Using the MIDI Keyboard

Available only in Sound Forge

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With the Sound Forge MIDI Keyboard, you can control internal or external synthesizers and samplers from Sound Forge. For example, you might want to test a sound in a sampler after sending (downloading) it from Sound Forge. You can also use the MIDI keyboard to listen to the different sounds on a synthesizer or in the synthesis section of your sound card.

From the View menu, choose Keyboard to open or close the MIDI Keyboard window. The Keyboard allows you to send MIDI note on and MIDI note off commands to your sound card or sampler.

What do you want to do?

Open the MIDI Keyboard

From the View menu, choose Keyboard to open or close the MIDI Keyboard window.

Resize the MIDI Keyboard

Like any other toolbar or shortcut menu window in Sound Forge, you can resize the MIDI Keyboard window, move it, or dock it to any side of the Sound Forge window.

When the cursor is over any edge of the window, the cursor is displayed as a . Drag to resize. Depending on how you resize the MIDI Keyboard, the keys will be arranged horizontally or vertically.

Configuring the output device and channel

  1. To select a MIDI device, click the MIDI Out button and choose a device from the menu:

  1. Select the Send Program Changes command to select instruments in the device from the keyboard. Program changes are sent only when a key on the MIDI Keyboard is clicked.

  2. Click the up and down arrows to select the MIDI channel you want to use for the selected device. Most MIDI devices are configurable to accept MIDI commands on any channel.

Select instruments

The Instrument drop-down list contains instrument patches listed in the General MIDI standard. Choose an instrument from the drop-down list and click a key on the keyboard to play the patch.

Notes:

Play the keyboard

Click the keys to play them:

Troubleshoot the MIDI Keyboard

If, after selecting the correct device, you still can’t hear anything when you play on the MIDI Keyboard, check the following: