Developers guide

Instrument/Layer Screen
This is where you can edit
Instrument, Layer, and Ef-
fect Parameters, as well as
control your Patch selects,
Pitch Tables, and Layer
control.
Instrument Name
Place the Text bar over the Name, type in Name, Hit Enter, program will take rst
fourteen characters and rename the Instrument
Instrument Block Size
Read-Only - shows the block size of the selected Instrument
Key Range
Cluck on each Command arrow and you will see the list of key ranges. Cluck
on the appropriate one.
Transpose
Cluck on the arrow, and drag it to the appropriate location. NOTE: Ensoniq
MIDI-Disk Tools can transpose the EPS/ASR more vastly and easily than you
can using the built-in interface.
Available Layers/Patch Selects
Cluck on the “OO”, “OX”, etc. and you will change the appropriate patch
select. Cluck right on top of the layer number in Patch Select Boxes and it will
toggle between - and the Layer number.
MIDI Status
Cluck on Command arrow and you will see your list of choices.
Pressure Mode
Cluck on Command arrow and you will see your list of choices.
MIDI Out Channel and Program Number
Place the Text bar over the display box, type number, hit Enter
Buttons for Selecting Layers
Cluck on button to switch the lower panel to display the proper Layer Screen.
Only the Layers that are in the current Patch Select may be selected.
Troubleshooting
PROBLEM: My EPS/ASR doesn’t respond at all when I cluck ALL or Single - it
doesn’t blink or do anything.
SOLUTIONS: There could be several problems. Try any of these solutions:
- Check if your MIDI SYS-EX=OFF on your EPS/ASR (available via CMD-
SYSTEM/MIDI). If it is OFF, turn it ON.
- Make sure your MIDI Drivers, as selected in Setup, are the correct ones.
- Check your physical MIDI connections. You must have a MIDI Loop run-
ning - the MIDI OUT of the computer must result into the MIDI IN of the
EPS/ASR; and the MIDI OUT of the EPS/ASR must result into the MIDI IN
of the computer.
- Use the MIDITester (under the menu option MIDI) to check your MIDI
connections. YOU MUST HAVE THE RESULTS OF THESE BEFORE YOU
CALL IN FOR SUPPORT.
- Exit the program, exit Windows to reset the driver, restart Windows, restart
the program, and try it again.
- It is possible that you do not have the latest drivers for your MIDI interface.
Many less expensive MIDI interfaces do not support system-exclusive calls
properly, and many mainstream MIDI interfaces did not support them until
later revisions of their driver. Please contact your MIDI interface manufac-
turer for the availability of their latest drivers. If that doesn’t work, call us
- you will need to have the date and the version numbers of your MIDI
interface ready. For Windows95, these are available in the Control Pane/
System/Device Manager.
PROBLEM: When I cluck on ALL or Single in the Main Page, it doesn’t get
past the Reading Instrument 1 Parameters prompt. Either that or it only gets to
Effect 1, and then times out.
or, PROBLEM: Often, I get errors when I do a MIDI Read of my EPS/ASR.
SOLUTIONS: There could be several problems. Try any of these solutions:
- Go into Preferences and increase the Single HS Delay by 1 or 2, or the
Time Out Length parameter by several seconds. Reading at too quick a
delay can introduced errors into the File Image le produced.
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