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INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS Club70?
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
LEGAL STUFF
GETTING STARTED
RUNNING AMUCK IN THE LAND OF CLUBS
PERFORMANCE EDITING
CHORD GENERATOR
VELOCITY HISTOGRAM
CHAIN EDITING
LIBRARIAN FEATURES
USING MULTIPLE BANKS
TROUBLE SHOOTING
BUGS
ORDERING Club70
INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS Club70?
Symphonic Divisions introduces Club70, a patch editor and librarian
for the Yamaha DTS70 drum trigger system. Club70 runs on the Atari
ST/Mega/TT/Falcon line of computers in either monochrome or color video
modes. The program is tailor designed for the DTS70 and includes several
features which assist the management, editing, and creative process of
using the DTS70 for percussion as well as keyboards.
Club70 enables the user to edit up to two banks at the same time,
and is able to cut, copy, paste, and swap patches between them. The
program aids the percussionist who uses the DTS70 for traditional drum
set applications, as well as the percussionist who uses the DTS70 to
trigger synthesizers in a melodic fashion. With Club70, the user has
total control of editing Performance and Chain patches with a mouse or a
keyboard, and offers several components which enhance the DTS70.
In addition to Performance and Chain editing, Club70 brings out the
melodic side of the DTS70 with its automatic chord generator. This
feature enhances the DTS70's ability to trigger synthesizers by
automatically assigning chords to different pads.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Club70 runs on Atari computers with TOS 1.0 or greater, and requires
at least 1 megabyte of RAM. It operates on a color or a monochrome
system, and will run in any resolution other than ST Low (e.g. ST Medium,
ST High, TT Medium, TT High, etc...).
LEGAL STUFF
CLUB70, CLUB70.PRG, C70DEMO.PRG, CLUB70C.RSC, CLUB70M.RSC,
CLUB70WC.RSC, CLUB70WM.RSC, and this document are copyrighted (c) 1993 -
1994 by Symphonic Divisions. All rights reserved. No portion of the
application, the resource files, or any of the supporting files may be
altered in any way without express written permission from Symphonic
Divisions. The demonstration of Club70 (C70DEMO.PRG) may be freely
distributed, provided that (a) no fee is charged for the software, (b)
this documentation is included with the program, and (c) the
documentation, the resource files, and the program remain unaltered.
Atari, TOS, MultiTOS, and MTOS are trademarks of Atari Corp.
GEM is a trademark of Digital Research Inc.
Geneva is a trademark of Gribnif Software
Yamaha and DTS70 are trademarks of Yamaha Corp.
Symphonic Divisions and Club70 are trademarks of Symphonic
Divisions
GETTING STARTED
After uncompressing CLUB70.LZH, you should have the following files:
C70DEMO.PRG
CLUB70.PRF
CLUB70C.RSC
CLUB70M.RSC
CLUB70WC.RSC
CLUB70WM.RSC
FALCON.PRF
ST.PRF
TT.PRF
If you own an Atari Falcon, delete CLUB70.PRF then rename FALCON.PRF
to CLUB70.PRF. Similarly, if you own an Atari TT, delete CLUB70.PRF then
rename TT.PRF to CLUB70.PRF. If you own an Atari ST, you do not need to
change anything; CLUB70.PRF is exactly the same as ST.PRF.
After the correct preference file (PRF) has been renamed, run
C70DEMO.PRG. After the program loads, an alert dialog will display,
informing you that you are operating a demonstration of Club70, then the
"About Club70..." dialog will be displayed.
At this point, if your DTS70 is not connected via MIDI to your Atari
computer, you should connect it now. Connect the MIDI out of the DTS70
to the MIDI in of the computer and connect the MIDI out of the computer
to the MIDI in of the DTS70.
The next thing you should do is set Club70 to the same MIDI channel
as the DTS70. First, determine what MIDI channel the DTS70 is on. This
can be accomplished by pressing the 'UTILITY' button on the front panel
of the DTS70, then press the 'PAGE DOWN' button. The display on the
DTS70 will also indicate whether or not the unit will respond to Program
Change messages and System Exclusive messages. If either of these
parameters are off, please turn them on now. Next, change the MIDI
channel in Club70 to match the MIDI channel of the DTS70 by selecting
menu item MIDI : Channel... (or by pressing Alt-H) to invoke the "MIDI
Channel" dialog box. At this point, if the MIDI channel in Club70 is not
the same as the DTS70's MIDI channel, press the "Up-Arrow" or the "Down-
Arrow" in the "MIDI Channel" dialog box to increment or decrement the
value, then press the "Accept" button.
You are now ready to receive the contents from the DTS70 to Club70.
Select Menu item MIDI : Receive Bank A (or press Alt-R), then a dialog
will appear indicating the status of the transfer. First, the
Performance patches need to be sent. This can be accomplish by pressing
the 'PAGE DOWN' button on the DTS70 twice, then pressing the 'CURSOR
RIGHT' button, then pressing the '+1/YES' button. Next, the Chain
patches need to be sent (by pressing 'PAGE DOWN', 'CURSOR RIGHT', then
'+1/YES'). VIOLA! The "Receive Status" dialog will be replaced by the
"Bank A" window. For more information on using System Exclusive, please
consult your DTS70's owners manual.
RUNNING AMUCK IN THE LAND OF CLUBS
At this point I would like to point out the disclaimer of this text
file: This file is not intended to be a replacement for the manual that
comes with Club70. Rather, it is intended to get the user familiar
enough with the demonstration of the product to try it out and decide if
they wish to purchase it. Since Club70 is a commercial product (for more
information, see the ORDERING Club70 section), the version that you have
is a CRIPPLED DEMO. The demo contains all of the functionality of the
commercial version, except you can not save banks, transmit banks to the
DTS70, or print, and the chord generator alternates between C3 (60) and
Gb3 (66). With that in mind, let's get started....
PERFORMANCE EDITING
At this point you should still have a bank opened. If not, then
select menu item File : New Bank A (or press ALT-N) to create a new bank.
If Performance #1 is not highlighted, then select it now (by clicking the
mouse on it or using the arrow keys to move to the selection). Now edit
the performance by either:
1) Selecting menu item Edit : Edit...
2) Pressing Alt-E
3) Selecting the "Edit" icon (the fifth icon from the left on the
tool bar)
The "Performance Edit" dialog will then appear. You will notice
that the "Performance Edit" dialog is divided into four parts.
1) The Keyboard (located at the top of the dialog). The keyboard
displays the notes that are assigned to a pad. If one of the
parameters of pad 2 is selected, then the notes of pad 2 are
displayed on the keyboard. If one of the parameters of pad 4 is
selected, then the notes of pad 4 are displayed on the keyboard,
etc...
The keyboard also serves as an input tool. If the selection block
(also known as the 'cursor') is currently located on one of the
notes, then selecting one of the 'notes' on the keyboard will change
the value.
2) Button Box (located beneath the keyboard). This section contains
the Name, ACCEPT, Cancel, Compare, Restore buttons, and the
increment/decrement scroll bar.
3) Parameter Box (located at the bottom of the dialog). This
section contains all of the parameters of a Performance (except for
the Program Change parameters). To select a different parameter,
move the mouse pointer to the object, then click on it. If you
prefer to use the keyboard, you may use the arrow keys to move
around the parameter box. To change the parameter's value, use the
increment/decrement scroll bar (this is the horizontal scroll bar
that is located in the Button Box), or use the plus ('+') and the
minus ('-') keys. To change the range of the pads (e.g. go from
pads 1,2,3 to pads 10,11,12), use the pad scroll bar (this is the
vertical scroll bar that is located on the left side of the
dialog box)