M-LIVE Merish Plus Reference Manual - Midi Settings

Midi settings

General settings

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Option Menu

Merish MIDI settings.

Melody track   track/MIDI channel considered by Merish as the song track containing the 

melody line.

This is the track that is muted by the Melody mute function.

In the Plus and Gold versions of Merish, it is also the track that is used 

by the 

“Melody Tracker Mode” (pag. 34) of the Harmonizer.

The songs produced by M-Live use track 4 as the Melody Track. 

Chord mode  display mode for the chords:  

Italian (Do, Re, Mi, ...), International (C, D, E, ...), Disabled.

Midi-In 

operating mode of the Merish MIDI IN port:

Disabled; 

Seq mode (sequencer mode): GM standard operation – 16 channels

Keyb mode (keyboard mode): special operation – the events received on 

any MIDI channel are converted and sent only to the MIDI 1 channel. 

Instead of single sounds, the events of Program Change 1..99 recall 

Performances, i.e. combinations of sounds (split or layer, e.g. Piano&Strings) 

or  single  sounds  selected  for  the  most  frequent  uses  •  see  tables 

“Performances” (pag. 47)

.

Click Count-In  plays a count-in bar (only a reference click) before the start of each song 

(useful, for example, for line-ups with a drummer).

The click track is only heard on the CLICK OUT output and only with MIDI files.

Yes (enabled): the songs are preceded by a count-in bar;

No (disabled): the songs start immediately.

General Merish settings.

Pedal mode   sets the function enabled/disabled by the pedal connected to Merish:

Disabled (pedal disabled); Play/pause, Smooth (lowers the volume of the 

music and eliminates any effects from the microphone for better intelligibility 

of announcements).

The Plus and Gold versions of Merish also include the Harmonizer 

option, allowing to enable/disable the processor’s current mode.

Short-time 

time after which the songs are faded out when the Short function is enabled. 

The minimum duration is a minute. Songs with markers are however played 

until the end of the current marker

(short-time + completion of current marker). 

Option also accessible by keeping the Short button pressed down for a couple of seconds.

Panel also 

accessible by 

keeping the 

Melody Mute 

button pressed 

down for a couple 

of seconds.