================================================================================ K1-II Librarian Written in 1990/91 by Andreas Jung Klosterstrasse 21 D-6602 Dudweiler Federal Republic of Germany All rights reserved ! ================================================================================ This program ist public domain and may be distributed for noncommerical use. Any commercial use and distribution requieres the written permission of the author. The distribution of this program in a PD-library is only allowed if the price of the disk does not exceed the costs of disk, package and mailing. Suggestions, bug-reports and donations are always welcome. OVERVIEW: -------- The K1-Librarian is a program for use with the Kawai K1-II synthesizer via MIDI. The current version includes a bankloader for single- and multi-patches, a multipatch-editor and support for the effect-session. REQUIERMENTS: ------------- First you need a K1-II synthesizer and a MIDI-interface connected with your Amiga. I do not know if my program works with the older K1 models; let me know ! It should work with any amiga with Kickstart Version 1.2 or higher. K1-Librarian was developped under Kickstart 1.3 with Aztec-C 5.0 and was successfully tested under Kickstart 2.0 The K1-Librarian should run on any Amiga with at least 512 KB. Ensure that the follwing files are in right directories: LIBS:arp.library LIBS:req.library LIBS:midi.library LIBS:diskfont.library LIBS:icon.library L:ram-handler L:port-handler DEVS:parallel-device DEVS:serial.device CREDITS: -------- First I want to thank Michael Balzer, the author of the K1-Editor published on AmigaLibDisk 332 (by Fred Fish). The sources of his editor were very helpful during the development of this program. He also send me the documentation of the req.library. Also thanks to Colin Fox of Pyramid Designs and Bruce Bawson of CygnusSoft Software for the fine req.library and to people of Pregnant Badger Music which wrote the midi.library. Thanks to Fred Fish for his engagement in Amiga-PD. INSTALLATION: ------------- First copy the files in the drawer LIBS to your work-disk. Ensure that all the files above are in right drawer. Now make new drawer called KAWAI on your (hard)disk and make a assign to it: ASSIGN KAWAI: KAWAI Next you should copy the drawers SOUNDS, BANKS, DUMP and MULTI to KAWAI: I should be enough. The K1-Librarian can be started either from the CLI or from the workbench. The following CLI options are recognized: 'K1 s' - open a custom screen 'K1 l' - open a interlaced custom screen 'K1 g' - get single- and multi-patch dump Workbench support: The following tool-types are recognized: SCREEN=ON/OFF LACE=ON/OFF GETDUMP=ON/OFF MULTIDIR=directoryname BANKDIR=directoryname DUMPDIR=directoryname SOUNDDIR=directoryname K1-Librarian will open an interlace screen if it is run on a ntsc amiga. This is nessecary because the program needs a lot of space to display the synthesizer informations. GETTING STARTED: ---------------- When you run K1-Librarian, it will open a window with a field of 4 columns and 16 rows. This field represents the 64 single patches of the K1-II. In the lower half of the window there is the control with the following options: Load Bank 1/2: Load a file with a soundbank (32 single patches) Save Bank 1/2: Save current bank from Amiga to disk Get Bank 1/2: Get bankdump from K1 Send Bank 1/2: Send currrent bank to K1 Save Sounds 1/2: Save the sounds of the current bank to disk. They will be put in the directory KAWAI:SOUNDS Load/Send as 1/2: A bankfile is directly send from disk to K1 without changing the current banks of the K1-Librarian. About: This option will open a requester with informations about my program. Iconifiy: If the Librarian is run on the workbench screen, the window will be iconified when you select this option. The window can be resized by activating the resized window and pressing the right mousebutton. This option is not available on a custom screen. 1-16: Select a program of the effect session (only K1-II) The field MULTI in the right upper corner switches to the multi-patch section. Here we have a field for the 32 multi-patches. Following options are available: Load Multi: Load multi-patch from disk Save Multi: Save multi-patch to disk Get Multi: Get multi-patch from K1 Send Multi: Send multi-ptach to K1 Load Dump: A dump consists of two single-patches banks and one multi-patch-bank. Save Dump: Save dump to disk Get Dump: Get complete dump from K1 Send Dump: Send current Librarian banks as dump to K1 Colours: Opens a colour requester to change the screen colours. The colours are saved to disk. This option is only available on a custom screen Init all: All single- and multi-patches will be reseted to the factory patches 'Single K-1' and 'Multi-K1' The proportional gadget on the right side changes the master volume of the K1. USE OF MOUSE: ------------- Move the mousepointer to field with a singl- or multi-patch. Now press the right mouse button. The current patch will be transmitted to the K1. When you press the left button over a single-patch, a small requester is open with the possiblity to load a new single-patch or to save the current patch to disk. If the mousepointer stand over a multi-patch and you press the left button, you switch to the multi-patch editor. MULTI-PATCH EDITOR: ------------------- The multi-patch editor gives you the abelity to edit the multi-patches. Please refer to your K1 handbook for detailed informations. All parameters can be changed by clicking in the requiered field. Either the field contents will change or a window with a proportional gadget will appear. In this case you can leave this window by pressing the right(!) button. The proportional gadget on the right side will change main volume of the current patch. You can leave the editor by clicking in the 'OK' field. The current parameters are immediately send to the K1. Clicking to the 'Chancel' field will have the effect that all changes are ignored and the old parameters are restored. The 'Print' option will print the parameter table to you printer. In this version I use the PAR:-device. Perhaps I will change it to PRT:-device for better printer support. The current print routine should work on any NEC compatible 24 dot matrix printer. Last but not least, the 'Rename' option allows you to change the name of the selected multi-patch. BUGS ---- There may be problems when running K1-Librarian and other midi software, especially when you are trying to interchange SysEx-Data from or to K1. When you request a single- or multi-patch dump, the Librarian will if a K1 is connected to the system. But there seems to be a problem in the K1Check-routine. Sometimes the Librarian does not recognize a connected K1 and sends an error message. Perhaps there may be other smaller bugs. Please let me know if you think that you should found one. ******************************************************************************** That enough, I am too tired and sooooooooooooooooo lazy to write more. And, excuse my horrible english.