GPO/Aria Player in X1 - How to?

The numbered boxes refer to the channels so you have to match your channels to the box or vice versa.

Also over on the right side under where it says mixer the CC that affect the instrument are shown here so that you know which controllers you can use with a particular instrument you have chosen.

Eric, there is a box on the left with GPO default programs.. if you load up one of them, it'll show you what it does with the other sections.

and you just load up one of them if you want a quickstart.. and wait for the sounds to load in. the keyboard range is shown at the bottom IRC

HumbleNoise


Still only get it to work with MIDI OMNI which plays all instruments all the time unless I mute or Solo from the Aria mixer. Tried a thousand combinations. I guess what I'm looking for is to select a MIDI track and have the associated instruments play when that track is selected. But there's no information being transmitted from any MIDI channel except Channel 1 or OMNI.

HumbleNoise


Yeah got it working Randy thanks SO much for the help.

I had the OMNI setting set up in Aria (or not I can't remember) but anyway I'm busy setting up a track template so I can recreate the set up. Thanks again

BTW your PM box is full.

rbowser


Thanks, HumbleNoise, for alerting me via PM about this thread.

All the needed info is on this thread, but it's jumbled, and not clear.  Let me attempt to spell out the settings needed to get full multi-timbral usage out of Aria in X1.

1-- Insert Aria, asking for all audio tracks in the insert synth dialogue, and load with the instruments you want.

2-- Add 15 more MIDI channels, since Sonar will add all the audio channels for you, but still doesn't insert more than one MIDI track at a time.

3--Direct all MIDI tracks to the 16 separate MIDI channels in Aria:
--------In the Inspector, towards the bottom of the left hand strip, choose Aria.
--------In the Inspector, towards the top, under the FX bin, choose separate MIDI channels for each track, using the "C" button, as mentioned by Grudunza.

4--Set separate audio outs for each instrument slot in Aria.  In the gray strip under each instrument's name, the 4th item from the left is where you choose the pair of stereo outs.  There are 16 stereo pairs available in Aria, numbered 1/2 through 31/32.

5--Leave the Ins of the MIDI tracks to OMNI.

6--Leave your keyboard at the default of sending on MIDI channel 1.  That is a master setting for all 16 tracks in the one instance of Aria - you don't change that.  The MIDI channel which is actually played when you have focus on a given track is determined by the channel setting in step 3 above.

NOTE:  It keeps things less confusing if you leave the 16 MIDI channel assignments as they come up by default in Aria.  That way each slot number corresponds to the channel number - AND it's also easiest if you simply assign the audio channels so they also correspond.  So, for instance, the first instrument is #1, on MIDI channel 1, on stereo out 1.

I don't think I've left anything out.  Step through this at an un-rushed pace, and you'll have GPO working the way it should in X1.

Randy B.