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D - 1 0 C O N T R O L version 1.1 by Harry Mark REFERENCE MANUAL (c) 1990 MIDIEVAL SOFTWARE P.O. Box 902 North Bay, Ontario CANADA P1B 8K1 i DISCLAIMER Midieval Software hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this software, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Midieval Software will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damges due to loss of data or any other reason, even if Midieval Software or an agent of Midieval Software has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall Midieval Software's liability for any damages arising out of the use of or inability to use this software exceed the price paid for the license to use this software, regardless of the form of the claim. The person using this software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the software. LICENSE D-10 Control is distributed as User Supported software. Unregistered users of D-10 Control are granted a license to use this software for 14 days for evaluation purposes. After this period has expired and the user decides to continue using it, the user must register the copy. The unregistered evaluation package may be given to others to try out under the following conditions: 1. None of the files in this package may be modified or removed. This package must be given whole and unaltered. 2. No charge or payment may be levied. Clubs and user groups may charge a nominal fee not exceeding $8 US for expenses and handling while distributing D-10 Control. When you register, you will receive a postcard from Canada, a registration number and instructions as to how to store it on your copy. This will allow you to use all of the features of the program and avoid messages about registration. You will also receive notices of updates and technical support. If you require technical support, have comments or suggestions, send your correspondence to the order form address or if you have a modem, leave the message at 'Midnight MIDI BBS'(tm) at (613)747-1718 to 'Harry Mark' on FIDO-Net's MIDI-Net conference, or send NetMail to address 1:163/230.0. A registered copy of D-10 Control must be treated just like a book; the same registered copy may only be used on one computer at the same time. ii Registration just costs US$33/CDN$38. The cost of a license plus disk plus printed documentation is $40 US/$46 CDN (Ontario residents must add 8% sales tax if ordering reg+disk+docs). To register, send the order form (or reproduction) with the check or money order (payable to Midieval Software). For fastest processing possible, please send a money order. Your registration helps Midieval Software create more high quality software at reasonable prices. Differences between the evaluation and registered versions The information contained in this manual is applicable to the registered version. By registering, you may use of all the features described. The evaluation version has several differences: 1. The keyboard functions are restricted. - The note keys are the same - Only MONO mode is supported - Only MIDI channels 1, 2 and 3 are allowed - SPACE is used to clear notes on the current channel - All other key functions are disabled 2. The load and save features of the FILE page are disabled. 3. The information in the CONFIG page cannot be saved. The configuration file 'D10CTL.CFG' cannot be created. 4. Registration messages appear throughout the program. iii D-10 CONTROL 1.1 -------------------------- Midieval Software P.O. Box 902 North Bay, Ontario CANADA P1B 8K1 -------------------------- Please check one of the following: [ ] Registration ($33 US/$38 CDN) [ ] Registraton + Disk + Printed Documentation ($40 US/$46 CDN) Ontario Residents add 8% sales tax (Total Cost $49.68 CDN) Diskette type (please check one): [ ] 5.25" [ ] 3.5" NAME: ____________________________________________________________ ADDRESS: ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ PHONE: _________________________________ Where did you get your copy of D-10 Control? ___________________________________________________ Comments/Suggestions _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Thank you for registering. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction......................1 2. System Requirements...............1 3. Installing D-10 Control...........1 4. Running D-10 Control..............2 5. Control Panel.....................2 6. Select Tone.......................4 7. Tone Editor.......................5 Load..............................5 Save..............................5 Compare...........................5 7.1 Editing the tone..............6 Selecting a PCM wave..........7 8. Control Panel Options.............8 8.1 File..........................8 Loading a Sound File..........9 Saving a Sound File...........9 File Messages and Errors.....10 8.2 Timbre Map...................10 8.3 Configuration................11 8.4 Info.........................12 8.5 Quit.........................12 9. Playing notes from the PC........12 10. D10TOMID conversion utility.....13 D-10 Control, D10TOMID and this manual are Copyright (c) 1990 by MIDIEVAL SOFTWARE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Some company and product names contained in this document are trademarks of various companies. 1. INTRODUCTION D-10 Control is a MIDI application that allows you to control various aspects of the Roland D-10, D-110, D-20, and D-5 synthesizers. High resolution EGA graphics and a mouse are used for fully graphical editing of all aspects of the multi-timbral mode of these synthesizers; the computer becomes an extension of your synth. You will find that this program is a fun way to experiment and learn more about your synthesizer, without the numerous cumbersome key presses that would be required on the synth itself. D-10 Control allows you to edit volumes, panpots (stereo direction), reverb, timbre and tone parameters easily and quickly. You can even play notes from the PC keyboard to hear the results. Tone, timbre and patch information can be stored on disk to be retrieved and loaded back into the synthesizer later. You can tailor the colours and other defaults to your liking and they will be automatically used by the program. 2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS D-10 Control requires an IBM-PC compatible with at least 256K of free memory running under MS-DOS with: 1) a Roland D-10, D-110, D-20 or D-5 synthesizer 2) a MPU compatible MIDI interface 3) an EGA capable video card (with at least 256K memory) and monitor 4) a Microsoft compatible mouse The mouse driver (usually called MOUSE.COM or MOUSE.SYS) must be installed before the program will run. Refer to your mouse documentation for information. 3. INSTALLING D-10 CONTROL The D-10 Control package contains the following files: 1) 'D10CTL.EXE' The program 2) 'D10TOMID.EXE' MIDI File conversion utility 3) 'D10CTL.ORD' Order form 4) 'D10CTL.DOC' This document 5) 'READDOC.COM' Reading program for D10CTL.DOC 6) 'README.COM' General info There are no special installation instructions; just COPY these files to any directory you wish and run D-10 Control from this directory. 1 If you have a printer, enter "COPY D10CTL.DOC PRN:" to print this manual. 4. RUNNING D-10 CONTROL If necessary, go to the directory where the program resides (using the command CD followed by the directory name). Type 'D10CTL' at the MS-DOS prompt and press RETURN. The message 'Looking for configuration file...' should appear while the computer looks for the program configuration file 'D10CTL.CFG' in the current directory. If it finds the file and the file is valid, it will read the defaults from the file. The title page will appear. At this point the program will be requesting information from the synthesizer through MIDI. If the synthesizer does not respond with the information within a fixed period of time: You will be given three choices: 1) Retry 2) Config 3) Quit. Select 'Config' if you are using this program for the first time. It will take you to the Configuration page where you can set the program defaults. Chances are that your synth's MIDI exclusive unit number is different than the program's default 17. To check the synth's setting, press 'MIDI' on the synth, then 'DISPLAY down' until this parameter is shown in the synth's window. Adjust the program's exclusive unit setting by pressing a mouse button on the '<' or '>' of the top rectangle until it matches. Click on ACCEPT to continue. The program will try again. If the synth still does not respond, make sure that the synth is turned on and connected to the properly installed MIDI interface with the proper cables. If the synth is not in its 'Multi-Timbral' mode (i.e. in its 'Performance' mode), a message will appear. Press the 'Multi Timbral' button on the synth then press a mouse button to continue. You must change the mode to continue; this program was designed for the multi-timbral mode only. Do not change the mode or perform any editing on the synth while the program is running, since this may cause some of the displayed information to be inaccurate. 5. CONTROL PANEL This is the core page of the program. At the top are several options to be discussed later. Underneath are the volume and panpot sliders. There are ten for volume; the first is the 2 master volume, the next eight correspond to the eight 'Parts' (consult synth manual for description) and one for the rhythm section. There are eight sections of information consisting of the tone name (which is highlighted) and the timbre parameters for the Part. Note that the information for the Parts are in a 'temporary' area; any changes here are lost when the synth is turned off or the mode switched. The timbres and tones in these areas can be copied to or from the synth's more permanent memory (this memory is retained even when power is off) or saved to disk files (see section 8.1). Reverb parameters and master tune appear at the bottom. For D-5 users, the reverb parameters will not have any affect. In each timbre section, there is a slider at the bottom (looks like: <[ | ]>). This is where you change the value of a parameter with the mouse. To the right of it is the value of the current parameter. Only one parameter can be modified at a time. To change the current timbre parameter, press a mouse button on the parameter's name (if it is not already highlighted). The new parameter will be highlighted. There are three ways of changing the value with the sliders: 1) decrement the current value by positioning the mouse pointer at the '<' and holding a mouse button down or by clicking (press then quickly release a mouse button). The repeat speed parameter in the Configuration page determines how fast the value will change if you hold the button down. 2) increment the current value by positioning the cursor at the '>' and holding a mouse button down or clicking. 3) select a value directly by pressing the mouse button anywhere inside the rectangle between the '<' and '>'. This will select a value which is proportional to the range of the parameter. e.g. clicking in the middle will move the slider to the middle of the parameter's range. You can 'drag' the value by moving the slider while the button is held down. If you play some notes on the synthesizer directly or from the PC keyboard while values are being changed, you can hear the changes taking effect. For example, change the key offset while playing some notes. The following keys will send note messages to the synth: 2 3 5 6 7 9 0 = Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ] Q is middle C. For keyboard features see section 9. 3 NOTE: To play notes for a specific Part, the MIDI channel must match that of the Part. To examine the current settings, press MIDI then DISPLAY UP to check the channel settings. For example, if MIDI PART1 CH=3, then Part 1 will sound when you play a note on MIDI channel 3. Another way to check is to play some notes and watch the NUMBER lights that turn on when the key is held down; they will tell you which Part is responding. For information on how to change the MIDI channel for the PC keyboard see section 9. If the Part number (1 through 8) is clicked on, it will toggle between being highlighted and not. If a group of numbers is highlighted, a change in parameter or value in a member will also affect the others in the group. This allows you edit several timbres simultaneously. At the bottom are sliders for reverb parameters and master tune. Master Tune fine tunes the instrument. To change the kind of Reverb, click a mouse button at the '<' or '>' to cycle through the choices. In this case (and a few others), holding down a button will not cycle through the choices; you must click several times to do so. To edit or change the tone for a specific Part, click on the name of the tone. This will bring up another page: 6. SELECT TONE You can select any of the tones stored in the synth, of which there are 256 in total. Only 128 will be displayed at a time. To alternate between the pages of 128 tones, click on PAGE. The tones stored in the synth are divided into 4 banks, A, B, I, and R (the percussion bank). I is where user tones can be stored (discussed later in SAVE in next section). On the top line, the name of the tone and the current Part is displayed at the top. To select a tone, simply click on it; it will automatically be highlighted and this tone will be copied to the Part. The changes are instant. NOTE: It is not necessary to select a tone in this page. To edit the tone, click on EDIT. This will bring up the tone editor. To return to the control panel, click on ACCEPT or click on the same tone twice. 4 7. TONE EDITOR This is where most of the fun will take place! Here you can see what parameters make up the tone and change them with ease. If the description sounds too complicated, don't worry; once you use it, you will find that it is quite easy and powerful to use. Tones are the sounds the synth produces. A tone is made up of one through four partials. Though the tone editor will display four partials, you can mute them to effectively have less than four. Each partial is either a P or S type of wave. P is a PCM, or digitally recorded wave and S is an analog wave. Which type a partial is is determined by the 'structure' used to combine each pair of partials. On the top line, there are several options plus the current Part number. You can select one of these options by clicking on the word: LOAD - To select a tone from the synth's memory to edit (same as the SELECT TONE page). Any changes to the tone will not affect the 'original' in the synth's non-temporary memory. SAVE - To save the tone from this edit page into the synth's user tone memory (Bank 'I'). There are 64 slots, 'i01' through 'i64', where the tone can be stored. The user slots are listed on the left side of the page along with the name of the tone currently stored in the slot and the number of timbres and patches (patches occur only in the Performance mode) that reference the tone. If the program has not read this reference information since the program was run, it will read it now before going to this WRITE SELECT page. There will be a short delay as this information is being read and organized. If you click on a slot, the slot will be highlighted and the corresponding list of timbres and patches that reference the tone is shown on the right half of the page. This is to help you decide which slot to use and which timbres/patches would be affected. Clicking on a the slot alone will not save the tone. Only when a slot is selected and the option WRITE is clicked on will this occur. When you write into a slot, all the timbres and patches that reference the previous one will now use this tone. (The tones that timbres reference can be changed in the TIMBRE MAP page discussed in section 8.2). The status of the save will be displayed briefly in the upper left corner. If you decide not to save, simply click on ABORT. COMPARE - This will alternate between the current tone and the original (the tone before editing; it can also be changed) for 5 comparison purposes. The word COMPARE will be highlighted if the 'original' is the current tone. PANEL - Returns you to the first page, the control panel. 7.1 EDITING THE TONE The edit page has several graphic elements (starting from the top down): 1- the name of the tone is shown highlighted in the upper left corner. To change the name, click inside the rectangle then enter the new name through the keyboard. You can BACKSPACE to erase the last character. There will be a beep once you reach the maximum number of characters allowed. Press RETURN when you are finished. 2- the 'structures' of both partial pairs are displayed below the tone name. The top structure is the one used for partials 1 and 2; the other one is used for partials 3 and 4. To change a structure, click on it and a selection of all thirteen partials will appear; click on one to select it. 3- the envelope mode appears beneath the structures. Click on the text to toggle between 'Normal' and 'No sustain' mode. 4- to the right are several parameters listed with values beside them. They are categorized by type. These values belong to the partial whose number is highlighted (just below the TVF envelopes). To change the partial whose parameters are seen here, simply click on the number of the partial and it will be highlighted. 5- the current edit parameter is shown with its numeric range underneath. Beside are the options [RND] and [ALT]. [RND] allows you to select random values, [ALT] alternates between the previous and current value. 6- Beside are four sliders, which operate in the same fashion as described before. The numbers 1 through 4 are the partial for whom the slider changes the value of its parameter. By clicking on these numbers, they will be highlighted (click again to undo it). When more than one partial is highlighted and the value for one of these partials is changed, the rest will be changed to the same value. This allows simultaneous editing of several partials. 7- Below are several envelopes which graphically describe the PITCH, TVA (Time Variant Amplitude) and TVF (Time Variant Frequency) envelopes for each partial. The envelopes are defined by the envelope parameters listed above them. These envelopes are affected only by changes in related parameters; button 6 presses at the envelopes will not do anything. The dashed vertical line represents the key off point for the envelope (ie. the time when you release a key). NOTE: not every partial will have a TVF envelope because this is related to whether the partial is a square/sawtooth wave or a PCM wave. For this same reason, the TVF parameters may or may not be listed for a given partial. 8- There are more parameters and values for each partial below. If you click on the partial number, you change which partial has their parameter values shown at the upper right. If you click in the empty space beside the number, you can mute/unmute the partial. If muted, the word MUTED will appear. 9- The wave name is shown below the partial number. Depending on the structure being used, the wave is either SQUARE/SAWTOOTH or a PCM wave. If an 'S' appears in the corresponding structure, the wave is a synthesized wave (ie SQUARE/SAWTOOTH); a 'P' means that the wave is a PCM wave and the wave name appears. If you click here, if the wave is 'S' type, the wave will toggle between SQUARE and SAWTOOTH. Otherwise, another page will appear where you can select the PCM wave from 256 preset waves (only 128 will appear at a time). SELECTING A PCM WAVE A list of PCM waves will appear with the current wave shown in the upper left corner with its bank and number. To select one, just click on the name; it will be highlighted. The options which appear at the bottom are: PARTIAL # - You can change which partial you are selecting a wave for. If the partial is not a PCM wave, its # will not appear. ORDER - Changes the list order from the synth's internal order to alphabetic order and vice versa. ALT - Alternates between the current and previous selection. PAGE - Displays the other 128 waves. If you click on a wave twice in a row, you will return to the edit page. To edit a parameter, click on the name or value of the parameter. This will make it the current edit parameter, which the sliders can alter. You can now edit this parameter for any of the four partials in the manner described in points 5 & 6. The values will instantly change and be updated on the page. 7 8. CONTROL PANEL OPTIONS Now, back to the options at the top line of CONTROL PANEL. Click on the word for the following features: 8.1 FILE This page allows several sections of the synth's memory to be saved onto the hard disk or floppy and retrieved later. The page contains two columns of check boxes which correspond to different sections of the synth's memory that can be saved. The leftmost one (with letter 'L' at the top) displays the sections that a sound file contains (if you click on a sound file in the directory section). The right one defines what sections you wish to save. The sections are: Timbre temp area - contains the timbres assigned to the eight Parts. Tone temp area - contains the tones assigned to the eight Parts. Tone memory i01-i32 - 32 of the tones stored in the synth's user memory Tone memory i33-i64 - the other 32 tones in user memory Timbre memory Bank A - the 64 timbres in timbre bank A Timbre memory Bank B - the 64 timbres in timbre bank B Patch memory - 128 patches for use in the Performance mode. The reason why the tone and timbre memory have two sections each is to allow the ability to mix and match information between the halves (because they can be saved and retrieved separately). If you save either or both of timbre & tone temporary area, the volume, panpot, master tune and reverb settings will automatically be saved with them. Beside are SAVE and LOAD with three boxes. The top one contains the current file name, the two below the comment areas. The comment areas are for the entering/viewing of comments, if any, about the sound file. The bottom half of the page consists of the directory window. Directories are always listed (they have 'dir' beside them). Click on one to move to another directory. Click on '..' to go to the parent directory. Files that match the file specification (displayed in the middle of the page) and are in the current directory (displayed to the left of the file spec) are listed. To change the file spec, click inside the rectangle and type in the new one. You may use the wildcard characters '*' and '?'. Use BACKSPACE to erase the last character, RETURN when done. Only the file name and extension will be used (e.g. if you specify a drive name in the mask, it will be ignored). The message "Bad file spec" will 8 appear if the file spec is invalid; the previous one will be used instead. If there are more directories and files than can be shown in the window, click on PREV PAGE or NEXT PAGE to see the other directories and files. You may change disk drives by clicking on one of the drive names labelled 'A' through 'D' on the bottom line. If you are accessing a floppy disk, click on the drive name after inserting a different disk, so that its directory will be read. If there are any problems encountered or messages, they will appear in the message window to the right of the file spec, otherwise it will be blank. LOADING A SOUND FILE If you click on a file inside the dir window, the program will check if it is a sound file and if it is not, "Not a sound file" will appear in the message window. Otherwise, the file name and the comments in the file, if any, are displayed in the load area. The sections that the file contains are shown in the check boxes under the 'L'. If you click on LOAD, the computer will read from the disk and send the information to the synth. If successful, the word LOAD will not be highlighted anymore. The section that the computer is currently sending will be highlighted during the duration of the send. SAVING A SOUND FILE To save a configuration, first set the check boxes (by clicking on the boxes or the section names; the boxes will toggle on/off) to the sections to be saved. Next, write any comments into the boxes by clicking inside a comment box (in the SAVE section) and typing in the comments (press BACKSPACE to delete last character, RETURN when finished; a beep will sound if the maximum comment length has been reached). Previous comments will be erased. Finally, click inside the rectangle beside SAVE and enter the file name. The file extension '.D10' will automatically be appended if no extension is specified. If the file name is invalid, the message "Bad file name" will appear, otherwise the current directory will be searched to see if there is a file using the same name. If so, the warning "Name already used" will appear. This file will be replaced if SAVE is performed. Avoid playing on the keyboard while save is occuring since this would add more MIDI traffic and would slow down the SAVE process (and possibly cause a 'Synth not resplying' error because the synth is not able to send the info in the time the computer expects). The sound file will only be saved when SAVE is clicked on; if successful, the word SAVE will not be highlighted anymore. The computer will then read the memory sections from the synth and save it to the file. The sections that the computer is currently 9 reading from synth and writing to disk will be highlighted. If any errors occur, save will be aborted and the incomplete file erased. Click on PANEL to return to the control panel. FILE MESSAGES AND ERRORS There are several other messages that might appear in the message window: "No files or dirs" - no files matched the file specification plus there were no directories "Can't read drive" - there was a problem in trying to read/write from the specified drive (a missing disk or attempting to write on a write protected disk can cause this) "File not found" - the selected file was not found "Can't create file" - the file name is already used and the file could not be overwritten "Not enough space" - ran out of room for the file on the disk "OutOfMem" - ran out of memory for storing the directory; the directory listing will be incomplete "Error during save" - an error occurred during save "Error during load" - an error occurred during load "Synth not replying" - the synth was not responding to a read request "Couldn't change dir" - an error was encountered while trying to change directories 8.2 TIMBRE MAP This is a 'map' of all of the timbres stored in the synth: timbre banks A, B and those of the Parts. Beside the timbre bank/number, the tone referenced by the timbre is shown with its bank (A,B,I,R)/number. 10 If the program has not already read the timbre-tone references, it will do so before displaying this page. There will be short delay as this information is received and organized. You can copy timbres from either the synth's timbre banks OR Parts to other timbre slots OR Parts. To do this, click on a source timbre (the one to be copied) then on a destination timbre. There are no restrictions on which timbres can be source or destination. You can UNDO the most recent change by clicking on UNDO. For the eight Part timbres at the bottom, the tone listed might not necessarily match the current tone for the Part. This means that the tone for the timbre has been changed. Every timbre has a reference to a tone in the synth's memory; this tone reference (as opposed to the actual tone information) is copied to the Part's timbre memory. Once there, the tone can be changed in this temporary area, and thus there may be a discrepancy. Return to the control panel by clicking on ACCEPT. 8.3 CONFIGURATION This page allows you to customize the program. This page will always have fixed colors, but any color changes will affect all other pages and the color sample on the right half of the page. The parameters are: 1) Exclusive Unit# - this has to match the MIDI exclusive unit number which the synth is set to, otherwise the computer cannot communicate with it. If this occurs, press 'MIDI' on the synth then 'DISPLAY down' until the number is displayed to check if it matches. 2) Travel Ratio - this is the ratio of mouse movement to cursor movement. High values mean that the mouse has to be moved considerably for small changes in the cursor's position. 3) Repeat Speed - the speed of increment/decrement on the data sliders. The higher the value, the slower the slider will move when the mouse button is held down at the '<' or '>'. 4) Colors - there are several color parameters. The colors of all pages (except the Configuration page) will be affected. The colors of the sample window in the right half will change, allowing you to judge the color changes. 5) Registration- The registration number will be shown here. To enter it, click inside the rectangle and type it in (using BACKSPACE if necessary), then RETURN. It is recommended that you SAVE to update the config file afterwards. 11 6) User Name - the name of the registered user is entered here (same procedure as above). In the INFO page, the name will be shown. To save these changes, press a button at the word SAVE (on the top line). This will save the configuration to the current directory. If you have saved since entering this page, the word SAVE will not be highlighted anymore. D-10 Control automatically checks for this file, 'D10CTL.CFG', in the current directory when it is run and will automatically read it if found. To change back to the default settings, press a button at the word DEFAULTS. Press ACCEPT to return to the control panel. 8.4 INFO This page displays information about the program and help for the PC keys. If the copy is not registered, a message will appear with registration information. Otherwise, the registration number and the user name will be shown. 8.5 QUIT This exits the program. You must click on either the Q or U to quit; I or T will not quit. 9. PLAYING NOTES FROM THE PC To play notes from the PC keyboard, use the following keys (Q is middle C): 2 3 5 6 7 9 0 = Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ] NOTE: The keys mentioned in this section will only operate when the mouse cursor is present. If keys are pressed when the cursor is absent, they will be processed when the cursor reappears. There are two note modes: MONO and POLY. To change modes, press ~. In MONO, only one note is played at a time; when a new note is sounded, the previous one is turned off. You can use SPACE to turn off the note. 12 In POLY, several notes can be played simultaneously. The NOTE ON/OFF status of each key is toggled every time it is hit. The first press turns the key's note ON, the next one turns it OFF. To change the MIDI channel for the notes from the default 1, press the channel number from the numeric keypad. For channels greater than 8, hold SHIFT down to add 8 to the number pressed (e.g. for channel 10, press SHIFT and 2). You can specify the volume of the notes generated by pressing any of the function keys 1 through 10. The volume will be set to 10 times the function number (e.g. for 50, press F5). The default is 100. To clear all notes on the current channel, press SPACE. To clear all notes on all channels, press ESC. You can specify the octave offset for the note keys. The minus key '-' will shift the notes down one octave until Q is three octaves below middle C. The plus key '+' will shift the notes up one octave until Q is three octaves above middle C. The ENTER key will set Q to middle C. To view the current settings, press BACKSPACE. The settings will be shown in the upper right corner. C is the MIDI channel number, O the offset, and V the volume. The last character is the note mode. Press BACKSPACE again to remove this window. 10. D10TOMID CONVERSION UTILITY This utility creates a MIDI File (Format 1) from a D-10 Control sound file. The MIDI File will contain several tracks of system exclusive messages and comments. The format is: D10TOMID <sound file name> [MIDI file name] [exclusive unit#] The sound file name is compulsory; the other two parameters are optional. If no MIDI file name is specified, it defaults to the sound file name with the extension ".MID". The sound and MIDI file names may include drive and/or directory paths. If no extension is given for the sound file, ".D10" is added. If there is no extension in the given MIDI file, ".MID" is added. Wildcard characters * and ? are not allowed. The third parameter is the system exclusive unit number for the synth (valid range is 17 through 32). The default is 17. 13