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- The Sound Monitor KeyBoard function keys description
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-
- Use The following keys:
- a) In step edit mode:
- F1 - Load Song
- F2 - Save Song
- F3 - Play Song all over
- F4 - Play Song from current step
- F5 - Stop Playing
- F6 - Change Songlength
- F7 - Save Module
- F8 - Edit current Sample
- F9 - Insert Step
- F10- Delete Step
- = - Toggle Noteinsert (for patterneditor)
- \ - Toggle KeyBoardPlay (for patterneditor)
- [ - Shift KeyBoard to lower octave (dito.)
- ] - Shift KeyBoard to higher octave (and again)
- ESC- Clear Song
- ` - Goto
- DEL- Reload Samples
- HELP- Quit
- A-F/0-9 - Edit data
-
- Keypad:
- + - Next Sample
- - - Previous Sample
- ENTER - Use Preset (When presets are loaded). The Preset file is named
- PLST, and is in the same format as the soundtracker PLST. (so
- you can use ST's PED too).
- Use cursor keys to select preset, RETURN to use, ENTER to cancel
- * - Asks for a samplename (without diskname) and searches this one in the
- presets list and loads it. (Where a '*' in the samplename stands for
- any number of any kind of char. For example:
- BASS* could mean BASSDRUM or BASSGUITAR or BASS.
- Note that BASS*DRUM is the same as BASS* cause wildcards are only
- usefull at the end of the samplename).
-
- b) In Pattern edit mode:
- Most keys do the same except,
- F9 - Copy Pattern
- F10- Clear Pattern
- The keyboard is now transfered into a Piano-like keyboard as follows
-
- 2 3 5 6 7 9 0
- C#2 D#2 F#2 G#2 A#2 C#3 D#3
-
- Q W E R T Y U I O P
- C-2 D-2 E-2 F-2 G-2 A-2 B-2 C-3 D-3 E-3
-
- S D G H J L ;
- C#1 D#1 F#1 G#1 A#1 C#2 D#2
-
- Z X C V B N M , . /
- C-1 D-1 E-1 F-1 G-1 A-1 B-1 C-2 D-2 E-2
-
- (Like SoundTracker...)
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- Technical Details:
-
- This is the second version of my soundeditor, the first one was written
- in Basic (yes, Basic). The player was created in august 1988, so was
- the first editor. This second version was written entirely in assembler
- (yes, Assembler !!!), and it was created in four days (from 29-1-1989
- till 1-2-1989). The source code is over 60Kbytes long. In the near
- future I will problaly improve some functions (like the character-read-
- routine and the keyboard-play-routine). Brian's soundmon contains the
- following options:
- 0 = arpeggio
- 1 = set volume
- 2 = set tempo (6=normal,1=fastest)
- 3 = set LED status
- 4 = slide up
- 5 = slide down
- 6 = set repeat counter
- 7 = decreases repeat counter and branches to pattern number in data
- when repeat counter reached zero
- 8 = Set Auto Slide
- 9 = Set Auto Arpeggio
- A = Transposes off. As follows: If the hi-nibble of the data is not
- zero then transpose is turned off, if the low-nibble of the data is
- not zero then soundtranspose is turned off.
- Example: A-00 ->normal, A-10->no transpose, A-01->no soundtranspose
- and A-11 is no transpose and no soundtranspose.
-
- Options 6 & 7 can be used to repeat a song part several times.
- Problaly there will be some options added in the future.
-
- You can edit up to 341 (=$155) patterns, because I allocated 16Kb of
- memory for the patterns, if you need more -> call me. The maximum
- samplelength = 65534 bytes.
-
- Update 29-3-1989: Today I added Module Saving, use the normal Player to
- play modules, adjust the length of the 'bpsong: blk.b' to the module
- length and set the length of 's1-sf' to zero.
- Modules are saved in 'ST-00:MODULES/"
-
- For more detailed instructions read: BS.DOC (also on this disk)
-
- Brian's Soundmon was created by Brian Postma.
-
- N.B.: I have not added a filerequester (yet), instead of this you can
- type 'DIR BPSONGS' from your CLI. Use the normal Amiga keys to
- switch screens (these are: 'LEFT-AMIGA+N' and 'LEFT-AMIGA+M')
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- For questions, remarks, compliments or complaints contact:
-
- Brian Postma
- J.v.Hartenstraat 51
- 7576VX Oldenzaal
- Holland
- Tel: 05410-14763
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- Special thanks to: -Martin, for pushing me all the time to write this
- program (Otherwise it was never written).
- -Rush,Metallica,Queensryche,Megadeth and Sanctuary,
- for aural stimulation.
-