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64 New Instruments For Your Soundblaster
"NEW.INS" is a file that can be loaded into Lyra. It will give
your Soundblaster 64 new instrument sounds.
The procedure for making use of these new sounds is as follows:
1. First, make an entry in the "events table". Select the
"Events" command in the MIDI menu. Type "New Ins", press the
down arrow key, type "new.ins", and press the ENTER key. Now you
have told Lyra that when it plays event 0, it should load a
Soundblaster instrument file in called "new.ins". The "New Ins"
is just a label which you can change to whatever you want.
2. Now enter an event marker into music at the point you want the
new instruments loaded. Most likely this will be at the start of
music. Select the "Events" command in the OPTION menu. Move the
cursor until the correct event number is highlighted (0 in our
case; notice that the event label "New Ins" shows up here) and
press the ENTER key. Move the cursor so it is on the staff and
press then ENTER key. You will see an "E0". This means "Event 0".
3. Set up the instrument table. This is done by selecting the
"Instruments" command in the MIDI menu. Type in "Soundblaster"
for the first line (this is actually optional); press the down
arrow and type in the number of the instrument you want (see the
table below), press the down arrow key once more and type in the
instrument name. Continue entering as many instruments as you
want and press the ENTER key when you're done.
4. Select one of the available instruments by entering an
instrument marker into music. This done the same way the event
marker was entered. This time, though, select "Instruments" in
the OPTION menu. Move the bar until the right instrument is
highlighted and press the ENTER key. Move the cursor to where you
want the instrument change to take place, and press the ENTER
key.
The file "NEW.LYR" has all of this done for you. In addition, a test
sequence of notes has been entered so you can audition the first
16 instrument sounds. If you want to listen to the remainder,
change the instrument table numbers.
Of course, make sure that you have correctly set up the
"Configure" command so that "MIDI device" is "SBLASTER-S" and the
correct "Address" is set. You don't need to worry about the
"Interrupt".
You can change to any of the 16 instruments in the instrument
table as often as you wish. Unfortunately, it is not possible at
this point to have more than one instrument sound playing at a
time. If you are interested in this capability, please let me
know and I'll see what can be done!
Any questions or comments may be addressed to:
Lester Hands
MusicWare
Hamlet Route, Box 1261
Seaside, OR 97138
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A List of the 64 Soundblaster Instruments in "NEW.INS"
1 - ACCORDN 24 - ELGUIT1 47 - SYN5
2 - BASSOON1 25 - ELGUIT2 48 - SYN9
3 - BDRUM1 26 - ELGUIT3 49 - SYNBASS1
4 - BELLS 27 - ELPIANO2 50 - SYNBASS2
5 - CELESTA 28 - FLUTE 51 - SYNBASS4
6 - CLAR1 29 - FLUTE1 52 - TINCAN1
7 - CROMORNE 30 - FLUTE2 53 - TOM1
8 - ELPIANO1 31 - HARPSI2 54 - TOM2
9 - HARPSI1 32 - HARPSI3 55 - TROMB1
10 - HIHAT1 33 - JAVAICAN 56 - TROMB2
11 - LASER 34 - JEWSHARP 57 - TRUMPET1
12 - LOGDRUM1 35 - MARIMBA1 58 - TRUMPET2
13 - SYN1 36 - MARIMBA2 59 - TRUMPET3
14 - SYN2 37 - OBOE1 60 - TRUMPET4
15 - SYN3 38 - ORGAN1 61 - TUBA1
16 - SYN4 39 - ORGAN2 62 - VIBRA1
17 - BANJO1 40 - ORGAN3 63 - VIOLIN1
18 - BASS1 41 - PIANO1 64 - VIOLIN2
19 - BASS2 42 - PIANO2 65 - VLNPIZZ1
20 - BRASS1 43 - SAX1 66 - WAVE
21 - CBASSOON 44 - SITAR1 67 - XYLO1
22 - CLAR2 45 - SNAKEFL 68 - XYLO2
23 - ELCLAV1 46 - SNARE1