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- VcEd Yamaha 4 OP Voice Editor
- By: Charles A. Brand
- Copyright (c) 1990
-
- INSTRUCTIONS:
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-
- Intro
-
- The VcEd Voice Editor is written for the Yamaha DS55 4 Operator FM
- Synthesis Keyboard/Synthesizer. The Editor allows you to build and Edit
- your own Voices or Tones, and then lets you transmit them to the keyboard or
- save them to a file. Using the Editor is quite easy, and it allows you to
- start from scratch or start with a Pre-Set voice by selecting a voice on the
- keyboard and then use the Menu Selection in the Editor to Send the voice
- from the keyboard to the Amiga and start Editing from there.
- You Edit a voice, by using the mouse to click on the parameter value that
- you want to change. You work on one Operator at a time, and you click on
- the Operator number to increment to the next Operator.
-
- Start-Up
-
- Upon starting VcEd you will see Initialized Voice data on the screen. At
- this point you can start Editing from Scratch. To change a parameter,
- simply Click the pointer over top of the parameter and it will be
- highlighted. At this time you can use the Gadgets, at the Lower Right hand
- corner of the screen, to change the parameter value.
-
-
- The Gadgets
-
- The Gadgets consist of a Slider Gadget, Left and Right Arrow Gadgets, and
- a TEST Gadget. The Gadgets function pretty much like you would expect them
- to.
-
- The Slider Gadget is clicked on and then Slid Left and Right, and while
- doing so, it will show a value in the box below it.
-
- The Left and Right Arrow Gadgets, when clicked on, will increment or
- decrement the value in the box below the Slider Gadget.
-
- The TEST gadget will transmit the voice, as it sits plus the changes you
- are making to the voice, to the Keyboard, then sends a 'Note On' command
- (Middle C) to let you hear the voice. After the tone has played, VcEd then
- Sends the Voice back to the Keyboard the way it was before the changes. After
- you set the parameter to the value that you want you have to click on the OK
- Gadget to exit from Edit mode.
-
- The TEST Gadget is also active while IN or OUT of Edit mode, however once
- you leave Edit mode, the Voice you will hear is the voice as it sounded
- before you changed a parameter, UNLESS you have the AUTO UPDATE MODE on, and
- in this case, everytime you exit Edit Mode the new voice will automatically
- be re-transmitted to the Keyboard. Otherwise, after you leave Edit Mode, you
- will have to Send the voice to the Keyboard yourself with the Menu selection
- shown below.
-
-
- The Menus
-
- The Main Menu has two selections, they are 'Init Voice' and 'Quit'. 'Init
- Voice' initializes the voice to a standard 4 Operator INIT VOICE as defined
- by Yamaha in the DX11 Owners Manual. I assumed that this was a Yamaha
- Standard. 'Quit' does exactly that, it returns you to the CLI or Workbench.
-
- The Load Menu allows you to Load a Voice from the Keyboard or from a
- file. You can load a voice from the keyboard, and start editing it from
- that point. This is handy if there is a voice, in the Keyboard, that you
- would like to make changes to. You can Load a voice, that you were editing
- or Saved earlier, from a disk file. This is handy if you had a voice you
- were Editing and just did not have time to finish, you can come back to it
- later.
-
- The Save Menu allows you to Save the voice to a disk file, or Send the
- voice to the Keyboard. You can Save a voice to a disk file to edit later or
- just to keep around as your own INIT VOICE. After Editing a Voice to the way
- you want it, you can Send it to the Keyboard and place it into the USER Voice
- number you want by:
-
- 1. Transmit the voice to the keyboard with the Send Voice Menu selection.
- 2. On the keyboard Press the 'Store' button then the '-1' button to turn
- off the memory protect.
- 3. Press the 'Store' button again and enter the USER MEMORY Voice number
- that you wish to send the voice to. (TWO Digits. ex. 09)
- 4. At this time, the Keyboard will be asking you if it is OK, and showing
- the name of the voice that is already at that location.
- 5. Press the '+1' button if you wish to store the voice, or the '-1'
- button to cancel the operation.
- 6. At this time it would be a good idea to write protect the memory again
- by Pressing the 'Store' button again and then the '+1' button.
- 7. The Voice is now in User Memory permanently until you change it
- yourself.
-
- Note that anytime during editing, you can transmit your voice to the
- Keyboard without wiping out any of your USER Voices, because the voice goes
- into an Edit Buffer and allows you to hear that voice until you put it into
- USER MEMORY or select another voice with the '+1' or '-1' buttons or use the
- NUMBER buttons to select another voice.
-
- The last Menu is the 'Misc' Menu and is used to toggle the AUTO UPDATE
- Mode ON or OFF. The current setting is shown to the Right hand side of the
- Voice Name Parameter and is shown as either 'AUTO OFF' or 'AUTO ON'. It is
- set to OFF at Start-Up. When this Mode is selected, the Voice you are
- Editing will automatically be Sent to the Keyboard whenever you Exit Edit
- Mode by Clicking on the OK Gadget. When this Mode is OFF, you must Send the
- Voice to the Keyboard yourself with the 'Send Voice' Menu selection.
-
- Finally, each Menu selection has a key Sequence assigned to it also, so
- that you can use the keyboard instead of the pull-down Menus. They are :
-
- Main:
- Init Voice - Right Amiga I (Initialize)
- Quit - Right Amiga Q (Quit)
-
- Load:
- Load Voice from File - Right Amiga L (Load)
- * Load Voice from DS55 - Right Amiga R (Recieve)
-
- Save:
- * Send Voice to File - Right Amiga S (Save)
- Send Voice to DS55 - Right Amiga T (Transmit)
-
- Misc:
- Automatic Update - Right Amiga A (AUTO ON/OFF)
-
-
- * Note that the Menu Items marked with an asterisk are not
- available in the DEMO Version of VcEd.
- (Hey, its only $10.00. I need a hard drive bad!!)
-
- Notes
-
- Some of the parameters, when clicked on, will Toggle, and will not need
- the Edit Gadgets. This is because they only have two states or possible
- values. These are : AME (0 or 1), Osc. Mode (Ratio or Fixed), Delay (On or
- Off), Delay Short/Long (Short or Long), Port Mode (FULL T or Fingered),
- Poly/Mono (Poly or Mono) (Gee, I bet you could-a guessed that last one), and
- finally LFO Sync (On or Off). If the AUTO Update Mode is on, then toggled
- parameters will still automatically update the voice to the Keyboard.
-
- Make sure your Keyboard is on before trying to Recieve a voice from it,
- or the program will send the Voice Edit Buffer Dump Request to Nothing and
- sit and wait for ever!!!!! If this happens, turn your keyboard on and
- manually transmit a bulk dump to VcEd. Your screen will appear to be a mass
- of crap at this point but it won't be locked up anymore. Now select the INIT
- VOICE Menu selection from the Main Menu. Now your set to do some editing
- again. Don't forget you have 4 Operators to program!!!!!
-
- How to Order the Fully Functional VcEd
-
- You can Order the fully functional Version of VcEd from me at :
-
- Charles A. Brand
- 95 Parana Dr.
- Newark, Ohio 43055
- Phone : 614-745-5361
-
- The Cost is $10.00 and you get the Source code written in fully commented
- 'C' language, a file that expalains the program line by line, and a layout
- of the buffer data and explanation of how it is implemented. I promise that
- I have worked my butt off on this project and that it is worth every penny
- of what I am asking. (Just ask me I'll tell you!)
- Any donation of $15.00 or more, will also get a SysEx program and a Voice
- Printout program, also with the 'C' Source Code for both.
- The SysEx will save standard 32 Voice and 100 Voice Bulk Dumps to disk
- and back to the Keyboard (DX and DS55). This program will also do System
- Set-up Dumps as well.
- The PrintDump program will print out the Voice parameter data from bulk
- dump files. You have the choice of a single voice or all 32 Voices of a
- standard 32 voice Yamaha 4 Op bulk dump.
- The Source for both of the extra programs is also fully commented.
- Feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or complaints and I
- will try my best to change, enhance, or help anybody do the same to this
- program. (Please do not call collect!)
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