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            Sunrize Studio 16 Support

    We've been working closely with the folks at Sunrize Industries,
makers of the AD1012 and AD516 direct-to-disk boards, to integrate
their Studio 16 digital audio software with Bars&Pipes Professional.

    The Sunrize hardware and software, when integrated with Bars&Pipes
Professional, provide a complete desktop music and audio production
studio on your desktop.  (Add the One-Stop Music Shop board and you
can put the entire studio in your computer!)

    To accomplish this task, we've included a set of Accessories and
Tools that solve all possible needs, ranging from SMPTE synchronization
to audio Track recording to multi-media sound effects generation.


SUNRIZE ACCESSORIES:
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NAME: SunMPTE

    DESCRIPTION:  The SunMPTE Accessory allows Bars&Pipes Pro to
synchronize to SMPTE input entering the SMPTE port on the SunRize
board, or generated by the SunRize SMPTE Generator module.

    When you double-click on this accessory's icon, a control window
opens.  At the top the current SMPTE time is displayed.  Underneath
are two buttons, Activate and Run Lock.  If the Activate button is
depressed Bars&Pipes Pro will receive SMPTE and will start and stop in
sync with SMPTE input.  If both the Activate and Run Lock buttons are
depressed (default) Bars&Pipes Pro continuously updates its internal
time based on SMPTE input events, ensuring proper synchronization.




NAME: SunSet

    DESCRIPTION:  The SunSet Accessory allows you to run all the
SunRize Studio16 modules within the Bars&Pipes Pro screen.  When this
icon is double-clicked on the Studio16 Instance window will open,
allowing you to access all of the Studio16 software.

    The SunSet Accessory also allows you to have a unique environment
setup within Bars&Pipes Pro.  When the Instance window opens, there
will always be a module named "B&PSavePrefs".  Selecting this module
saves all preferences in the Master Preferences (except the color map)
and the size, position, and configuration of all modules currently
open.  This information is saved independantly of the normal Studio16
preferences.  The files used to save this information are in the S:
directory, Studio16BPP.config holds the defaults from the Master
Preferences, and BPPInstance holds the configuration of all the open
modules.

    Bars&Pipes Pro keeps track of whether the Instance window is open
and if Quit is selected to leave Bars&Pipes Pro and the Instance
window is open, all other modules will be automatically closed.  If
you close the instance window, make sure that you close all other
Studio16 windows before leaving Bars&Pipes Pro.

NOTE: Using this accessory may have unpredictable results if you are
      already running Studio16 on another screen.
SUNRIZE TOOLS:

NAME: SunRize Out

    See the description of this tool in the B&P Pro manual.

NAME: SunRize Virtual Track

    DESCRIPTION:  The SunRize Virtual Track tool acts as a separate
track in the Bars&Pipes Pro evnironment.  It allows you to record and
playback digital audio via your SunRize card, synchronized to begin at
any specified point in time.

    SPECIAL TYPE: Output.

    USAGE: PipeLine.

    CONTROLS:  Two different setups may appear, depending on whether
the current handler is the AD1012 handler of the AD516 handler.  If
you have both, the window will change its setup when you select a new
handler.

FOR THE AD1012:
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    The string defined by Name: is the full path name to
the sample that is to be recorded or played back.  The default is
"<the Studio16 default path>Untitled".  The Load button to the left
opens up a file requester so that you may find a previously recorded
sample;  the name of the file selected is put into the Name: string.
While recording, if a sample of the same name already exists, that
sample is deleted.

    Directly under the "Load" button is the "Monitor" button.  This
button merely turns on and off monitoring of the input stream.

    Several sliders and the Auto Filter button control the parameters
for recording samples.  The Gain slider adjusts the input gain, and
the Rate and Filter sliders determine the sampling rate and filter
setting.  With Auto Filter on (the default), the Filter automatically
adjusts to a good value based on the rate.  None of these options has
any effect on playback of samples.

    Below the filter setting is the Start time.  This is the time that
the sample will actually start playing or recording.  By default this
time is in music time, but by selecting the SMPTE button to the left
of the start time, the time may be specified in SMPTE format.  Because
of disk access time it is not always possible to start a large number
of samples playing or recording at the same time, so staggering the
start times is recommended when playing more that two samples at a
time.

    The Meters button in the bottom left of the screen is a
convenience provided to open up the Studio16 Meters window within the
Bars&Pipes Pro screen.  This will help you to adjust the input levels
to get maximum response when recording samples.

    The Driver button at the bottom of the window displays the current
SunRize device drive that is used to play back samples.  If you have
more than one SunRize card, clicking on this button will bring up a
scrolling list of all available drivers to choose from.

    To playback a sample using the SunRize Virtual Track Tool, simply
place this tool in a pipeline, type or use the file requester to
assign the name of the sample, optionally modify the start time to
begin playing the sample, and then press start from the Bars&Pipes
Transport Control.  The sample will begin playing at the requested
time (or as close as possible if disk access time is slow) and will
stop when either the sample ends or Stop is pressed in the Transport
Controls.  If the song begins playing after the requested start time,
the sample will be played as if it had started at the appropriate
time.  If the track that the tool is in is muted, the sample will not
play.

    To record a sample using the SunRize Virtual Track tool, set up
the name and start time as for a playback sample, but also set up the
desired rate, filter, and gain settings.  Use of the Monitor and
Meters Window may come in handy to determine the proper settings.
Just as in a regular MIDI track for Bars&Pipes Pro, the track that
contains the SunRize Virtual Track Tool must be in Record mode and the
Record button in the Transport Controls must be set for recording to
take place.  Once the record mode is set, press Start in the Transport
controls and recording will begin at the start time specified in the
tool.  If the song begins after the requested start time, the sample
will not be recorded.  The only way to stop recording is to press Stop
in the Transport Controls.

    The SunRize Virtual Track Tool is sensitive to Control Change 7
(Volume), and if placed in an output pipeline can be used with
MixMaestro.


FOR THE AD516:
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    The two strings defined by "Left:" and "Right:" are the full path
names to the samples that are to be recorded or played back.  The
defaults are "<the Studio16 default path>Untitled_L" and "<the
Studio16 default path>Untitled_R".  The "Load" button to the left of
each string opens up a file requester so that you may find a
previously recorded sample; the name of the file selected is put into
the string immediately to the right of the "Load" button selected.
While recording, if a sample of the same name already exists, that
sample is deleted.

    Directly under the "Load" buttons are two buttons labelled "L" and
"R".  These buttons define which samples of the two listed (Left or
Right) will be recorded to or played back from.  Either one of these
buttons or both may be selected.  If only one sample is being
recorded, it is recorded as a mono track (default pan is centered).
If both are selected the left sample is recorded with pan set full
left and the right sample is recorded with pan set full right.

    Directly under the "L" and "R" buttons is the "Monitor" button.
This button merely turns on and off monitoring of the input stream.

    The "Gain:" and "Rate:" sliders control the parameters for
recording samples.  The Gain slider adjusts the input gain, and the
Rate slider determines the sampling rate.  None of these options has
any effect on playback of samples.

    Below the "Rate:" slider is the Start time.  This is the time that
the sample will actually start playing or recording.  By default this
time is in music time, but by selecting the SMPTE button to the left
of the start time, the time may be specified in SMPTE format.  Because
of disk access time it is not always possible to start a large number
of samples playing or recording at the same time, so staggering the
start times is recommended when playing multiple samples at one time.

    The Meters button in the bottom left of the screen is a
convenience provided to open up the Studio16 Meters window within the
Bars&Pipes Pro screen.  This will help you to adjust the input levels
to get maximum response when recording samples.

    The Driver button at the bottom of the window displays the current
SunRize device drive that is used to play back samples.  If you have
more than one SunRize card, clicking on this button will bring up a
scrolling list of all available drivers to choose from.

    To playback a sample using the SunRize Virtual Track Tool, simply
place this tool in a pipeline, type or use the file requester to
assign the name of the sample, optionally modify the start time to
begin playing the sample, and then press start from the Bars&Pipes
Transport Control.  The sample will begin playing at the requested
time (or as close as possible if disk access time is slow) and will
stop when either the sample ends or Stop is pressed in the Transport
Controls.  If the song begins playing after the requested start time,
the sample will not be played as if it started at the appropriate
time.  If the track that the tool is in is muted, the sample will not
play.

    To record a sample using the SunRize Virtual Track tool, set up
the name and start time as for a playback sample, but also set up the
desired rate and gain settings.  Use of the Monitor and Meters Window
may come in handy to determine the proper settings.  Just as in a
regular MIDI track for Bars&Pipes Pro, the track that contains the
SunRize Virtual Track Tool must be in Record mode and the Record
button in the Transport Controls must be set for recording to take
place.  Once the record mode is set, press Start in the Transport
controls and recording will begin at the start time specified in the
tool.  If the song begins after the requested start time, the sample
will not be recorded.  The only way to stop recording is to press Stop
in the Transport Controls.

    The SunRize Virtual Track Tool is sensitive to Control Change 7
(Volume) to determine the volume of both samples.  Panning via Control
Change 10 is also supported.  For samples recorded Mono panning works
normally, but for stereo samples (two samples playing simultaneously),
panning reacts as if the Right sample is supposed to be full right and
the Left sample is supposed to be full left.  Panning to the right
will move the Left sampleto the right; panning to th left will move
the Right sample to the left.  If placed in an output pipeline
MixMaestro can be used to control both volume and panning.




NOTE:  Disk access time is a limiting factor in playing back and
recording samples.  Many samples playing at once and/or slow hard
drives can cause samples to get out of sync with Bars&Pipes Pro.  In
many cases you may be able to get around these problems by optimizing
our buffer sizes in the Master Preferences or moving critical samples
to RAM:.  In other cases the only solution may be to stagger your
samples so that fewer are playing at the same time.