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Bome MIDI Translator: User's Manual 5 MIDI Translator Concepts

5 MIDI Translator Concepts

This chapter outlines the main concepts of MIDI Translator's concept. Refer

to the following chapters for in-depth descriptions of the respective topics.

5.1 Project Level

In MIDI Translator, a Project is equivalent to a .bmtp file that you can load

and save from within MIDI Translator. A Project includes the following

items:

Author Info

name, web site, and other info of the author of this project

Project Default MIDI Input ports

Set the MIDI devices (aliases) that this project receives from. If you

don't define specific MIDI Input ports at the Preset or Translator level,

the incoming MIDI actions will receive from these MIDI ports.

Project Default MIDI Output ports

Set the MIDI devices (aliases) that this project sends to. If you don't

define specific MIDI Output ports at the Preset or Translator level, the

outgoing MIDI actions will send to all the ports selected here.

MIDI Router

Define MIDI Thru connections for the entire project.

Global AppleScript

Here you can define AppleScript handlers which you can call from

outgoing AppleScript actions. See the AppleScript chapter for more

details.

Presets

The Project owns all presets which you can see in the Preset List.

5.2 Preset Level

A Project can have one or more Presets, they are always visible in the

Preset List at left.

A Preset is a collection of Translators. You can deactivate a Preset by

unchecking the “active” check box in the Preset List or with the equivalent

checkbox in the Preset general properties. All Translator entries in an

inactive Preset are ignored during event processing. It is possible to

activate/deactivate Presets by way of outgoing actions in a Translator.

A Preset contains the following: