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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. What is SBAWE32 Control Panel? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- SBAWE32 Control Panel is a tool to control your AWE32 MIDI hardware. The
- control panel lets you
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- 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
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. SBAWE32 Control Panel Interface ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- 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.
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- The SBAWE32 Control Panel tabbed dialog has five pages, Effects, Synth Bank,
- User Bank, WaveFx and Playback.
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- Effects Page
- Synth Bank Page
- User Bank Page
- WaveFx Page
- Playback Page
- Refresh Buttons
- Apply Button
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.1. Effects Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- 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.
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- Reverb & Chorus effect type has the following variations
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- Reverb
- Chorus
- Treble
- Bass
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- 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:
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- Room 1
- Room 2
- Room 3
- Hall 1
- Hall 2
- Plate
- Delay
- Panning Delay
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.2. Synth Bank Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The synth bank page lets you set the synth bank emulation to one of the four
- modes. These are
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- General MIDI
- GS
- MT 32
- User Synth
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.3. User Bank Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- 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.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.4. WaveFx Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- 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.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.5. Playback Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Playback page lets you review the loaded SoundFonts and wave files. The virtual
- keyboard provided can be used to play different notes.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.6. Refresh Buttons ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The two refresh buttons, Refresh All and Refresh This can be used to force the
- control panel to display the current hardware settings.
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- Refresh All refreshes all the five tabbed book pages while Refresh This
- refreshes only the current page.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.7. Apply Button ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The Apply button applies the current control panel setting for the active page
- to the hardware.