
Settings
You can reach MIDI Locator's setting from the main menu
: Settings 
General

- Ticks per quarter note
:
If you have opened
a MIDI file, this parameter allows changes to the ticks per
quarter note resolution of that file. So this value is not
a general parameter, it is the ticks per quarter note
resolution of the current MIDI sequence, and will change with
every loaded MIDI file.
The ticks per quarter note determine how many ticks are
consumed (or passed) in the duration of one quarter note. The
duration of a quarter note is defined by the file's tempo
entri(es).
If you create a new MIDI file, a value of 120 is defaultly set
by MIDI Locator. That means it is possible in the MIDI
editor to set the MIDI event's position tick value between 0
and 119.

A value of 120 would be out of bound (instead you would have
to add one to beat value and to set tick to 0).

If you open a MIDI file and change the ticks per quarter note
value in settings, you change the tick resolution of that
file. That means if you e.g. enter a value which is multiplied
by two on a file based on 4/4 measure, one measure suddenly lasts
a half measure.
In other words, the bigger the ticks per quarter note value of
a file, the finer the possibility to define MIDI event positions
which lie between two positions which are integer quarter note
lengths.
Usual resolutions are :
96, 120, 384
Please note that the maximum tick value which can be set in the
MIDI event position is additional influenced by the current meter
map. If the meter map e.g. declares that this file is working
with a denominator of eight instead of a quarter, the tick value
would have a maximum of a half of the ticks per quarter note
value :

In this example the ticks value would have a maximum of 59

- MIDI Thru :
At any time MIDI Locator is running it listens to incoming
MIDI data at your selected MIDI input device to push it thru
to your MIDI output device. This is the reason why you can hear
a MIDI note when e.g. tapping on a connected MIDI keyboard. This
means that you have to set your external MIDI keyboard to LOCAL
OFF, to prevent double sounds on each tap because otherwise the
keyboard would play sounds when tapping on it - and MIDI Locator
would then send a Note On event to it, too. If you can't switch
your external keyboard to LOCAL OFF, unmark the checkbox MIDI
THRU (echo incoming data).
- Sound effects
Some MIDI edit functions (like quantize, volume and so on) react
with a positive sound if MIDI events were changed and a negative
sound if no MIDI events were found to process (maybe because
of MIDI event filter).
Here you can select if such a notification sound should appear
- Determine and send and Delay between each MIDI event
belong together.
See
separate description of Determine and send
- Reduce data flow with running
status
The running status is a way how MIDI Locator can send
MIDI data to your MIDI output device. A MIDI event is sent with
a statusbyte and additional Databytes. As long as the statusbyte
is not changing (for example if many Note On events of the same
channel appear one after one), this running status drops the
statusbytes which are always the same after the first MIDI event.
This reduces the amount of transfered MIDI bytes. Not unimportant,
because MIDI uses a very slow transfer speed. But not all MIDI
devices understand that running status behaviour. If your
MIDI file sounds terrible, with only single correct notes between
hundrets of noise sounds, uncheck this setting.
- Send
MIDI time clock F8 on play
If you enable this checkbox, MIDI Locator will send 24
times a measure the MIDI message "time clock".
This can make other MIDI devices be able to synchronize with
MIDI Locator.
- Route MIDI IN Note Ons
beyond key ... to channel ...
This parameter influences the Note On/Off events which come from
your MIDI input device (external keyboard). If you mark the checkbox,
the MIDI channel of your incoming Note On/Off events will be
exchanged with the channel which is set here, if the original
notes keys lie beyond the set border key. The notes in front
of this key will keep the original sent channel (if track's channel
combo box is set to '--'). This way you can pretend two external
keyboards instead of one. Please note that MIDI Locator's own
Virtual Keyboard will always send Note On events with the channel
which is set on the Virtual Keyboard, those Note Ons are not
influenced by this parameter.
Karaoke
See desciption karaoke
Audio

- Interpolate inside filewriter
and wave editor's paste function
Interpolation means that if a sample has to be stretched by MIDI
Locator to reach the desired destination pitch, it calculates
hypothetical samples between actually exsisting samples instead
of falling back of the actually samples. This decreases vague
audible high frequent sideeffect sounds. A difference to off
switched interpolation is best noticeable in greater dynamic
and clearness if many voices sound at the same time.
- Taskpriority wave rendering
This influences the rendering speed of MIDI Locator's
Virtual Sample Player's filewriter. You can even change
this parameter while a filewriting is in process.
- Filewriter : Resolution
of .wav file to be rendered
Just select if MIDI Locator's filewriter (of Virtual
Sample Player) should create a 16 or 24 bit .wav file. A
24 bit wave file with 96 kHZ also leads to a better internal
sound quality while rendering, because more samples of uneven
calculations can be used. It is always better to render with
24 bit, 96 kHz, even if it lasts longer, and remix it back to
a 44.1 kHz file instead of directly render with 44.1 kHz. If
you want Studio production quality.
Record MIDI

- Metronome while recording
Mark or unmark this checkbox depending on if you want to be led
in tempo by a metronom sound while recording a session.
- Combo box Drum Instrument
This drum instrument is used as the metronom sound.
Devices

- MIDI output device
The MIDI output device is the device where all MIDI events
will be sent which channels are not routed to Virtual Sample
Player. Only one output device is possible at the same time.
- MIDI input device
The MIDI input device is the device where MIDI Locator
listens to incoming MIDI data. Only one input device is possible
at the same time.
- Power-on mode
Tell MIDI Locator which MIDI mode is set in your MIDI
output device if you start it (or if you have turned on your
PC, if it is a soundcard). Then MIDI Locator can show
the correct mode at Current device mode in the workspace,
if you start MIDI Locator.

Further this leads to drop unnecessary MIDI mode corrections
if you press play. This could happen e.g. if you have not changed
this setting (still GM mode), loaded a GS song, start it in the
middle, but your device is in GS mode when turned on. Then MIDI
Locator sends a GS mode reset, because it supposes your device
to be in GM mode. So choose power on mode is GS mode if
your device is really in GS mode when started.
Copyright
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- Copyright text
The meta event copyright is separated to this edit field
if you have opened a MIDI file. It should not mar the picture
of normal MIDI events in the MIDI editor or workspace display,
so you find this event here. MIDI Locator always saves
the meta event copyright text back to file if you decided
to save the file. At least its contens is empty if you did'nt
enter any text here. Like the ticks per quarter note this
parameter is rather a part of your opened MIDI file than an application
setting, it is updated any time you open a new MIDI file.
Mixer

- Knobs fast turnable
If you mark this checkbox you can faster reach the whole range
of the controllers range between 0 and 127, you can faster turn
the knob.
- Set knobs controller types
when loading MIDI file automatically
If you open a MIDI file MIDI Locator builds a hit statistic,
internal, counting which controllers appear with the highest
occurence (separate for each MIDI channel). If you mark this
checkbox THE TOP 3 of each MIDI channel is selected as controller
types in the MIDI mixer window for the possible 3 controller
knobs after opening a file, automatically.