Developers guide

Introduction
Ensoniq MIDI-Disk Tools for Windows is a full-featured sample editor and
remote parameter editor for the Ensoniq line of samplers. It’s purpose is to
Replace the 22-character display on the EPS/ASR and provide a more
versatile user-interface with a computer screen
To assist the EPS/ASR with many tools programming and editing to
make the complex job of working with the EPS/ASR easier, and
Provide a computer link to the EPS/ASR that will prove truly indis-
pensable to the function and operation of the EPS/ASR
Hopefully, you are excited to install the software and see how it works, and
work with it. Before we dig in, here’s some features of the program:
1. The ability to view and edit sound parameters (instrument-level, layer-
level, wavesample-level, envelope-level, sample-level, effect-level,
sequence- and track-level for the instruments in the EPS/ASR.
2. Global Parameter viewing and editing.
3. Effect view and editing.
4. Sequence and track viewing and editing.
5. A handy MIDI keyboard to remotely play the EPS/ASR keyboard from
the computer.
6. Many programming short cuts.
7. Built-in MIDI Monitor with Sys-Ex programming
8. Remote Load File via MIDI
9. Naming Wizard
If you are a registered owner, you are qualied for free updates for the life of
the program, which will be sent to you automatically from Rubber Chicken
Software Co. There are many things we intend to add to this program to make
it more versatile for you to use. New versions are never far away!
FILE IMAGE
A le saved to your hard drive that stores all the parameters of an Instrument.
See Disk File.
GIEBLER FILE FORMAT
This is a PC le format standard introduced by Giebler Enterprises in their
Disk Manager series. It is essentially the binary data of an Ensoniq le, with
Hex200 header. Using these, you can manipulate Ensoniq les on a PC.
INSTRUMENT
A unit on the EPS/ASR that contains up to 8 Layers and up to 127 wavesa-
mples.
JEFFERY RICHTER
The original author of EPS SENSE. He now is famous with Microsoft, writing
two books (Advanced Windows and A Windows 95 Developers Guide). He
also consults at a number of big name companies.
LAYER
A unit on the EPS/ASR that holds wavesamples across one keymap of the
keyboard. You can have up to 8 layers in an INSTRUMENT.
PATCH SELECT
A Ensoniq innovation that selects a pre-programmed group of layers from a
pair of momentary onboard buttons.
RUBBER CHICKEN SOFTWARE CO.
The makers, developers, sole distributors or Ensoniq MIDI-Disk Tools for
Windows. They also make samples for the EPS/ASR series, and other items,
specically for Ensoniq samplers.
SAMPLER NAME
This area tells you what kind of sampler the computer is expecting. Once you
read the EPS/ASR through MIDI, the computer nds out for itself and changes
this automatically.
SYS-EX (or, more properly, System Exclusive)
A MIDI standard that communicate specic messages to specic instruments.
Ensoniq MIDI-Disk Tools uses this to changes just about any parameter in the
EPS/ASR.
TOOLBAR LIGHTS
These lights tell you (from the left) if the MIDI is turned on so the computer can
receive MIDI signals, if MIDI is coming into the computer, and if MIDI is trans-
mitting out of the computer.
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