Hello Marcus,

Volume and Pan will both need attending to. Not sure if you've dome anything yet in the 1st mvt?

Pan isn't too bad, you just need to look at the standard plan for the setup of an orchestra and assign pan accordingly to match, and the initial setting at the start of the piece will stay put right through. And there's prob a standard setting you can find somewhere and copy, i.e. someone else has already worked it out.

Volume is more of a problem, as this can change often during the piece, both as notated by the composer and as tweaked by the conductor. BUT there's the additional problem that the various devices that might be used for playback may have different RELATIVE volumes as regards different instruments. No way round this, I guess? If your settings arouse any complaint, just put it down to YOUR 'artistic license'??

Geoff

Hi Geoff,

Thanks for your replies. I think I've got all the grace notes in up to the point where I'm at. Also, I'm well aware of the "every instrument at the same volume" issue. However, playing different volumes, emulating the dynamics notated by Beethoven into MIDI, sounds a bit choppy on my PC. Believe me, I've experienced something like that, not on my own MIDIs, but on those I downloaded from MIDI World. The ones from that site use different volumes, and they sound rather messy on my PC. So I don't think I'm gonna change the volume in whole or in part on any of my MIDIs.

I hope all this helps.

Marcus