PRESET LIST CREATOR INSTRUCTIONS This program was written by Noyce of Phantastix Oftware Crew after several hateful encounters with the previous preset list editors To contact me regarding ideas to improve the program, or if you find a bug (I'm sure it's not free of it since it's only a couple of weeks old), then contact PXO at the following address: Phantastix Oftware Crew Skylvagen 5 S-175 43 Jarfalla SWEDEN Helpful Hints: When you add a disk or convert a disk with iff-samples, all directories, info and the hateful '.fastdir' files are omitted. There are also many shortcuts to the menu functions if you use the right Amiga button and a key. The '<--' shows wich instrument is marked. Some functions can be canceled by pressing the 'ALT' key. The small figures under the string-gadgets are used to move the wiew position of the preset-list. Starting from the upp- er leftmost corner of the eight gadgets, they do this: Up 5 instr Up 24 instr (one page) Up 100 instr Up to start of list The lower gadgets have the same functions but go downwards. (1) THE PROJECT MENU Load Simply loads the preset list which is specified in the PLST NAME gadget. The previous list will be destroyed. The preset list can have any name within the specified filename length. Join Joins the preset list in memory with the preset list file named in PLST NAME. No checks are made to avoid duplicates. Display Displays the preset-list from the last position you were at. Write Saves preset list to the name in PLST NAME. New Clears the preset list in memory, there is no way to get it back Quit Leaves the Preset List Creator, and the list in memory will be lost (2) THE EDIT MENU Add This entry has a sub-menu which allows the user to add either a whole disk with samples or only a single sound which is specified in the INSTRUMENT, DISK, LENGTH, REPEAT and REPLEN gadgets. The size of the sample is limited to 131070 bytes, since that is the limit of the sample length in the DocSoundtracker 2.2 The previous limitations of sample length has been up to the program that creates the preset-list. The disk-name gadget defines the name of the sample-disk, and even here the restriction from previous preset-list editors has been removed. The disk-name can be anything that follows the rules of AmigaDos and is 6 (six) letters long including the colon (':'). The DocST 2.2 accepts this as well as the standard ST-XX disk-names. The REPEAT value is bounded within the limits of 0 to 65535, and this is the value that decides the start of the loop. And finally the REPLEN gadget, this decides the length of the loop, this can be up to 131070 bytes. If no loop is desired, the values 0 for REPEAT and 2 for REPLEN should be entered. (This is also the default value.) NOTE! The Add function doesn't check for duplicates in the preset list. Sub This function removes samples from the preset list, either you specify the disk and choose the Sub Disk function or you use the Sub Instr function after entering the instrument name and disk name. The preset list editor will ask if you want to start removing instruments form the mark. The mark is located at the instr- ument that was found when the find fuction was last used. Replace This function should be used if you already have a sound in the preset list that doesn't have a loop, and you want to assign a loop to it. First enter the instrument and disk name. Then use the Find function (se 2.4) to see if the instrument exists in the list. If it does exist, enter the correct length and the repeat values in the appropriate gadgets and use the Replace function. Your instrument now has the new repeat points. Be sure to use the find function before you use replace since it removes the instrument which is marked in the list. Find You use this function to find a instrument in the preset list. To use it, enter the name and disk and then use the Find function. If you want to use the wildcard option, then enter the first letters you want to look for followed by an asterisc (*) in INSTRUMENT and the disk in DISK NAME. After that, use the Find First option and then for each new search the Find Next command. The numbers displayed after the Instrument are the following: The first is the length of the sample in bytes. The second the repeat start value. And the last one is the repeat length. Trace Displays the preset list from the instrument that was last found (the marked instrument). Sort This function will sort the preset list either regarding the disk name or not. If you use the Sort On Disk function, all ST-01: samples will appear first in alphabetical order (or whatever disk comes first in the ascii table). At this stage the sort routine is pretty slow but it will soon be changed, so watch out for upgrades. THE CONVERT MENU Iff This unique function lets you convert iff samples (or whole disks with iff-sounds) to raw data. It checks out if the sound is looped or not and gives you the right numbers to enter in the preset list. If a sound on the disk is not an Iff-file it will be ignored. The program reads the file, checks repeat points and saves back the raw data file to disk so be sure to have a backup of your disk if you want to keep the looped iff-sounds. If you wish, the program adds the instruments automatically to the preset list, and if you want to pause the display of a sample, just hold down the LEFT mouse button and the program will wait until you let go of it. When only one sample is to be converted, enter the name in the INSTRUMENT gadget and disk in DISK NAME, and use the Iff Instr function. 16 bit Yet another feature which you won't find in any other preset- list editor. This feature lets you convert 16-bit samples to 8-bit Amiga samples. It works in the same manner as the Iff-conversion, but as you understand, only raw-format samples can be con- verted and the old samples will be overwritten. Quick overview: PROJECT Load - Loads the preset list Join - Joins two preset lists Display - Shows the preset list Write - Saves preset list New - Clears preset list Quit - Leaves the program EDIT Add - Adds instruments to preset list Sub - Subs instruments from preset list Replace - Substitutes the instruments parameter with those entered Find - Looks up the specified file and shows instrument data Trace - Shows the list, starting at mark Sort - Sorts the preset list CONVERT Iff - Converts iff-files to raw data 16 bit - Converts 16-bit sounds to 8-bit Noyce of PXO crew 890328