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Play/Stop and MIDI Panic
Even though forte is not a sequencer, many virtual instruments and effects depend upon host
transport control to control drum machine patterns and arpeggiators. Most ReWire devices
also require host transport control. For this reason, forte features a Play button.
Each Scene may have the transport button in either the Play state or the Stop state. This
means you can stop and start drum machines on scene change.
When play starts, forte reports a start position of measure 0 beat 0 tick 0. If you stop and
restart the play button, the position will reset to 0. This is consistent with forte not being a
sequencer and assures that pressing Play will cause an instant measure 0 downbeat.
Controller Automation of Transport
You may configure transport to respond to MIDI controller messages on specific ports and
channels. To do so press the Transport Setting button on the header. Using these features,
you may:
Configure buttons or pedals to start and stop the transport
Configure buttons or pedals to force a MIDI panic
If you uncheck Enable Per-Scene Transport, the current transport automation configuration
will be used for all scenes in the rack.
Setlists and Songs
Setlists and Songs are ways to manage scene order. A rack file may contain several Setlists.
Setlists contain Songs, and Songs contain Scenes.
In this way, Scenes may be used more than once in the same Song or different Songs, and
Songs may be reused in Setlists. Only one Setlist may be active at a time.
If no Setlists are defined in a rack file, the scenes will be presented in order in the Scene List
and SceneView (identical in behavior to previous versions of forte). If one or more Setlists
are defined, the active Setlist’s Songs and Scenes will be presented in Song order/Scene
Order. For example, if the Setlist contains 2 songs:
Song “Pictures At An Exhibition” contains Scenes “part 1”, “part2”, and “part3”
Song “Tarkus” contains Scenes “part a” and “part b”
The Scene List and SceneView will show
