Developers guide

Main Screen
This is the basic and rst
screen of the program The
upper Toolbar, Status indica-
tor, menu options, and MIDI
lights are available wherever
you are in the program. The
Instrument Controls are
jumping-off points for the
rest of the program.
Ensoniq MIDI-Disk Tools
for Windows shows the
same hierarchy as the EPS/ASR does: There are 3 Envelopes per WaveSample;
there are up to 127 Wavesamples that reside in Layers; in which there are up
to 8 Layers, and 1 Effect, in a master unit, call an Instrument.
Tool Bar Buttons
READ Parameters
Cluck on READ ALL Command Button to start the process of reading
everything that is in the EPS/ASR through MIDI or by loading in a pre-
loaded Disk File, or the Single button to read only selected instruments. Be
prepared - for lots of wavesamples, this can take a while! For all functions,
watch the upper right of the ToolBar - it will show you the status of what’s
happening. When you read all the parameters, it shows your progress.
Load File
By clucking on this, you can remotely load a le into the EPS/ASR’s RAM.
Load Disk File
By clucking on this, you can select a Disk File you load.
Read Global Parameters
Displays the Global Screen.
MIDI Keyboard
Displays the MIDI Keyboard. This will stay on top of your screen until closed.
Sequencer Controls
Control displays the Sequencer Control Board. Track displays the Sequenc-
er Track Screen.
Personal Support
At Rubber Chicken we pride ourselves for the personal support we can give,
because we believe the only important problem to you is your own problem!
But before you call/write in for support, please read below:
1) If you downloaded our les from the Internet, we hope you read all the
directions on the Web Page, concerning which les to download for what
system, etc. There is the main setup program (mtv**.exe), the Acces-
sories le, and the new revision les (mtv**r**.exe). Note: The Accessory
le needs to be run rst!
2) Please check the size of the les against what the Web page says they
should be. That should tell you if there was a corruption.
3) Our latest Revision has gone through pretty extensive tests, and we are
more condent on this revision that it can run on most persons machines
without some error. However, since we do post frequent revisions, we’d
like to here if an occasional bug got slipped in.
4) We are interested in seeing how the program works with MIDI Commu-
nication with various MIDI interfaces. Some MIDI Drivers don’t work as
they should. The commands Tools uses go far beyond what other MIDI
programs (such as Cakewalk, Cubase, etc.) do; it uses heavy system-
exclusive code, whereas standard programs only deal with note data and
controller data (easy stuff). If you have MIDI problems, it is most likely
due to a older driver - these problems can be remedied by obtaining the
latest driver from your MIDI interface manufacturer.
5) We do ask you of some things if you do need to call/write for support.
a) Please describe the problem specically (what screens come up, what
do they say VERBATIM, any repeatable steps we can describe so we
can duplicate the error here). If you say “it doesn’t work”, we’re sorry, that
just isn’t enough for us to go on. IT IS VITAL THAT WE CAN REPLICATE
THE ERROR. We need to know what is the difference in your PC that is
causing the conict.
b) It is VERY HELPFUL, in case of errors in reading or writing parameters
to Disk Files, to send us the File Image le that your are reading/writing.
Zip the le up using WinZip or related program (it will compress to a very
small size) and attach it in an e-mail message to us. These are very help-
ful in determining what the problem is.
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