Some problems in MC5

Hi everbody,

I have some problems in Music Creator 5. I will list then. If anyone can solve then, i will apreciate this.

1) When I create a staff in Guitar Track I can't hear the notes I write them. At the piano and drums tracks i can hear. Why?

2) I created a Drums track with the staff, but, when I save the file in midi format, the mid file have only a piano sound, not drums sound. Why?

3) Everyone knows if I can change the tempo in some part of the staff? In some parts of the drums track I would more fast, and others i would more slow. When I change, the tempo is the same for the full track.

4) I can't run the midi's files that i downloaded from internet.

My soundcard is Creative Sound Blaster MPU-401.

Thanks, and sorry for my bad english.

Glaucio

To use different tempos in the song, you need to go to Insert at the top and click Time/Meter Change. Set the tempo and the time you want the new tempo to begin.

Thanks, Greg! I will do this! :)

Open to Options>Audio at the top and tell us what your Driver Mode is. If it's MME, then the sound you hear when you enter notes is probably the Microsoft GS Wavetable synthesizer on your computer's sound card. Or it could be the wavetable synth in the Sound Blaster. What does it read as the output of your MIDI tracks?
There are hardware synths like those in MIDI keyboards and MIDI sound modules, and software synthesizers, which are software emulations of hardware synths. MC 5 comes with several soft synths, including TTS-1. Click the Insert button at the top, then Soft Synths and you can see which soft synths you have available. Clicking one of them will load it in the project. Changing the output of an existing MIDI track will let you hear the MIDI notes through the soft synth.
You need to set the Output, MIDI channel, Patch and possibly the Bank in each MIDI track. MIDI tracks using the same channel through the same synth will sound the same regardless of the patch you select; they should all be on different channels.