User Created Programs

GPO remote is a network MIDI over network application which allows using GPO studio on the different machine than the notation/sequencing application. It is composed out of a client and a server application. The user interface is very simple, the only setting required is to enter in the client the name (or IP address) of the remote machine hosting the GPO studio and click connect. On the client machine you need the Maple MIDI ports installed and on the server machine you need the GPO studio installed; besides that no other requirements. It maps the Maple MIDI port 1 channels 1-8 to GPO Studio 1, channels 9-16 to GPO Studio 2 and so on (all 4 MIDI ports to all 8 GPO ports). In the client just input the hostname of the server and then click connect. More information can be found here.

Dan wrote this MFX Plug-In to MFX plugin to improve GPO usability in Sonar. You can do several things with this plug-in. The main thing you can do is remap any kind of controller to any other type of controller. for example, you can transform velocity or breath control #CC2 into mod wheel control events #CC1 (also useful for those with a keyboard without a mod wheel). This plug-in provides real-time recording mapping between velocity, pitch bend or input controllers to any output controllers, the option of using a linear (default) or logarithmic response curve for the output controllers, the option of muting the input events (except for velocity) and keeping only the output controllers during recording and playback.

Version 1.1 adds even more features. It now converts existing standardMIDI files to be used with GPO by mapping velocity to CC#1. After you translate a standard MIDI file into a GPO optimized file, your playback of that midi sequence with GPO will be improved immensely! You can also display input events (including generated ones). There's also VAR1 and VAR2 control.

For those using Calkwalk SONAR3, Charles Green has converted the GPO MIDI Harp Packets into individual two measure MIDI Groove Clips. The clips have been organized into seperate folders by key. The program change controls are at the beginning of each clip so that the user can reduce the size of the clip to a single beat if desired. Once dragged into position on a seperate track pointed to the same channel as the Glissando Harp, one can take the mouse and reduce the length if desired by dragging the end of the clip to the left. This approach saves memory and tracks in the current project while making it easy in SONAR to select the required Harp Packet.

Peter Delano has created two Logic Song files. The first environment allows you to convert incominig Mod Wheel data information into track automatation data. This will avoid the "return to zero" bug in Logic. The second converts Mod Wheel, CC#20, #22 & 24 into automation data. The first one deal with only mod wheel whereas the second one incorporates track-based automation control of GPO's other control parameters (portamento, and the 2 variation knobs) and includes a few cable switchers for working with multiple GPO instances.

This is a SONAR Instrument Definition file (.ins) for use with Sonar 2 (or another Cakewalk product which supports Instruments Definitions). Matteo arranged the instruments definitions for GPO for displaying the note names on the piano rolls when using the percussion instruments. To use this, load an instance of GPO and load, for example, the GPO "Basic orchestral percussion combo" Click on the GPO MIDI track assigned to the "Basic orchestral percussion combo" and open the relative Piano Roll view Right click on the keyboard appearing on the left of the screen. Click"use these notes name instead", Choose "GPO Basic orch combo", Click OK and now you will see the names of the notes you are playing on the left of the screen!

These programs were created got use with the full version of Kontakt. Matteo's additional nki files include some brass "sections" by overlaying the different samples from different ENS program. These patches are useful when you just need a unison section. For example: "french horn 1 3xens" is created from 3 instruments:"french horn 1 ens 1", "french horn 1 ens 2", "french horn 1 ens 3" combined to form a single patch that will occupy only one GPO slot and to play at unison. The same concept apply with trombones and trumpet. In the patches with "OVL" Matteo layered the "overlay" samples to the ensemble sounds. The normal programming of GPO is not modified. The Bass Drum Sus Basic Orch Perc Combo 2 patch modifies the length of the Bass Drum for a longer sustain and also activates "damping" to stop the sound by pressing the sus pedal.

Victor has wriiten a very useful plug-in for users of Sibelius Notation software. It is a rewritten version of the original Sibelius CrescAndDim plugin, which inserts CC1 (ModWheel) MIDI messages in hairpins, thus producing smooth crescrescendo and diminuendo playback in GPO. The user can choose to use either CC7 or CC1 messages. To install it, just copy the file in the plugins folder in Sibelius.

Victor has wriiten another plug-in for Sibelius users to optimize Legato playback in GPO. The program recognizes slurs in a Sibelius score and inserts sustain pedal MIDI messages. Specifically, it inserts a pedal down (CC64,127) message AFTER the first slurred note event (so that the first attack is nor removed) and a pedal up (CC64,0) after the last slurred note event. The delay in the pedal is half the corresponding note duration (so the pedal is pressed when the first slurred note has been sounding for half its whole duration, and depressed when the last slurred note has sounded for half its whole duration). In this way Sibelius slurred passages sound automatically legato in GPO.