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- Cubase Studio Module Driver for Roland SC-88 Alan Baxter Feb. 27/95
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- Note that the DRIVER NAMES on disk, are pointed to from within the program.
- If you were to change the filename, the file would not be found
- when you attempt in the case of the 2 x versions, to update
- EDITABLE NAMES in the driver file itself.
- DO NOT CHANGE THE FILENAMES.
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- In all driver source, the DEVICE NAME is the same as the FILENAME in
- Global Settings, thus all drivers appear differently to Cubase as required.
- They must each have a unique device name.
- These will be shortened to:
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- A1
- A2
- B1
- B2
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- SC_88.D .DEV for assigning to Port A, has Sounds1 and DUMP ALL
- Only driver that does Sysex DUMP of type ALL
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- SC_88X.D .DEV for assigning to Port A, has Sounds2
- has 256 USER PROG. Sounds with editable names
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- SC_88B.D .DEV for assigning to Port B, has Sounds1
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- SC_88BX.D .DEV for assigning to Port B, has Sounds2
- has 256 USER PROG. Sounds with editable names
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- Dumps are done from the SC_88.DEV driver only.
- They are best done from the Modules Menu entry method into Patch Manager.
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- SC-88 Studio Module support had to be done using 2 (and 4) Drivers
- since the Studio module can only display 16 sub-banks per driver.
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- If you are using only 16 Channels (you can assign B Parts to A channels and
- still get 32 Parts) i.e.- 1 MIDI Port, you may only ant to use 1 driver.
- The SC_88 supports the MAIN Bank and USER DRUMS, all VARIATIONS except
- for 7 of them, which means there are 16 (mostly mundane) sounds you
- can't select via this driver. (Select them manually.) That's what the
- 2nd driver for each port is for. For Port A the SC_88x.dev driver
- supports the 7 banks missing in the main driver, and it also adds the
- 2 USER PROGRAMMBLE SOUND banks, for 256 more sounds. The names are
- blank at present but you can name them in the Patch Window and save and load
- them. To edit them, hold ALT and douob;e-click on the Patch Name slot.
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- There are many reasons why I chose this driver philosophy, based on my
- experience with multitimbral modules and practical realizations about
- what takes place over time after you start a song and keep enhacing it.
- Rather than start a song with a single driver on 1 port, and have to alter
- my sysex dump strategy later, I decided to always do dumps of type ALL.
- The file is only 25k which is reasonable considering it saves the entire
- state of the module. It takes about 15 sec. to do a dump.
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- Note: In all 4 ver. I've seen so far of theStudio Module (Windos Ver.)
- the AUTOSEND on Song Load does not work. It ALAYS does 1 of 2 things.
- It either does nothing quietly, or it crashes Windows to DOS. Beware.
- Do Global Sends from the menu only.
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