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- Subject: Converting mods to midi with med and octamed
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 96 00:34:03 -0500
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- How to create or convert mods, meds, and octameds so samples can be played
- with midi:
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- Fisrt, I expect you to know how to create a med or octamed song, and do not
- teach you how to use all of the program in this doc file.
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- Creating a med or octamed song with both sample and midi parts:
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- First, click on Blocks, and set number of tracks allowed to 4, 8 12 or 16
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- 1. Load the samples you want to use, and then load some more (use short
- ones) that will be replaced with midi channels. (yes, you will need them.)
- Hold down shift key and press left or right curor arrow keys to advance to
- next sample position, and then load next sample, and continue untill all are
- loaded.
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- 2. Click on Midi. In midi window set midi active, keyup, and input and
- if desired, volume.
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- 3. Hold down shift key and use left or right arrow to select sample you wish
- to convert to a midi voice.
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- 4. pick a midi channel 1 - 16 and click on it.
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- 5. Slide the midipres # slider to set the voice that will play on that
- channel.
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- 6. If there are more samples to convert, then repeat steps 3-5
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- 7. Click on Edit and in window, also click on edit.
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- 8. With left or right arrow keys, move to track you want to edit. (Use the
- first 4 tracks for original med, mod, or your sample tracks.)
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- 9 Push down a note (no chords) on your midi keyboard and hold down, and
- press the down arrow key untill note is long enough, and then release note.
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- Repeat untill you have entered the track. You may enter sample tracks or
- midi tracks with the keyboard, and pressing the down arrow to set the length
- the note will play.
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- Repeat with other tracks, and when entire song is entered, save as a med
- module, or octamed module using the save song menus.
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- Converting Mods, Meds, and octameds to midi, or mix of midi and samples.
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- Load the song using correct load song menu.
- Play the song then stop it and
- examine the tracks. Those with a lot of different numbers in the 4 digit
- field of a track will be hard or impossible to convert, so leave them alone
- for now. Also look for a 4 digit field that has 0FFF. This most likely
- will only be present, if the song was entered with a midi keyboard, or was
- prepared to play midi. If this field is not present, you will have to enter
- it at all points where you want a note to stop playing.
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- If there are some tracks that do not have much variety in this 4 digit field,
- then look at the first digit on the left of the 4 digit field. This digit
- indicates the sample used at that point in the track.
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- Use the shift key with the left or right arrow key, and find this sample.
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- then click on midi, if not in the midi menu, and then select a midi channel
- and set the midipres# to the midi voice desired. Continue through the track
- and find all samples used, and only convert those you want changed.
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- If the tracks play back in the wrong octave, you have the option of using
- med or octameds transpose option, but better still, is to use your keyboards
- transpose option.
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- Save the song as a med or octamed module when done.
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- Recording directly to a track.
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- I found if I pull of the midi cable that goes to the INPUT of the keyboard,
- and only have the OUTPUT cable connected, I can record directly to a track.
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- This is done by setting the options, and then start either a blank song, or
- block playing, and record into it.
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- It is better to create a blank song. Just go to the block menu when you
- first boot up octamed or med, and click on add block, the number of blocks
- you want. (about 30 )
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- Then go to the play menu, and you see a 00 at the left of the screen at the
- top. click on insert, about 30 times, then use the arrow keys to move to
- each block, and increment them with the plus or minus keys untill
- you have a sequence numbered 1-30.
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- Then load in all your samples, and set them to what midi channels desired,
- if any, and what midi voice, and set the midi active, input, volume, and
- keyup options.
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- Then save it as a med module, or octamed module, and give it the name,
- name.band Now you can create different files like this for different
- bands, and when you want to record, you just load in the band.
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- Med, and octamed do not record perfectly, I am not sure here, maybe some
- experimenting with recording at faster or slower tempos will solve that, but
- even if you just enter notes and use the down arrow to set the duration, it
- is worth while to create bands because of all the setup time saved.
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