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- SBStudio II
- (C) 1991-94 Henning Hellström
- All rights reserved
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- Program documentation
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- The setup menu
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- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
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- »Setup»
- ─────
-
- Press <ALT+U> or click on the 'SETUP' button on the
- main screen to enter setup.
-
-
- The setup window looks like this:
-
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ┌───────┐ │
- │ │Player │ │
- │ └───────┘ │
- │ ┌───────┐ │
- │ │System │ │
- │ └───────┘ │
- │ ┌───────┐ │
- │ │ Edit │ Current setup page │
- │ └───────┘ │
- │ ┌───────┐ │
- │ │DeskTop│ │
- │ └───────┘ │
- │ ┌───────┐ │
- │ │ Midi │ │
- │ └───────┘ │
- │ ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ │
- │ │ Ok │ │Cancel │ │ Save │ │ Load │ │
- │ └───────┘ └───────┘ └───────┘ └───────┘ │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- Select the setup page you want by clicking on the
- corresponding button, or walk through the pages with
- the left/right arrow keys on your keyboard.
-
- To exit setup, click on the 'Ok' button or press <ESC>.
-
- By clicking on the 'Cancel' button, any changes made
- to setup will be discarded.
-
- The 'Save' and 'Load' buttons applies to ALL setup
- settings.
-
-
-
- »'Player' setup»
- ──────────────
-
- The 'player' setup page looks something like this:
-
- ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ Device GRAVIS ULTRASOUND │
- │ ┌──┐ ┌─┐┌─┐ ┌──────┐ │
- │ Play KHZ │22│ │<││>│ │STEREO│ │
- │ └──┘ └─┘└─┘ └──────┘ │
- │ Bit Gain ( ) 16 Bit ( ) │
- │ │
- │ Gus Fading ( ) Poly Tester ( ) │
- │ │
- │ BPM Tempo ( ) Multi=Poly ( ) │
- │ │
- │ Song Loop ( ) Tester Fade ( ) │
- │ │
- └──────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- DEVICE - This is where the selected audio device
- is shown.
-
-
- PLAY KHZ - Here, the mixing frequency and mode is
- selected.
-
- The frequency is controlled by the
- up/down gadgets, legal frequency ranges
- are:
-
- SoundBlaster 2.0..... 8-22 kHz mono
- SoundBlaster PRO .... 8-44 kHz mono
- 8-22 kHz stereo
- SoundBlaster 16 ..... 8-44 kHz mono
- 8-44 kHz stereo
-
- Playback mode is toggled by clicking on
- the stereo/mono text box.
-
- These settings has nothing to do with
- the Gravis UltraSound.
-
-
- BIT GAIN - Bit gain is a method of improving
- manually mixed sound.
- By enabling bit gain, the sound will
- get twice as loud and half as noisy.
-
- Bit gain only works in 8 bit mixing
- mode.
-
- Bit gain has no effect on the Gravis
- UltraSound.
-
-
- 16 BIT - If you have a SoundBlaster 16 or
- compatible card, you may enable this
- setting. Noise will be reduced to a
- minimum.
-
- This setting has nothing to do with the
- Gravis UltraSound, the GUS is always
- 16 bit.
-
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- GUS FADING - When this setting is enabled, all
- volume settings are faded to using the
- volume ramping hardware in the Gravis
- UltraSound, resulting in less or no
- 'clicks' caused by rapid volume
- changes.
-
- There is no known reason why this
- should be disabled, but a toggle is
- included just in case.
-
- This setting is for GUS only.
-
-
- POLY TESTER - With this setting enabled, you get 6
- note polyphony when playing sounds
- manually. These voices are independent
- of the playback voices.
- Used together with the 'TESTER FADE'
- setting, it's great for 'playing along'
- with a song.
-
- This setting is for GUS only.
-
-
- BPM TEMPO - This setting controls the ability to
- respond to BPM tempo settings. With
- this setting disabled, the only way
- to control the tempo of the song
- internally is through the SPEED
- setting.
-
- There is no known reason why this
- should be disabled, but a toggle is
- included just in case.
-
-
- MULTI=POLY - With this setting enabled, the poly
- tester mode is toggled with the 'MULTI'
- toggle on page one, instead of with the
- 'POLY TESTER' toggle in setup.
-
- This setting is for GUS only.
-
-
- SONG LOOP - With this setting enabled, the song
- will restart from the beginning when
- finished.
-
-
- TESTER FADE - With this setting enabled, sounds
- played manually will stop on note off.
-
-
-
- »'System' setup»
- ──────────────
-
- The 'system' setup page looks something like this:
-
- ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ┌───────────────────┐ │
- │ Songs │C:\AUDIO\SONGS\ │ │
- │ ├───────────────────┤ │
- │ Sounds │C:\AUDIO\SAMPLES\ │ │
- │ └─┬───┬─┬─┬┬─┬──────┘ │
- │ Channels │ 08│ │<││>│ │
- │ ├───┤ ├─┤├─┤ ┌────┐ │
- │ Saver Wait │180│ │<││>│ │ON │ │
- │ └───┘ └─┘└─┘ └────┘ │
- │ Careful ( ) Error Beep ( ) │
- │ │
- │ XMS Swap ( ) Fast Timer ( ) │
- │ │
- └──────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- SONGS - This is your SONG base path.
- Click on it to change it.
-
- The install program will initialize it
- for you, but you may want to change it.
-
-
- SOUNDS - This is your SOUND or SAMPLE base path.
- Click on it to change it.
-
- The install program will initialize it
- for you, but you may want to change it.
-
-
- CHANNELS - This is where you set the number of
- sound channels to be used. Legal range
- is 4-16 channels.
-
- This setting is non-destructive, it
- will not destroy any sheet data.
-
- This setting dictates the number of
- channels that can be edited, played and
- saved.
-
-
- SAVER WAIT - The number in the window represents the
- number of seconds the screenblanker
- will wait before starting. Legal range
- is 10-900 seconds.
-
- The screenblanker may be turned on/off
- by clicking on the on/off textbox.
-
-
- CAREFUL - With this setting enabled, some
- operations will ask your permission
- before executing.
-
-
- ERROR BEEP - With this setting enabled, the PC
- speaker beeps on errors.
-
-
- XMS SWAP - When shelling to DOS, all samples must
- be moved from conventional memory to
- a buffer either on disk, or in
- extended memory. If this setting is
- on, extended memory will be used. If
- you don't have enough extended memory
- or if this setting is off, the samples
- will be moved to disk.
-
-
- FAST TIMER - When this setting is enabled, all
- cosmetic timer-dependent stuff like the
- volume meters and the blinking cursor
- will work a bit faster. This setting
- has nothing to do with the program
- clocks or the system timer.
-
-
-
- »'Edit' setup»
- ────────────
-
- The 'edit' setup page looks something like this:
-
- ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ┌───┐ ┌─┐┌─┐ ┌────┐ │
- │ Quantize │001│ │<││>│ │ON │ │
- │ ├───┴─┴─┤└┬┴┐├─┬┬─┤ │
- │ Multi Row │01 > 02│ │<││>││o│ │
- │ ┌─────┴┬─┬────┴─┴─┴┴─┴┴─┤ │
- │ Key │ C-1 │=│ C-3 / 01 │ │
- │ └┬─┬┬─┬┘ └┬─┬┬─┬──┬─┬┬─┬┘ │
- │ │<││>│ │<││>│ │<││>│ │
- │ └─┘└─┘ └─┘└─┘ └─┘└─┘ │
- │ Rec Song ( ) Jump Right ( ) │
- │ │
- │ Rec Sync ( ) ( ) │
- │ │
- └──────────────────────────────────┘
-
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- QUANTIZE - This number represents the number of
- sheet rows to jump when editing the
- sheet. When recording, entered data
- will be inserted at the nearest row
- that is dividable by <quantize>.
-
- Quantizing may be toggled on/off by
- clicking on the on/off textbox.
-
-
- MULTI ROW - This setting enables you to control
- the channel jump path when 'MULTI'
- mode (button on page 1) is enabled.
- '01 > 02' means 'when at channel one,
- jump to channel two after data is
- entered'.
- Use the up/down gadgets to change what
- channel to jump TO. Use the left/right
- mouse buttons on the small dotted
- button to wander up/down the path.
-
-
- KEY - This setting lets you redefine the
- entire piano key map.
- 'C-1 = C-3 / 01' means that the REAL
- C-1 is mapped to C-3 and will always
- play sound 01.
- Use the up/down gadgets under the
- settings to change them.
-
- 'SPLIT' mode (button on page 1) has to
- be turned on to enable the map.
-
- Read about the 'KEY PROG' function in
- the 'Page 1' documentation part for an
- even easier method of programming the
- key map.
-
-
- REC SONG - This setting makes sheet recording
- go through the whole song instead of
- just the current sheet.
-
-
- JUMP RIGHT - This setting makes the edit cursor
- jump RIGHT instead of DOWN during
- sheet editing.
-
-
- REC SYNC - With this setting enabled, sheet
- recording will wait for the first
- entered note before starting.
-
-
-
- »'DeskTop' setup»
- ───────────────
-
- The 'desktop' setup page looks something like this:
-
- ┌────────────────┬───────────────┬─┐
- │ Window Shade │ █ │ │
- │ └───────────────┘ │
- │ Line Graph ( ) Blinking ( ) │
- │ │
- │ Beat Lines ( ) File Coding ( ) │
- │ ┌───────────────────┐ ┌───┐┌───┐ │
- ┌──── ██ ▓▓ ░░ ██ ▒▒ ██ │┌─│││││ o ─── Volume meter /
- │ │ └───────────────────┘│└───┘└───┘ │ sample graph
- │ │ ┌──────────────────┐│┌────────┐ │ selector.
- │ │ R│ █ │││░░▒▒▓▓██│ │
- │ │ G│ █ │││░░▒▒▓▓██│ │
- │ │ B│ █ │││░░▒▒▓▓██│ │
- │ │ └──────│───────────┘│└───│────┘ │
- │ └─────────│────────────│────│──────┘
- │ │ │ │
- │ │ │ └─ Volume meter and
- │ │ │ sample graph color
- │ │ │ range.
- │ │ │
- │ │ └─ Volume meter blinds.
- │ │
- │ └─ Color controllers.
- │
- └─ 1st color - text color.
- 2nd color - sheet color.
- 3rd color - used for highlighted text, cursors,
- errors and more.
- 4th color - sheet and sample marking color.
- 5th color - 2nd sample marking color.
- 6th color - loop lines and zoom bar in sample area.
-
-
- To select a color for editing, just click on it.
-
- To copy a color, go to it and press 'C'. The color
- will be copied to the next color you click on.
-
- To make a gradient in the color range, click on a
- color with the RIGHT mouse button.
-
-
-
- WINDOW SHADE - This slider controls the brightness
- of the window and mouse cursor
- shadows.
-
-
- LINE GRAPH - There are two methods of graphing
- samples available in SBStudio. Use
- this setting to change between them.
-
-
- BLINKING - This setting makes the different edit
- cursors blink.
-
-
- BEAT LINES - With this setting enabled, every 4th
- sheet row will be shown in a darker
- color.
-
-
- FILE CODING - When this setting is on, all files
- 'known' to SBStudio will be shown in
- a different color in the file menu.
-
-
-
- »'Midi' setup»
- ────────────
-
- The 'midi' setup page looks something like this:
-
- ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ Device GRAVIS ULTRASOUND │
- │ ┌───┐ ┌─┐┌─┐ ┌────┐ │
- │ Transpose │+36│ │<││>│ │ON │ │
- │ ├───┤ ├─┤├─┤ ├────┤ │
- │ Midi IN Ch │ 01│ │<││>│ │ON │ │
- │ └───┘ └─┘└─┘ └────┘ │
- │ Velocity ( ) Omni ( ) │
- │ │
- │ Use Veloc ( ) Midi OUT ( ) │
- │ │
- │ Midi Clock ( ) Midi THRU ( ) │
- │ │
- └──────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- DEVICE - This is where the selected MIDI device
- is shown.
-
-
- TRANSPOSE - This number is subtracted from
- incoming notes and added to outgoing
- notes. Play around with it to find the
- best value for your MIDI system.
-
- Transposing may be turned off by
- clicking on the on/off textbox.
-
-
- MIDI IN CH - Here, you select the MIDI channel
- SBStudio will receive data from.
-
- MIDI IN may be turned off by clicking
- on the on/off textbox.
-
-
- VELOCITY - With this setting enabled, received
- velocity data is used.
-
-
- OMNI - With this setting enabled, MIDI data
- will be used regardless of channel.
-
-
- USE VELOC - With this setting enabled, received
- velocity data will be inserted in the
- sheet as volume settings.
-
-
- MIDI OUT - This setting control SBStudio's
- ability to transmit MIDI data from
- the sheet. Read the part 'Programming
- the sheet' for details on MIDI OUT.
-
-
- MIDI CLOCK - This setting enables usage of the
- clock tick sent out by most sequencers
- and drum machines. When this setting
- is enabled, playback start, stop and
- tempo is controlled from the MIDI
- device.
-
- This setting only works with GUS.
-
-
- MIDI THRU - With this setting enabled, any
- received MIDI data will be sent out
- again, regardless of channel.
-
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