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- Welcome to version 0.99, the second release of my DW-8000 editor.
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- This version has loads of new goodies in it:
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- - Drop-down device lists for choosing MIDI in and out.
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- - A compressed main interface panel which manages to fit almost every
- control for the DW-8000 onto a standard VGA screen.
-
- -A new keyboard-friendly (well, friendlier anyway) control of this same
- interface (unfortunately, with that many sliders and buttons, using a
- keyboard to work with it is NOT recommended regardless).
-
- -A few general fixups that make life easier for everybody.
-
- -PATCH PREVIEW! All patch lists (whether file selection lists or lists of
- patches in banks) are now live. Single-clicking a file will dump it to the
- Korg. This preview takes a couple of seconds to transmit and does not at
- all effect the patch already loaded into the editor. This option is
- individually controlled by in each preview-aware dialog box. A convenient
- way to listen to lots of patches is just start at the top of a file list and
- use the arrow keys to move down through all of them.
-
- -BANK MANIPULATION! Two new commands in the file menu give you two brand-new
- dialogs for working with 64-patch banks for the DW-8000. File | Extract Bank
- will let you take a given sysex bank and extract all of the individual
- patches as files for editing. A single base filename is used (e.g. "MYBANK"
- to which program numbers are mapped (MYBANK11.SYX, MYBANK12.SYX, etc.).
- There is an option to create directories on the fly for banks. There is no
- specific format for bank files; as long as there is patch data in there, the
- extraction procedure will find them, although with unusual files the
- program number mapping will not be quite correct.
- The File | Create Bank dialog allows you to create banks with up to 64
- patches to be sent en masse via sysex. The editor will do this for you, or
- you can save the bank as a .SYX file to be sent by [insert favorite sequencer
- here]. Since individual patches essentially lose any identity a filename
- gave them, there is also an option to keep track of banks with bank lists.
- Bank lists contain the names of all the individual files used in a bank.
- The terminology is circular but the process is very powerful--play around
- with it a while. The "transmit all" command, which in the worst case can
- overwrite every single patch on your keyboard, has a built-in warning. Go
- crazy. Unless you want to send patches via a sequencer, there's really no
- reason to work with anything except bank lists. The editor will read them
- and send all the files referenced if you ask it to.
-
- -Anything else that looks different but I've forgotten to mention.
-
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- Hope you like it. I think this is a quality piece of software, so if you
- use it, I wouldn't mind a little (eensy) bit of compensation in the form
- of $$$ sent to me, but it is NOT shareware. If you don't want to pay
- you don't have to. If you do, you can be assured of personal support
- and any suggestions you have will be implemented that much more quickly.
-
- Enough ranting... download 0.99, and have a blast.
-
- Anthony Ruggeri - aruggeri@phoenix.princeton.edu
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- 201 Henry Hall
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
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