in, but it
doesn't.)
(BTW, I *can* do this by using the Sibelius demo -- but this is
cumbersome, and of course, it notates everything you play, which I
don't need.)
Thanks
John
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Dr John Croft
Lecturer in Music
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9RQ
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/music/profile145975.html
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