I recently completed a piece for 8 instruments in Finale 2010. I then made a MIDI file (after having turned off Finale's Human Playback) and opened it in Logic 9. In playing back the score from Finale, I had employed a standalone configuration of Vienna Ensemble Pro5/MIR accessed through the IAC ports.
As we all know one of the nice features of the Vienna Instruments Pro sample player is that it allows the user to assign any controller to any parameter. Since I wanted to use Finale's MIDI Tool for volume and expression effects rather than relying on Finale HP's interpretation of what I wrote, I assigned Volume to Controller 35 and Expression to Controller 19. I set MIDI Volume within Finale (in the instruments list window) to 90 which corresponds to a 0 db setting in Logic. When I opened he MIDI file in Logic I found that, despite the fact that I had turned off Human Playpack, the MIDI file contained a great deal of Controller 7 (volume) data that reflected the cresc. and dim. hairpins in the score. I erased all this data from every track and set Controller 7 t0 90. This is important because I opted to instantiate the instruments as VI Pro instances within Logic and used the MIR plugin instead of instantiating Vienna Ensemble Pro 5/MIR as a 16 channel configuration assigned, in Logic, to Instrument One. This means that although I could avoid Controller 7 data from affecting the instruments themselves, any CC 7 data in Logic's Software Instrument tracks would affect Logic's mixer controls. Unfortunately I have encountered an anomaly. In the piano track there appears to be invisible CC 7 (volume) data: no matter how many times I insert a CC 7 = 90 command, an instant later I can observe the mixer jumping down to -2.2db. This is particularly iroinc in that the piano track would never normally have CC 7 data except at the beginning. Mysteriously, if one looks at Logic's event lists or observes Controller 7 data in the Hyperdraw window there is no indication of any command other that CC 7 = 90. Nonetheless, one has to assume that the MIDI file created by Finale has some invisible Controller 7 data in it. How could this happen? How could it be avoided? I'd appreciate anyone's insight regarding this. Thanks in advance.
