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- 64 New Instruments For Your Soundblaster
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- "NEW.INS" is a file that can be loaded into Lyra. It will give
- your Soundblaster 64 new instrument sounds.
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- The procedure for making use of these new sounds is as follows:
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- 1. First, make an entry in the "events table". Select the
- "Events" command in the MIDI menu. Type "New Ins", press the
- down arrow key, type "new.ins", and press the ENTER key. Now you
- have told Lyra that when it plays event 0, it should load a
- Soundblaster instrument file in called "new.ins". The "New Ins"
- is just a label which you can change to whatever you want.
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- 2. Now enter an event marker into music at the point you want the
- new instruments loaded. Most likely this will be at the start of
- music. Select the "Events" command in the OPTION menu. Move the
- cursor until the correct event number is highlighted (0 in our
- case; notice that the event label "New Ins" shows up here) and
- press the ENTER key. Move the cursor so it is on the staff and
- press then ENTER key. You will see an "E0". This means "Event 0".
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- 3. Set up the instrument table. This is done by selecting the
- "Instruments" command in the MIDI menu. Type in "Soundblaster"
- for the first line (this is actually optional); press the down
- arrow and type in the number of the instrument you want (see the
- table below), press the down arrow key once more and type in the
- instrument name. Continue entering as many instruments as you
- want and press the ENTER key when you're done.
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- 4. Select one of the available instruments by entering an
- instrument marker into music. This done the same way the event
- marker was entered. This time, though, select "Instruments" in
- the OPTION menu. Move the bar until the right instrument is
- highlighted and press the ENTER key. Move the cursor to where you
- want the instrument change to take place, and press the ENTER
- key.
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- The file "NEW.LYR" has all of this done for you. In addition, a test
- sequence of notes has been entered so you can audition the first
- 16 instrument sounds. If you want to listen to the remainder,
- change the instrument table numbers.
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- Of course, make sure that you have correctly set up the
- "Configure" command so that "MIDI device" is "SBLASTER-S" and the
- correct "Address" is set. You don't need to worry about the
- "Interrupt".
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- You can change to any of the 16 instruments in the instrument
- table as often as you wish. Unfortunately, it is not possible at
- this point to have more than one instrument sound playing at a
- time. If you are interested in this capability, please let me
- know and I'll see what can be done!
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- Any questions or comments may be addressed to:
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- Lester Hands
- MusicWare
- Hamlet Route, Box 1261
- Seaside, OR 97138
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- A List of the 64 Soundblaster Instruments in "NEW.INS"
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- 1 - ACCORDN 24 - ELGUIT1 47 - SYN5
- 2 - BASSOON1 25 - ELGUIT2 48 - SYN9
- 3 - BDRUM1 26 - ELGUIT3 49 - SYNBASS1
- 4 - BELLS 27 - ELPIANO2 50 - SYNBASS2
- 5 - CELESTA 28 - FLUTE 51 - SYNBASS4
- 6 - CLAR1 29 - FLUTE1 52 - TINCAN1
- 7 - CROMORNE 30 - FLUTE2 53 - TOM1
- 8 - ELPIANO1 31 - HARPSI2 54 - TOM2
- 9 - HARPSI1 32 - HARPSI3 55 - TROMB1
- 10 - HIHAT1 33 - JAVAICAN 56 - TROMB2
- 11 - LASER 34 - JEWSHARP 57 - TRUMPET1
- 12 - LOGDRUM1 35 - MARIMBA1 58 - TRUMPET2
- 13 - SYN1 36 - MARIMBA2 59 - TRUMPET3
- 14 - SYN2 37 - OBOE1 60 - TRUMPET4
- 15 - SYN3 38 - ORGAN1 61 - TUBA1
- 16 - SYN4 39 - ORGAN2 62 - VIBRA1
- 17 - BANJO1 40 - ORGAN3 63 - VIOLIN1
- 18 - BASS1 41 - PIANO1 64 - VIOLIN2
- 19 - BASS2 42 - PIANO2 65 - VLNPIZZ1
- 20 - BRASS1 43 - SAX1 66 - WAVE
- 21 - CBASSOON 44 - SITAR1 67 - XYLO1
- 22 - CLAR2 45 - SNAKEFL 68 - XYLO2
- 23 - ELCLAV1 46 - SNARE1
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