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June 11, 1989 PLATINUM SERIES (tm) D-110 EDITOR Version 2.1 Copyright (c) LOGICAL PRODUCTIONS 1989 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is a demonstration version of the D-110 Editor. It has been provided so that you can get the look and feel of the program. All MIDI communication with the synthesizer has been disabled. Please note: One of the most powerful features of the Editor is real-time auditioning of Tones which is impossible without the MIDI link. It is difficult to fully appreciate the program until you get your hands on the real thing! Feel free to copy and distribute this demo version. We ask that you include all files on the disk and that you make no modifications to the program itself. Logical Productions retains title and ownership of the software recorded on the original disk and all subsequent copies of the software, regardless of the form or media in or on which the original and other copies may exist. To order the Platinum Series D-110 Editor, send a check or money order for $99.95 to: Logical Productions 616 South Sunset Canyon Drive Burbank, California 91501 California residents please add appropriate sales tax. If you have any questions, you can reach us at 818-848-5973. We welcome your comments and ideas about our products and the world of music and computers in general. Please call or write! Excerpts from the user manual follow. Obviously, some statements do not apply to this demonstration version. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * INTRODUCTION Welcome to the Platinum Series from Logical Productions! We have made every effort to deliver software of the highest possible quality. We encourage you to contact us with your comments and suggestions for improvements to ensure that later versions will continue to meet your musical needs. The D-110 Editor was designed by musicians for the purpose of exploiting the awesome power of the Roland D-110 Multi Timbral Sound Module. The Editor provides quick and easy access to internal settings of the D-110 which otherwise must be set with a complicated series of button-pushes on the front panel of the instrument. The architecture of the Roland D-110 is presented in a simple and logical manner, making it easy understand and edit. The driving philosophy is that you, in the process of composing, sequencing, mixing or performing, will want to get into the Editor, make the desired changes, and get out with a minimum of effort. The Editor's ability to run in the background is key to this philosophy. Unlike other products on the market, the Platinum Series Editor is oriented toward the most powerful feature of the D-110, the Patch. Other parameters are accessed via pull-down menus or pop-up windows on the Patch screen. We think you will find, after some experimentation, that this method fits very well in the context of your musical pursuits. After you read this manual once, you probably will not need it again. Wherever you are in the Editor, it prompts you with the valid keystrokes across the bottom of the screen. You simply can't get lost! Now, let's get on with it. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS - IBM PC, XT, AT or PS/2 Models 25 and 30 (or 100% compatible) - at least 256K of RAM (640K recommended if used memory-resident) - IBM CGA or MDA compatible monitor - Roland MPU-401 (or compatible) - Roland D-110 Multi Timbral Sound Module IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. MAKING A BACKUP The first thing you should do is make a backup of the original program disk. To do this, insert your DOS disk in drive A and key the following: >DISKCOPY A: B: <enter> DISKCOPY will respond with a request to insert the source disk in drive A and the target disk in drive B. Insert the original program disk in drive A and a blank diskette in drive B. Press <enter>. When DISKCOPY finishes, store the original program disk in a safe place and work with your backup disk. If you have a hard drive, just insert the original program disk in drive A, issue a CHDIR command to change to the directory where you want the Editor to reside, and key the following: >COPY A:*.* C: <enter> (where C: is the hard drive) ROLAND D-110 ARCHITECTURE The Roland D-110 is a very powerful device, but this power comes with the price of increased complexity. To gain the most benefit from your D-110 and the Platinum Series Editor, and to avoid surprises, it is important that you have a working understanding of the internal structure of the D-110 and how the device was designed to respond to MIDI commands. (If you have made it through the Roland D-110 manual and completely understand it, congratulations! This section should confirm what you already know!) Here are some important definitions: TONE - A Tone is the musical unit which determines the sound produced by the synthesizer, that is, whether the note you play sounds like a piano or a snare drum. The D-110 has two banks of preset Tones (Tone Groups a and b) and one bank of preset rhythm Tones (Tone Group r) on-board. It also has another Tone bank (Tone Group i) which is fully programmable. Group i is the bank that gets transferred to or from disk or memory card. Each bank contains 64 Tones and each Tone has a name. TIMBRE - A Timbre consists of performance information associated with a Tone. Timbre parameters are Key Shift, Fine Tune, Bender Range, Assign Mode, and Output Assign. A Timbre also refers to a Tone (Tone Group and Tone Number), but it does not contain the Tone information. A Timbre is the unit selected when the D-110 receives a MIDI program change on a channel other than the control channel. (If a program change is received on the control channel, a Patch is selected.) The D-110 has two programmable Timbre banks (A and B) with 64 Timbres in each bank. Timbres do not have names, only numbers. PART - A Part can be thought of as an individual instrument. Each Part responds independently to the MIDI data on its assigned channel. The D-110 has eight synthesizer Parts (Parts 1 thru 8) and one rhythm Part (Part R), which acts as a drum machine. Part parameters are Output Level, Pan, Key Range Lower, Key Range Upper, MIDI Channel, and Partial Reserve. The rhythm Part has only Output Level, MIDI Channel, and Partial Reserve. Each synthesizer Part has its own set of Timbre parameters which, in turn, refer to a Tone. PATCH - Here's where it all comes together. A Patch is comprised of all eight synthesizer Parts, the rhythm Part, and the reverb settings (Reverb Type, Reverb Time, and Reverb Level). The D-110 holds one programmable bank of 64 named Patches. A new Patch is selected when the D-110 receives a program change on the control channel. (You must set the control channel from the D-110 front panel.) RHYTHM SETUP - The Rhythm Setup defines how the rhythm Part will respond to MIDI data on its assigned channel. Each key (MIDI notes #24 thru #108) may be programmed with a Tone (from Tone Group r or i), an Output Level, a Pan, and an Output Assign. Remember that Part R controls the overall Output Level, the MIDI Channel, and the Partial Reserve for the rhythm Part. Now, let us take a look a how the internal memory of the Roland D-110 is organized: The Tone presets (Tone banks a, b and r) are stored in Read Only Memory (ROM) and, of course, cannot be edited. Random Access Memory (RAM) is divided into what Roland calls temporary areas and memories. When you select a patch, it is copied from the patch memory to a temporary area where editing takes place. After you edit a patch, you must store it in the patch memory before selecting another patch, or you will lose the changes that you just made. There are eight Timbre temporary areas, one for each Part, and they share the same space as the Timbre information for the current Patch. By selecting a Timbre for a particular Part, you overwrite the Timbre parameters in the temporary area for that Part in the current Patch. This is a very important thing to know and will save you much frustration! When you send a MIDI program change command on a channel that is assigned to a Part, the current Patch (the one in the temporary area) has changed from when you selected it! (When we first got our D-110, we thought a bug in the D-110 firmware was causing random changes. Everything fell into place when we finally figured out what was happening with the program change commands.) There are also eight Tone temporary areas, one for each part. When you select a Patch, the Tone temporary areas are loaded with the Tone parameters for the Tones pointed to by the Timbres associated with the Patch. (Whew!) The Tone for each Part may be edited. Be sure to store an edited Tone in the Tone memory if you want to save it. Don't be too discouraged if all this sound confusing now. The Platinum Series Editor should make it all very simple. Read on! INVOKING THE D-110 EDITOR The Editor comes equipped with many start-up options to allow customization to your particular set-up. For starters, try this: >D110EDIT -H <enter> The Editor will respond with a list of available options: Usage: D110EDIT [-B] [-D] [-H] [-On] [-Pn] [-R] [Unn] -B = Set colors to black and white -H = Help -On = Set middle C (note 60) octave to n (0 thru 9) Default = 4 -Pn = Use video page n (0 = no paging) Default = highest page -R = Make resident -Unn = Set exclusive unit to nn (17 thru 32) Default = 17 -Wn = Set MIDI output wait factor to n (0 thru 9) Default = 4 You may not need to use any of these options but we'll cover them now, anyway. -B = Set colors to black and white This option is useful if you have a CGA, EGA or VGA adapter and a two-color monitor (or if you just don't like color). This option is automatically selected if you have a monochrome adapter. -H = Help This option tells the Editor to display a list of available options (as above). -On = Set middle C (note 60) octave to n (0 thru 9) Default = 4 You may want to tell the Editor to display note values which are different from the Roland standard. Roland assumes that middle C (note 60) is octave 4. Texture and Cakewalk display middle C as octave 5. If you are using the Editor in the background with a sequencer, set the octave to correspond with the your sequencer. Texture is a registered trademark of Magnetic Music. Cakewalk is a registered trademark of Twelve Tone Systems. -Pn = Use video page n (0 = no paging) Default = highest page This option is included if the Editor paging function conflicts with your other software. This would apply only if you use the Editor in the background (resident). Is it very unlikely that you will need this option. -R = Make resident This option tells the Editor to run in the background. The Editor is then instantly available with a single keystroke. The standard "hot key" is Alt-X. (Please contact Logical Productions if you need a different hot key.) If you are running the Editor in conjunction with other memory resident programs, you may need to experiment to determine the best order to load them. -Unn = Set exclusive unit to nn (17 thru 32) Default = 17 By default, the Editor assumes that your D-110 is set to Exclusive Unit 17. Use this option if you want the Editor to assume a different Exclusive Unit at start-up. -Wn = Set MIDI output wait factor to n (0 thru 9) Default = 4 This is a means to adjust the speed at which your computer sends MIDI information to the D-110. The standard IBM PC has a clock rate of 4.77 MHz but many clones run faster. It is possible to send MIDI data faster than the D-110 can handle it. The default setting of 4 works well for 8 MHz machines. A higher setting slows down MIDI transmission. (To determine the optimum setting for your computer, load a Tone bank from disk and watch the MIDI MESSAGE light on your D-110. You should see 64 discreet closely spaces pulses. If you have customized the current Tone bank, be sure to save it first!) THE D-110 EDITOR The Platinum Series D-110 Editor uses MIDI system exclusive commands to communicate with the Roland D-110. A two-way connection (from the MPU-401 MIDI OUT to the D-110 MIDI IN, from the D-110 MIDI OUT to the MPU-401 MIDI IN) is required only at certain times: when the Editor first wakes up, when you get a Patch from the D-110's Patch memory, when you get a Timbre from the D-110's Timbre memory, when you edit a Tone, when you change the Exclusive Unit, and when you save any bank to disk. At all other times, a one-way MIDI connection (from the MPU-401 MIDI OUT to the D-110 MIDI IN), will suffice. This makes it real handy to audition your edits as they happen. While the Editor is active, you can patch your MIDI keyboard to the MPU-401 MIDI IN and play while you are making changes with the Editor. (The MPU-401 MIDI THRU must be enabled for this to work. This is the power-on default.) To invoke the Editor, key the following at the DOS prompt: >D110EDIT <enter> You may want to use one or more of the execution options explained in the previous section. The first thing the Editor will do is try to retrieve the contents of the D-110's RAM. (This is one of those time when a two-way MIDI connection is required.) The Exclusive Unit setting of the D-110 must match that of the Editor. Use the -U option to set the Editor to other than the default value of 17. Once the Editor is active, you can set the Exclusive Unit to any of 16 values and, therefore, control up to 16 D-110s! If you are running in the background (-R option), the Editor will not try to get the D-110's data until the first time it is invoked with the hot key. The Editor's main screen displays the values of all the parameters of the current Patch (Patch Name, Part parameters, Timbre parameters and Reverb parameters) as well as the Master Tune and Exclusive Unit. Notice the box at the lower right. The MIDI channels and Tone names for all eight synthesizer Parts are visible at a glance. Also notice the help text at the bottom of the screen. The text will change depending on where you are in the Editor. Editing the Patch To edit a Part or Timbre parameter associated with the current Patch, simply use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired parameter and use the Plus and Minus keys to change it's value. The changed value is immediately sent to the D-110. You may also enter the new value directly. If you press a numeric key, 0 thru 9, the Editor goes into direct input mode. Press enter to complete the direct input. (Direct input is available for all parameters, but it is more intuitive for some than for others. Experiment!) Possibly the nicest feature of the Platinum Series Editor is the ability to choose a Tone while viewing an entire Tone bank. To do this, place the cursor on a Part for which you want to change Tones and press Enter. (The vertical position of the cursor doesn't matter.) You will then see an entire tone bank. By moving the cursor around the screen, you can audition all Tones in the bank. Use PgUp and PgDn to change banks. Press Enter to select a Tone or Esc to keep the one that you had before. Pull-Down Menus To access the pull-down menus, press the Ins key. Use the Up and Down arrow keys to move to the function you want to perform and press enter. Use the Left and Right arrow keys to move to adjacent menus. Now, let's examine each function on each of the six menus in detail. Name Current Patch Select this function to give the current Patch a name. A dialog box will appear and instruct you to key in the new Patch name. When you press enter, the new name will be sent to the D-110. Remember that the current Patch is in a temporary area of memory. You must store the Patch if you want to keep your changes. Get Patch from Synthesizer The D-110 can hold 64 Patches. To make one current, select this function. The Editor will display the names of all Patches in the D-110's Patch memory. Move the cursor to the one you want and press Enter to get it. By the way, the numbers to the left of the Patch names declare which MIDI program change value to send on the control channel to select the respective Patch via MIDI. Store Patch to Synthesizer After editing the current Patch, you may store it in the D-110's Patch memory. To do so, select this function. The Editor will display the names of all Patches in the D-110's memory. Move the cursor to the position where you want to store the current Patch and press Enter. The Editor will ask you if you are sure. If you answer yes, the Patch memory for that position will be overwritten with the new Patch data. The numbers to the left of the Patch names declare which MIDI program change value to send on the control channel to select the respective Patch via MIDI. Load Patch from Disk This function permits you to load a complete Patch into the D-110's temporary areas (including the Tone temporary areas) from a disk file. When you select this function, the Editor displays a list of Patch files in the current directory. Move the cursor to the desired file and press Enter to load the Patch. Since the Tone temporary areas are loaded from the disk, it doesn't matter which Tone bank is resident in the D-110. You always get the Tones that you saved with the Patch. Save Patch to Disk You may save the current Patch in a disk file with this function. The contents of the Tone temporary areas are saved as well. The Editor will ask you for the desired filename. The file extension will always be "PCH" and the Patch file will be written to the current directory. If a file with the same name exists, the Editor will ask if you want to replace it with the new file. Load Patch Bank from Disk This function allows you to load the D-110's Patch bank from a disk file. When you select this function, the Editor displays a list of Patch bank files in the current directory. Move the cursor to the desired file and press Enter to load the Patch bank. Save Patch Bank to Disk You may save the current contents of the D-110's Patch bank in a disk file with this function. The Editor will ask you for the desired filename. The file extension will always be "PCB" and the Patch bank file will be written to the current directory. If a file with the same name exists, the Editor will ask if you want to replace it with the new file. Set Reverb Type Select this function to set the Reverb Type. As you move through the choices, parameter changes are sent to the D-110 to allow real-time auditioning. Press Enter to select. All reverb parameters are saved and loaded with each Patch. Set Reverb Time Select this function to set the Reverb Time. As you move through the choices, parameter changes are sent to the D-110 to allow real-time auditioning. Press Enter to select. Set Reverb Level Select this function to set the Reverb Level. As you move through the choices, parameter changes are sent to the D-110 to allow real-time auditioning. Press Enter to select. Get Timbre from Synthesizer You may load any of the eight sets of Timbre parameters (associated with the eight synthesizer Parts of the current Patch) from the D-110's two Timbre banks. The affected Part is determined by the position of the cursor when the menu is pulled down. Select this function and you will see a bank of Timbre numbers. (Timbres don't have names.) Use PgUp and PgDn to change banks. Press Enter to get the Timbre settings. The numbers to the left of the Timbre numbers declare which MIDI program change value to send on the MIDI channel of the Part to select the respective Timbre dynamically via MIDI. Store Timbre to Synthesizer You may store the Timbre settings for any of the eight synthesizer Parts to the D-110's Timbre memory. The Timbre to be stored is the one associated with the Part where the cursor was sitting when the menu was pulled down. Select this function and you will see a bank of Timbre numbers. (Timbres don't have names.) Use PgUp and PgDn to change banks. Press Enter to store the Timbre settings. The numbers to the left of the Timbre numbers declare which MIDI program change value to send on the MIDI channel of the Part to select the respective Timbre dynamically via MIDI. Load Timbre Banks from Disk This function allows you to load the D-110's Timbre banks (A and B) from a disk file. When you select this function, the Editor displays a list of Timbre bank files in the current directory. Move the cursor to the desired file and press Enter to load the Timbre banks. Save Timbre Banks to Disk You may save the current contents of the D-110's Timbre banks in a disk file with this function. The Editor will ask you for the desired filename. The file extension will always be "TBB" and the Timbre bank file will be written to the current directory. If a file with the same name exists, the Editor will ask if you want to replace it with the new file. Edit Rhythm Setup Select this function to edit the D-110's Rhythm Setup. The Editor will display the Rhythm Setup parameters for one octave as well as a keyboard to show you which key you are currently editing. Use PgUp and PgDn to change octaves. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired parameter and use the Plus and Minus keys to change it's value. The changed value is immediately sent to the D-110. You may also enter the new value directly. If you press a numeric key, 0 thru 9, the Editor goes into direct input mode. Press Enter to complete the direct input. To view the available Tones, place the cursor on a note for which you want to change Tones and press Enter. (The horizontal position of the cursor doesn't matter.) You will then see an entire tone bank. By moving the cursor around the screen, you can audition all Tones in the bank. Use PgUp and PgDn to change banks. Press Enter to select a Tone or Esc to keep the one that you had before. Note: There is no temporary Rhythm Setup area. All changes take effect immediately. Load Rhythm Setup from Disk This function allows you to load the D-110's Rhythm Setup from a disk file. When you select this function, the Editor displays a list of Rhythm Setup files in the current directory. Move the cursor to the desired file and press Enter to load the Rhythm Setup. Save Rhythm Setup to Disk You may save the current D-110 Rhythm Setup in a disk file with this function. The Editor will ask you for the desired filename. The file extension will always be "RHM" and the Rhythm Setup file will be written to the current directory. If a file with the same name exists, the Editor will ask if you want to replace it with the new file. Edit Current Tone You may edit any of the eight Tones associated with the eight synthesizer Parts of the current Patch. The affected Part is determined by the position of the cursor when the menu is pulled down. Use PgUp and PgDn to display up to four pages of Tone parameters. To edit the Tone, simply use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the desired parameter and use the Plus and Minus keys to change it's value. The changed value is immediately sent to the D-110. You may also enter the new value directly. If you press a numeric key, 0 thru 9, the Editor goes into direct input mode. Press enter to complete the direct input. Tone editing takes place in the Tone temporary areas. If you want to save your changes, be sure to store the Tone before you select a new Patch or a new Timbre for the Part whose Tone you have changed. Name Current Tone Select this function to change the name of the Tone in the Tone temporary area. If you want to keep the new name, be sure to store the Tone. Store Tone to Synthesizer You may store the Tone settings for any of the eight synthesizer Parts to the D-110's Tone memory. The Tone to be stored is the one associated with the Part where the cursor was sitting when the menu was pulled down. Select this function and you will see the names of the programmable Tones in the Tone memory. Press Enter to store the Tone settings. After editing a Tone, you may store it in the D-110's Tone memory. To do so, select this function. The Tone to be stored is the one associated with the Part where the cursor was sitting when the menu was pulled down. The Editor will display the names of all programmable Tones in the D-110's memory. Move the cursor to the position where you want to store the Tone and press Enter. The Editor will ask you if you are sure. If you answer yes, the Tone memory for that position will be overwritten with the new Tone data. Load Tone Bank from Disk This function allows you to load the D-110's programmable Tone bank from a disk file. When you select this function, the Editor displays a list of Tone bank files in the current directory. Move the cursor to the desired file and press Enter to load the Tone bank. Save Tone Bank to Disk You may save the current contents of the D-110's programmable Tone bank in a disk file with this function. The Editor will ask you for the desired filename. The file extension will always be "TNB" and the Tone bank file will be written to the current directory. If a file with the same name exists, the Editor will ask if you want to replace it with the new file. Adjust Master Tune Select this function to tune the synthesizer. Press the Plus and Minus keys to adjust the tuning. Set Exclusive Unit Select this function to change the Exclusive Unit. The Exclusive Unit setting must match that of the D-110 you want to control. You can control up to 16 D-110s. When you select a value, the Editor will attempt to retrieve the memory contents of the D-110 which matches the new Exclusive Unit value. Enable MPU THRU Select this function to enable MIDI THRU on the MPU-401. This is required for real-time auditioning. (MPU THRU is enabled by default when the MPU-401 is first powered up.) Disable MPU THRU Select this function to disable MIDI THRU on the MPU-401. Synchronize This function causes the Editor to retrieve the contents of the D-110's RAM. You should perform this function after you load the D-110 from a memory card so that the Editor knows about the new Tones, Timbres, Patches, or Rhythm Setup. CUSTOMIZING TONE BANKS You may want to create a Tone bank of your favorite Tones. If the Tones you want are in Groups a, b or r, or in the current Group i, simply make them current (select them for up to eight of the Parts) and store them to the synthesizer in the desirable slots. To move Tones between banks, follow this procedure. Load the source Tone bank (the bank which contains the Tones you want), make the desired Tones current (up to eight), load the target bank (the bank to which you want to move the Tones), store the Tones to the synthesizer, and save the new Tone bank to disk. This method also works for Patches and Timbres. Alternately, if you have saved single Patches to disk, you can load a Patch and store each of the eight Tones that were saved with the Patch to the synthesizer. IN CLOSING Thank you for your interest in the Platinum Series from Logical Productions. We are committed to providing high-quality software solutions for today's electronic musicians. We are very interested in your ideas for improving our products. If you have any suggestions, or if your MIDI set-up presents any special challenges, please call or write. Logical Productions 616 South Sunset Canyon Drive Burbank, California 91501 818-848-5973