═══ 1. What is SBAWE32 Control Panel? ═══

SBAWE32 Control Panel is a tool to control your AWE32 MIDI hardware. The 
control panel lets you 

   1. Apply effects to the MIDI sound 
   2. Change the Synthesizer Emulation 
   3. Load custom SoundFont files into the 128 banks 
   4. Upload wave files to be used as instrument samples 
   5. Review loaded intrument samples using the virtual keyboard 


═══ 2. SBAWE32 Control Panel Interface ═══

The control panel interface uses the page tabbed dialog metaphor to conserve 
desktop space.  The concept is quite similar to the the standard OS/2 notebook 
interface.  Each page in the tabbed dialog can be accessed by clicking on its 
tab, which is displayed at the top of the dialog. The tab also displays a text 
describing the page it activates. 

The SBAWE32 Control Panel tabbed dialog has five pages, Effects, Synth Bank, 
User Bank, WaveFx and Playback. 

      Effects Page 
      Synth Bank Page 
      User Bank Page 
      WaveFx Page 
      Playback Page 
      Refresh Buttons 
      Apply Button 


═══ 2.1. Effects Page ═══

The effects page lets you select the default effects to apply to the MIDI 
sound. SBAWE32 supports multiple effects where each effect is identified by an 
effect type,  Reverb & Chorus. Each effect type can have multiple effect sub 
types which are referred to as effect variations. Each effect variation can be 
further adjusted to a custom value. 

Reverb & Chorus effect type has the following variations 

      Reverb 
      Chorus 
      Treble 
      Bass 

 Each of this effect variation can be configured to a value which programs the 
 variation specifc parameter. For example the variation Reverb can be 
 configured to any of the following eight values: 

      Room 1 
      Room 2 
      Room 3 
      Hall 1 
      Hall 2 
      Plate 
      Delay 
      Panning Delay 


═══ 2.2. Synth Bank Page ═══

The synth bank page lets you set the synth bank emulation to one of the four 
modes. These are 

      General MIDI 
      GS 
      MT 32 
      User Synth 

 Each of this mode has a SoundFont file attached to it. When a new mode is 
 selected and applied, the attached SoundFont file is loaded and the synth 
 emulation is changed. 

 Default SoundFont files are supplied that provide the emulation for all the 
 four modes, but these can be changed to use custom SoundFont files through the 
 control panel. 


═══ 2.3. User Bank Page ═══

User Bank page allows you to load SoundFont files into one of the 127 user 
banks in AWE32. Each of these banks can have a different or same SoundFont file 
and when a MIDI bank switch message is received the appropriate bank is 
selected and instruments from the new bank played. 


═══ 2.4. WaveFx Page ═══

WaveFx page lets you load wave files for specfic instruments. Once a wave file 
is loaded for an instrument, the wave file is played back as the instrument 
sample. 


═══ 2.5. Playback Page ═══

Playback page lets you review the loaded SoundFonts and wave files. The virtual 
keyboard provided can be used to play different notes. 


═══ 2.6. Refresh Buttons ═══

The two refresh buttons, Refresh All and Refresh This can be used to force the 
control panel to display the current hardware settings. 

Refresh All refreshes all the five tabbed book pages while Refresh This 
refreshes only the current page. 


═══ 2.7. Apply Button ═══

The Apply button applies the current control panel setting for the active page 
to the hardware.