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KAWAI K4 EDITOR V1.0 (c) 1990 by Jan Saucke
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Contactaddress: Jan Saucke
Hermannstal 112
2000 Hamburg 74
(West) Germany
First a general information:
This program is Shareware. If You decide to use it, just send
me a suitable sum (5$ - 10$, Banknotes).
And of course I would like to receive any feedback in form
of selfmade KAWAI-K4-Sounds, appeared bugs and hints to im-
prove this program.
Now something about the program-environment:
- the directory-strukture on the disk shouldn´t be changed.
- it has to look at least like this:
devs (dir)
serial.device
libs (dir)
midi.library
Midi (dir)
All (dir)
SingleOne (dir)
KawaiEditor
KawaiEditor.info
KawaiEditor.txt
- a possible Startup-Sequence is:
setmap usa
addbuffers df0: 30
cd midi
KawaiEditor
- one All-Dump uses 15123 bytes disk-space, a Single-Dump
only 140 bytes.
- the KAWAI keyboard should transmit and receive on midi-
channel 1.
- the knowledge of special KAWAI terms is useful. I think
it would be the best, if You put the KAWAI manual next
to the computer, so You can look up the funktions of some
of the parameters.
And now to the program itself:
It is devided into different program-levels, of which the
All-Level and the Single-Level are implemented (I´m working
on the Multi-, Effect- and Drum-Level).
The All-Level:
- After running the editor, You are in the All-Level, with
the following funktions available:
RECEIVE ALL - makes the keyboard sending an All-Dump, which
is stored in the AMIGA RAM.
(During the transmission there is "BUSY" dis-
played on the screen, after ending there will
appear "DUMP RECEIVED" or an error massage.)
TRANSMIT ALL - sends an ALL-Dump from AMIGA to KAWAI, which
has been loaded from disk or received from
KAWAI before.
LOAD ALL - loads a dump from disk (the given name in the
filerequester can be changed, also the given
path.)
SAVE ALL - saves a dump on disk (s. LOAD)
DELETE ALL - delete a dump from disk (handle with care)
GOTO SINGLE - go into the Single-Bank-Level
GOTO MULTI - (in preparation)
GOTO DRUM - (in preparation)
GOTO EFFECT - (in preparation)
QUIT - end the editor.
Before You go into the Single-Bank-Level, it´s suggestive to
load or receive an ALL-Dump as a working basis.
The Single-Bank-Level:
Here You can create a single bank with 64 single sounds. For
having a better view You can also print the bank.
RECEIVE BANK - (not yet)
TRANSMIT BANK - (not yet)
PRINT BANK - print the Single-Bank (uses about 1/2 page)
LOAD BANK - (not yet)
SAVE BANK - (not yet)
DELETE BANK - (not yet)
COPY SINGLE - to copy a sound, You have to click on it to
select it. Then click on "COPY SINGLE" and
finally on the position to be copied to.
SWAP SINGLE - to swap two sounds, select one, then click on
"SWAP SINGLE" and after that on another sound.
LOAD SINGLE - loads a sound from disk into the selected
position.
MENU BACK - back to the All-Level
A single bank can be saved/transmitted by going back to the
All-Level and choosing the wanted funktion.
To get from the Single-Bank-Level into the One-Single-Level
You can click once on a selected sound or twice on any other.
The One-Single-Level:
In this Level You can edit the sounds, finally. Besides the
pure parameter-editing, there are the following funktions
available:
RECEIVE - receive a sound from the keyboard (the key-
board will be switched to the current sound
automatically (for insiders: by using pro-
gram-change)
TRANSMIT - the current sound will be transmitted to the
keyboard.
PRINT - the values of the parameters of the current
sound are printed (uses about one page).
CLEAR - the current sound will be cleared (only in
AMIGA memory, if You want to clear it also in
the keyboard, just transmit the cleaed sound.
If You haven´t transmitted it, You can restore
a cleared sound easily by receiving it.)
LOAD - a Single-Sound will be loaded from disk and
transmitted to the keyboard automatically, so
You can test many sounds from disk easily.
SAVE - saves a sound
DELETE - deletes a sound
MENU BACK - back to the Single-Bank-Level, the current
sound will be copied with all its changes into
the AMIGA All-buffer.
UNDO+BACK - back to tha Single-Bank-Level, the current
sound will not be copied into the All-buffer,
all changes will be lost.
- the changing of the parameter-values are transmitted to the
keyboard immediately, so You can listen to the result at once.
- the changing follows allways the same pattern, so I will only
explain the general handling and some special features:
- to change the value of a parameter, just click on it. Then there
will appear an input-mask in the upper screen-area.
- the input bar is used by moving the red line
with the mouse. Pressing the mouse-button left
or right outside the bar will change the value
+/- 1.
If You click on a Zero-box, the value of the
current parameter will be 0.
- a multiple-choice-input is made simply by
clicking on the given words.
- in the lower screen area there is displayed some deeper
information to the transmitted data (like address, parameter,
bitpattern, s. KAWAI manual)
- to end the editing of the current parameter, just click on
another one or on one of the funktions (LOAD,SAVE etc.).
- Special hints:
- to edit another single-sound, You can click on LOAD, RECEIVE
or the single-name. Then you can choose from 64 possibilities
(A 1 - D 16).
- if You click on the single-name, this name will be displayed
in the upper screen area on the right. Just click on the name
in the box and You can type in a new name.
- the fields S1 S2 S3 S4 are to select the source You want to
edit (s. KAWAI manual)
- the fields FILT1 and FILT2 are to select a filter (for insiders:
Filter 2 is not send by parameter-send, yet. You can´t hear
the changes immediately, but only after an extra Single-
transmit/receive. That´s because I don´t know how to send
the data of filter 2 by parameter-send. Maybe it´s KAWAI´s
fault, maybe it´s mine. But if anybody knows, how to do this,
please let me know)
- the waveform is displayed in clear text (s. KAWAI manual),
below the text "DCO..."
That´s for now. And don´t forget: I´m waiting for own sounds, questions
and hints.