1. Abstract

bs-1 is a Soundfont 2 compatible sampler for Steinberg VST 2 format. You can use all soundfont 2 files for Creative Sound Blaster series. bs-1 supports Mac OS and Windows .

2. Tested System

Blue & White (Yosemite) Power Macintosh G3 400MHz 192MB RAM
Mac OS 9.1 Japanese
Steinberg VST 2 supported host application

Steinberg Cubase VST 5.0
emagic Logic Audio Platinum 4.6.3

Windows 98SE Japanese
Steinberg VST 2 supported host application

Steinberg Cubase VST 5.0 demo
emagic Logic Audio Platinum 4.6.1

3. Specifications

• Oscillator/Amplifier/Filter
• Modulation LFO (to Osc/Amp/Fil) and Vibrato LFO (to Osc) supported
• Volume EG (to Amp) and Modulation EG (to Osc/Fil) supported
• 64 voices
• 1280 regions
• VST Plug in ID : 'bs01'
• Receive MIDI Channel: 1 - 16 (don't care)
• Receive MIDI Message (depends on your host application)
  • note off message
  • note on message (velocity supported)
  • control change message
    • #0 bank select msb
    • #1 modulation
    • #6 data entry msb
    • #7 volume
    • #10 panpot
    • #11 expression
    • #64 hold1
    • #71 sound control 2 (timbre/harmony indensity)
    • #72 sound control 3 (release time)
    • #73 sound control 4 (attack time)
    • #74 sound control 5 (brightness)
    • #75 sound control 6 (decay time)
    • #76 sound control 7 (vibrato rate)
    • #77 sound control 8 (vibrato depth)
    • #78 sound control 9 (vibrato delay)
    • #98 nrpn lsb
    • #99 nrpn msb
      • msb 0x01, lsb 0x08 vibrato rate
      • msb 0x01, lsb 0x09 vibrato depth
      • msb 0x01, lsb 0x0A vibrato delay
      • msb 0x01, lsb 0x20 cutoff frequency
      • msb 0x01, lsb 0x21 resonance
      • msb 0x01, lsb 0x63 TVA & TVF env attack time
      • msb 0x01, lsb 0x64 TVA & TVF env decay time
      • msb 0x01, lsb 0x66 TVA & TVF env release time
    • #100 rpn lsb
    • #101 rpn msb
      • msb 0x00, lsb 0x00 pitch bend sensitivity
      • msb 0x00, lsb 0x01 master fine tuning
      • msb 0x00, lsb 0x02 master coarse tuning
  • program change message
  • pitch bend Change Message

4. How to install/uninstall

• To install, copy "bs-1" or "bs-1 demo" (for Windows, "bs-1.dll" or "bs-1demo.dll") to "VstPlugIns" folder of your host application.
• To uninstall delete the file in the folder.

5. How to use

• Startup bs-1 from you host application, and open editor window.

• Select "Open" in "File" menu

• Select your soundfont file in file open dialog.

• bs-1 can load only one soundfont2 file(*.sf2). You can load a file in any volume and folder. These files seems to be loaded into host application's heap memory in Mac OS.
• You can select presets by control "bank" parameter (same as MIDI bank select MSB) and "program" parameter (same as MIDI program change).
• You can select #0 - #127 program in popup menu, and use "<" (-10), "-" (-1), "+" (+1), ">" (+10) buttons.
• If "type" button shows "melodic instrument", you can select melodic instruments (bank = 0 ...127). If "type" button shows "drum instrument", you can select drum instruments (bank = 128 only -> "bank" knob disabled)

• Polyphonic number is controlled by "poly" knob from 1 to 64. You can save processor power by this knob.
• These 3 parameters may be effective for saving CPU power.

• Select "Close" in "File" menu to clear memory.

6. License

bs-1 is shareware. If you find it useful for you and your environment, please send me US$30 registration fee. The method for payment is :

Using a shareware registration service provided by Kagi Shareware.
online order page is available here - http://order.kagi.com/?TLJ

This license is for both platforms, the password for Mac OS and Windows OS are same.

All registered users can receive an e-mail including "user name" (your email address) and "password" for 2 or 3 days. After input them in plugin window, all ristrictions will be removed.

Input your registration name (your email address)

Input your password (8 characters)

Press "register !" button to regist

Before registration,

• You must have an -bowwow- beep sound for every 10 sec with demo version.

7. Distribution

for non-commercial distribution

Please keep package contents unchanged.
please let me know where you post it.

for commercial distribution

Prior permission is required.
Price is not unreasonable.
Any right or responsibility is not transferred.
No changes from the author's original package are allowed.
One set of distribution materials is provided to the author.

To use for commercial purposes, prior permission from the author is required.

8. Copyright

This software, accompanying written materials, and sample files are copyright bismark.

9. Warranty

This software and accompanying written materials are provided "as is" without a warranty of any kind. Any damage caused by using or impossibility to use this software or accompanying written materials is the responsibility of the user.
By using this software and accompanying written materials, a user can freely produce and distribute data or software which can be used by this software. However, any damage or trouble caused by the distribution or by using materials distributed is the responsibility of the user. This software does not support all parameters of soundfont 2.0 specification. So output sounds of this software may differ from other soundfont compatible software.

10. Version History

• Version 1.1.2 27 February 2001
  • fixed bug on startup procedure
• Version 1.1.1 26 February 2001
  • fixed bug on control poly parameter
• Version 1.1 5 February 2001
• Version 1.1beta3 30 January 2001
  • Removed key/velocoty regions parameter (fixed to 1280)
• Version 1.1beta2 10 January 2001
  • fixed character of low pass filter
• Version 1.1b1 30 December 2000
  • added key/velocity regions parameter
  • changed maximum polyphonic number to 64
  • EG/LFO supported
  • added attack/decay/release/cutoff/Q/vib rate/vib depth/vib delay parameter
  • fixed bug on coarse tuning (Thanx ! > Sten Svensson)
• Version 1.0.5, （not released）
  • fixed bug about number of key/velocity regions overflow crash (Thanx ! > Pentagon)
  • changed maximum number of regions to 1280
• Version 1.0.4, 4 September 2000
  • Windows only: fixed bug on change parameter while sound is playing
• Version 1.0.3, 10 August 2000
  • supported Windows (only test release)
  • fixed GUI control and displays
  • fixed low pass filtering (resonance supported)
• Version 1.0.2, 8 June 2000
  • "poly" knob added (Thanx ! > Tomo_ya san)
  • fixed bug on loading file
• Version 1.0.1, 5 June 2000
  • supported sample-accurate sync
  • fixed drum instrument control
• Version 1.0, 22 May 2000

10. Soundfont Resources

• HammerSound
• soundfont.com
• thesoundsite.ismi.net

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