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To set up your Instrument, navigate to Studio One/Options/External Devices (Mac OS X: Preferences/External Devices)

and follow these steps:

1. In the Options/External Devices menu, click on the [Add...] button.

2. In the left-hand browser, choose your device from the predefined device list. Set this to New Instrument if you do

not see your device in the list. If set to New Instrument, you may wish to type in a Manufacturer Name and a

Device Name in the appropriate fields. This makes identifying your New Instrument easier.

3. Specify which MIDI channels to use to communicate with this Instrument. MIDI Channel 1 is selected by default. If

you are unsure of the appropriate MIDI channels to use, just leave this at the default setting.

4. Specify the device to which Studio One is sending MIDI and the device from which the software is receiving MIDI.

Select the appropriate MIDI device from the drop-down menu for Send To and (optionally) Receive From. It is

likely your external instrument is not connected directly to your computer. In this case, your external instrument

must be physically connected to another MIDI device (such as a MIDI interface) that does connect to your com-

puter; you need to select the driver for that device.

5. You can choose to send MIDI Clock to this Instrument and/or use MIDI Clock Start by checking the appropriate

boxes. You should send MIDI Clock to your Instrument if it has a built-in sequencer or components (such as

LFOs) that need to sync to Studio One. Enabling MIDI Clock Start sends MIDI Clock Start signals to your Instru-

ment.

6. You can choose to send MIDI Time Code to this Instrument. You can set a Display Offset under Song/Song

Setup/General to correct for time-code variances with external devices.

7. You can vary the speed at which Automated MIDI CC messages are transmitted, using the CC Automation Inter-

val slider. You can vary the value between 10-100ms, with the default value being 10ms.

Your external instrument is now available for use in any Song. To use an external instrument in a Song, be sure that an

Instrument Track is routed to it and that the appropriate Audio Tracks have been added and configured. Refer to

Monitoring an External Instrument for more on this topic.

Note that if your instrument is also a controller (such as a keyboard workstation), you need to set it up twice. First, set it up

as an External Instrument without a Receive From selection, and then set it up as a Keyboard, without a Send To

selection. This allows the keyboard-controller section of the workstation to be used as a source for Instrument Tracks,

while allowing the synthesizer section to be used as an external instrument.

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