Hello Gedackt8,
To add to others' replies:
I assume your aim is to play MIDI files into Hauptwerk, and that those MIDI files weren't recorded by Hauptwerk. [If the files had been recorded by Hauptwerk, the MIDI channels would already have been set appropriately for Hauptwerk's built-in MIDI player.]
The '
Composing pieces off-line from a MIDI sequencer configured conventionally (Advanced Edition only) (Hauptwerk as a ‘slave’ MIDI device)' section in the main Hauptwerk user guide (pages 241-247 in the current v6.0.1 version) covers setting up Hauptwerk in a way that would be appropriate for playing generic MIDI files from a MIDI sequencer into Hauptwerk.
Since you're using the Lite Edition, you won't have the Hauptwerk VST/AU Link, but you could still use the same core method by using virtual MIDI cable software (e.g. loopMIDI:
http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html ), instead of the Hauptwerk VST/AU Link, to route MIDI from your MIDI sequencer into Hauptwerk.
In essence, you can either:
1. Configure each of Hauptwerk's virtual controls manually to respond to whatever MIDI implementation you like, as described in the
Composing pieces off-line from a MIDI sequencer configured conventionally (Advanced Edition only)' sub-section (pages 241-247). To use this approach, select the MIDI port that connects between your MIDI sequencer and Hauptwerk in a
Console MIDI IN' row on the '
General settings | MIDI ports | MIDI IN ports screen tab.
2. Alternatively, you can just use Hauptwerk's built-in fixed, predefined MIDI recorder/player MIDI implementation, which is covered in brief in the '
Recording and playing back live solo performances: the built-in MIDI recorder/player and its fixed, predefined MIDI implementation' sub-section (page 236), with the full implementation documented via the '
Recording | View Hauptwerk MIDI recorder/player fixed, predefined MIDI implementation (for this organ)' menu function within Hauptwerk. Using this approach way avoids the need to configure any per-control MIDI settings at all in Hauptwerk (but requires you to use that specific MIDI implementation for any events you enter in your MIDI sequencer, or in MIDI files). This approach also has the benefit that Hauptwerk's built-in MIDI player should be able to play MIDI files you export from your sequencer. To use this approach, select the MIDI port that connects between your MIDI sequencer and Hauptwerk in the '
Hauptwerk MIDI recorder/player external MIDI IN') row on the '
General settings | MIDI ports | MIDI IN ports' screen tab.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.