Composing General Midi music in Live.

[rutgermuller]

I want the end result to be a decent .mid
What do I need? I have a Mac, so I guess a AU GM Synth?
Can I use the default GM Synth of OS X? How do I assign it to a track? How do I export that correctly?

[Tone Deft]

do you have a computer?

[rutgermuller]

do you have a computer?

sorry, I wasn't thinking, edited

[broc]

The GM Synth of OS X is available in Live as AU plugin, called "DLSMusicDevice".
Just assign it to MIDI tracks like any other AU instrument. Send program change to select a patch.

Note however that Live doesn't export multi-track MIDI files but only single tracks (clips).

[rutgermuller]

Thanks.

How do I send a program change? I know little about GM. And how can I make one combined midi, with wat program? Is there better software than live for GM composing?

[broc]

For info about GM read this

http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/links/music/gm.htm

Personally I'm using Logic for MIDI composing.
It's much more powerful than Live in this area (but not easy to use).

[rozling]

Might find this post (and comments) helpful:

http://www.wiretotheear.com/2009/02/16/ ... n-for-mac/

[rutgermuller]

Thank you!

[matt kattle]

Note however that Live doesn't export multi-track MIDI files but only single tracks (clips).

Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyy?
so simple with reaper for example.. little waste of time to tranfer everything for mixing down and export.