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- D20 Help File
-
- Loading in the file D20 will setup Band-in-a-Box for the Roland
- D10/D20/D5 multi-timbral synthesizers and the D110 multi-timbral module.
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- It will setup:
- 1. Drum #'s for the Roland D series synthesizers/modules.
- 2. Patch Map (assigned to factory settings of the D series).
- 3. Startup Patches and Channels in the Midi Settings Window.
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- The D series of synths and synth modules are 8 part multi-timbral
- (8 instruments at once) plus drums.
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- To setup your D10/D110/D20/D5, do the following:
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- You should load in the appropriate D10,D110.DK etc file under the
- MIDI pulldown menu (Load
- Alternate Drum/Midi Set). Select MULTI-TIMBRAL on your synth so your synth
- can receive all of the instruments being sent to it from Band-in-a-Box.
- Parts 1 through 7 will be used while Drums will be received on the RHYTHM
- part of your synth (MIDI channel 10). Part 8 will not be used.
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- At times you may detect some sounds being 'choked' or notes being cut off
- while a style is playing.The reason for this is that the D10/D5/D20/D110 has
- a certain amount of notes that can be played at once and the other is in the
- way their sounds are made up. The sounds are made up of 'partials'.Some
- sounds use 1 or 2 of these partials while others can have up to 4;the latter
- being very complex sounds such as "Warm Bell". When too many of these
- complex sounds are occurring at once,it's too much for your synth to handle
- so it starts to get'choked'. There is also only a certain number of notes
- that can be played at once so either of these two things can be happening.
- The best solutions we can recommend are:
- a) Mute an instrument such as Strings(usually 4 partial sounds),
- b) Select alternative sounds that would be less of a problem.
- or c) Look in your Roland Owners Manual for Partial Reserve.
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- Once you've loaded the D10,D100.DK files, you are ready to start having
- fun with Band-in-a-Box!
- Have Fun!
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