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#:main
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****** KORG M1 Bank Manager ******
************************************
0:-
+| * Introduction *
=:intro
+| * The Menus *
=:menus
+| * The Icons *
=:icons
+| * Using the Mouse *
=:mouse
+| * Using the Keyboard *
=:keyboard
+| * Limitations *
=:limitations
+| * Disclaimer *
=:disclaimer
+| * Copyright *
=:copyright
+| * Final Remarks *
=:final
/
/
#:help
U|How to use this documentation program
Use the arrow keys or mouse to move around in the menus:
Up/down arrow or mousepointer selects the various menu entries.
Right arrow/left mousebutton/Return selects an entry ('pops in').
Left arrow/right mousebutton/Undo jumps to previous menu ('pops out').
ClrHome always brings you to the main menu.
Escape always exits the program.
Help brings up this menu.
Now press the right mousebutton or the left arrow to go back to where
you came from...
/
/
#:intro
U|Introduction
T:¯
The M1 Bank Manager -M1_BANKS.PRG- is meant to be a very flexible
librarian that will help you organize all those M1-patches you so
carefully designed. You are now able to maintain libraries of M1
patches (Programs) and multi-timbral setups (Combinations), save
them to disk, dump them to your M1, perform System-Exclusive dumps
of all M1 parameters and lots more.
In fact the program consists of two separate librarians - a Program
librarian and a Combination librarian. Since both operate in exactly
the same way, this document will only mention 'sounds' or 'programs',
always meaning 'sounds', 'programs' or 'combinations'. Read the
chapter 'The Menus / Mode' to learn more about switching from one
librarian to the other. Note that when switching from one librarian
to the other, the appropriate menu-entries change accordingly; e.g.
'Send Sound(s)' in Program Mode becomes 'Send Combi(s)' when in
Combinaton mode. So when talking about the menu-entry 'Send Sound(s)'
we always intend to mean -both- versions of the entry.
+:Next page...
=:intro2
/
/
#:intro2
Since the program is so flexible, some things may not be clear at first
sight. Therefore it is highly recommended that you read this documentation
before using the program. Since many users often don't have the patience to
'read before doing', you should at least read the following section, in
order not to lose valuable data (e.g. that patch you've just finished after
days of blood, sweat and tears).
Before doing anything else (except for reading this document of course),
you should make a backup of all your M1-data. The next steps are involved:
- Turn on your M1 and be sure it's properly connected to your ST (i.e.
MIDI INs and OUTs *both* connected).
- Start the program M1_BANKS.PRG.
- Go to the '--M1--' menu and select the option 'M1 to Disk'.
- In the dialog that now appears, click on 'All'.
- After a while the fileselector appears. Type in a name for the backup-
files to be saved, e.g. 'BACKUP'. There's no need to provide an extension
for the file - the program will take care of that.
- You now have a backup of your M1 data, split in 4 different files. If you
want to know how to restore those data (i.e. send them to the M1), read
the chapter 'The Menus / --M1-- / Disk to M1'.
+:Next page...
=:intro3
/
/
#:intro3
A last remark before we get to the 'real worx'. You should understand the
basic concept of the program. The desktop contains 100 slots which
correspond to the 100 programs of combinations in the M1. Slots can contain
sounds and can be saved, sent etc. So a 'soundslot' is sort of the basic
unit for the program. For that reason it is not possible to make libraries
containing more than 100 sounds. Restrictive, you say? No, just maintain
different libraries with different kinds of sounds - this will be far more
comprehensible than one big library with 1000+ sounds.
Since a slot is 'what's being acted upon', most of the operations require
you to *select* the slots you want the operation to have an effect on.
Selecting a slot is accomplished by clicking on it, or shift-dragging to
select multiple slots. Whenever an operation doesn't seem to have any
effect, be sure there are (non-empty) slots selected.
+:Next page...
=:intro4
/
/
#:intro4
The program knows various kinds of actions: you can select a menu-item,
you can use the mouse to drag, click or double-click various elements in
the desktop, lots of commands can be invoked by pressing a certain key-
combination and using the desktop-icons can considerably speed up many
actions. Therefore we split this manual in sections corresponding to
those various 'action fields':
+| * The Menus *
=:menus
+| * The Icons *
=:icons
+| * Using the Mouse *
=:mouse
+| * Using the Keyboard *
=:keyboard
+| * Limitations *
=:limitations
+| * Disclaimer *
=:disclaimer
+| * Copyright *
=:copyright
+| * Final Remarks *
=:final
/
/
#:menus
U|The Menus
T:¯
+| * File *
=:file
+| * Edit *
=:edit
+| * --M1-- *
=:m1
+| * Options *
=:options
+| * Mode *
=:mode
+| * Safety *
=:safety
+| * Help *
=:on help
/
/***************** FILE MENU ********************************
/
#:file
U|File menu
T:¯
+: New
=:new
+: Open
=:open
+: Open with pos
=:openpos
+: Open & Set
=:openset
+: Save
=:save
+: Save Settings
=:saveset
+: Print Desktop
=:printdt
+: Print Library
=:printlib
+: Printer Settings
=:printset
+: Delete File
=:delete file
+: Quit
=:quit
/
/
#:new
U|New
T:¯
Erases all the sounds in the desktop. If 'Safety/Deletes' is checked, you
will be asked to confirm this operation. If 'Options/Auto Deselect' is
checked, all selected slots will be deselected.
+:Open...
=:open
+:Back to The Menus...
=:menus
/
/
#:open
U|Open
T:¯
Opens a library. Program libraries are files with an extension MPR (i.e.
M1 PR'ograms), combination libraries have an extension MCO (...). The file-
selector will appear with the appropriate files shown, depending on whether
you're in Program-mode or in Combination-mode. Select the library you want
to load, and click OK. When you enter the name of the file by hand, you need
not type the extension, since the program does that for you. Also the
program won't allow you to load files with non-valid extensions.
Note that 'Open' works as a 'merge': sounds already present are not
automatically deleted when loading a new file.
When you press one of the SHIFT keys while selecting 'Open', the file-
selector will show *both* the libraries (i.e. MPR or MCO files) *and* the
backup-files (MPB and MCB - see 'Safety/Backups'). This way you're able to
load backups of libraries. This is the one exception to the rule that the
program won't allow you to load other files than MPR/MCO files...
+:Open with pos...
=:openpos
+:Back to The Menus...
=:menus
/
/
#:openpos
U|Open with pos
T:¯
Also opens a library. The slots where the sounds were located last time you
saved the library are saved with the library. 'Open with pos' now loads the
sounds in a library back to those positions.
Be careful, as you might overwrite sounds already present in the desktop.
+:Open & Set...
=:openset
+:Back to The Menus...
=:menus
/
/
#:openset
U|Open & Set
T:¯
Opens a library. You are presented with a dialog in which all the sounds
of the file can be seen (and selected). You can choose between loading all
sounds or loading only the sounds you've selected. Furthermore you can
choose between loading the sounds to the first free positions on the desk-
top (Free), to adjacent positions, starting from the first selected desktop-
position (Adjacent), to exactly the selected desktop-positions (Selected),
or to the positions that were stored with the file (Positions). The settings
you make in this dialog will affect all further 'File/Open' o