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Sound Edge Application Software
Setting the YAMAHA OPL4 Driver
To use wave data (read by SampleEdit) to produce sound (for example by using the
MIDI soft keyboard or a sequencer), you must select RAM as the sound generator in the
OPL4 Drive Panel window.
1.
In the toolbar of the SampleEdit window, click the OPL4 Driver button [
]. The
OPL4 Drive Panel window appears. You can also open the OPL4 Drive Panel window
from the Control Panel in the Main window in Windows. (See page 14.)
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If the toolbar is not displayed, click [View] in the menubar then [Tool bar] from the pulldown menu. The
toolbar appears.
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2.
Click each [RAM] box to select RAM as the tone generator for each MIDI channel (channels
1 to 16). If necessary, select [ROM] (AWM wave table) or the FM tone generator. Also, if
necessary, adjust the volume levels between ROM and FM.
3.
After finishing the settings, click [OK] to apply the settings or click [Cancel] to cancel the
settings.
1
Ch.:
Lets you choose the tone generator that you
wish to use for each MIDI channel.
2
Type of tone generator.
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- 1
ROM:
AWM Wave table for standard GM.
2
- 2
FM:
2-operator FM tone generator with 128
instrument voices.
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- 3
RAM:
Uses wave tables read by SampleEdit
as tone generators.
3
ALL ON/OFF:
Lets you simultaneously set all the
MIDI channels within the same tone generator to
ON or OFF.
4
Balance:
Lets you adjust the volume balance
between tone generators [PCM (ROM/RAM) and
FM].
5
Wave Boost:
Lets you increase the volume of the
melody part (=8db) and the rhythm part (=10db).
6
Auto Reset:
Lets you reset the MIDI information
each time a sequencer, such as a media player,
stops or pauses.
7
Fast Damp:
Cuts off the last part of a MIDI note
and sounds the following note. You should choose
this when the “note-on” and “note-off” functions are
likely to be interrupted (for example, on a computer
with a slow CPU).
