Retune Compositions with FTS Check List

Here are some things to check if your compositions don't play quite as expected, or you hear no sound at all.

Check that you can play notes in FTS
Show the PC keyboard player - or click the play scale button and make sure that you hear the notes tuned as intended.

Check that you have any virtual midi cables set up properly
To see what is happening in FTS you can go to which is in the In drop menu which will show you each note as it is received from Midi In. You can also go to - which you can find in the Out menu which will show each note which FTS plays via Midi Out.

IMake sure that the In device is open in FTS
- look at the In menu. If it doesn't show as Opened, then select OPEN IN DEVICE NOW.

Check that you don't have all sounds muted
If you don't hear anything, then go to Bs | Play Control - Volume in FTS - and check you have a suitable device selected and not muted,- there may be more devices available from Options | Properties in that window.

If the composition has many instruments, check you have Parts by In Channel selected
This is in window - make sure you have Select part by input chann. selected in the drop list.

This is needed so that FTS will distinguish between the different input channels. For instance if your score has a flute in channel 1 and a harpsichord in channel 2, with this selected, FTS will play all the notes received from channel 1 on part 1 which it will set to play a flute. It will play all notes from channel 2 similarly on part 2, and will set part 2 to play the flute.

In the score, if you have any controllers, e.g. suppose you sustain a bar on the harpsichord, FTS will sustain all the notes played on part 2. For as long as the sustain pedal is held down, it will make sure that none of the flute notes are played on the same channels.

In the same way, FTS will keep the output channels distinct when necessary - but will double up output channels whenever possible in order to keep as many output channels as possible free to maximise the pitch polyphony.

None of this works, I want to be able to specify which channels are played by which parts myself
Usually FTS can do everything automatically. If possible leave it like that as it will usually give the best results.

However sometimes you may need to use FTS with an out device with special requirements. E.g. maybe it doesn't respond to instrument changes or you wish to change the instrument at the device instead of via midi.

In that situation you may want to specify which parts play on which midi channels which you can do in